Leiko Ikemura

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Leiko Ikemura (イケムラレイコ Ikemura Reiko?, born August 22, 1951 in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor.

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Leiko Ikemura left her country to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979 she moved to Zurich to live and worked there for 4 years. The first of her mature paintings developed around 1980. Her first solo show in a public institution took place in 1983 at the "Bonn Kunstverein", in Bonn, Germany. That same year she spent as an artist in residency in Nuremberg, (“Stadtzeichnerin” upon invitation of the city of Nuremberg). During the next several years Ikemura had numerous solo shows in galleries and public institutions, among others: 1987 at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Melbourne International Biennial 1999, Japan Pavilion. In 1985 the artist moved to Cologne. Her turn to sculpture began in the year 1987. In the 1990s the female figure crystallized as her main topic for her work during the several years since. In 1991 the artist became a Professor for Painting at the "Universität der Künste" (University of fine Arts) in Berlin.

Leiko Ikemura lives and works in Berlin and Cologne.

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