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Ai Ikeda

Ai Ikeda is a visual artist from Nara, Japan, and based in Montréal, Canada. She holds an MFA from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada, and a BFA from the Kanazawa College of Art in Japan. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally. Ikeda explores social, psychological, ecological, gender, war-related, and nuclear themes from historical, global, and contemporary perspectives across a variety of mediums such as painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, video, animation, ceramic, and installation.

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Art Site

AI IKEDA - ART SITE is the portfolio website of artist Ai Ikeda. This site serves as an introduction to her artworks through six categories: MUTATION, SITES, CRISES, NATURE, ANIMA, ROOTS.

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Repurposing Aesthetics

Works

MUTATION

RADIATION

MUTATION - RADIATION

SITES

SOCIOHISTORY

SITES - SOCIOHISTORY

CRISES

ANTHROPOCENE

CRISES - ANTHROPOCENE

NATURE

ECOLOGY

NATURE - ECOLOGY

ANIMA

COSMOS

ANIMA - COSMOS

ROOTS

REINTERPRETATION

ROOTS - REINTERPRETATION

Creative responses to singular events

Shows

PAST EXHIBITIONS

Salon des Refusés
July 16 - August 29, 2020
Group Exhibition
McBride Contemporain (Montréal, Qc, Canada)

MU - Mutation Ecologies
September 25 - 27, 2019
Solo Exhibition / MFA Thesis Exhibition
MFA Gallery, Concordia University (Montréal, Qc, Canada)

Spoor
December 14 - 19, 2018
Group Exhibition
Pilotenkueche (Leipzig, Germany)

The Day After
December 1 - 2, 2018
Group Exhibition
Das Japanische Haus (Leipzig, Germany)

Speech Bubble
November 23 - 30, 2018
Group Exhibition
Alte Handelsschule (Leipzig, Germany)

Rutschbahn
November 16 - 22, 2018
Group Exhibition
Projektwohnung Krudebude (Leipzig, Germany)

I Accept the Cookies
November 1 - 4, 2018
Group Exhibition
Kunstraum PING•PONG (Leipzig, Germany)

Laboratoire Peinture
May 24, 2018 - July 7, 2018
Group Exhibition
Galerie Deux Poissons (Montréal, Qc, Canada)

Les Temps Mutants
April 26, 2018 - May 29, 2018
Solo Exhibition
Calaboose (Montréal, Qc, Canada)

Concordia's MFA Department of Studio Arts Exhibition, Maureen III
May 9 - 12, 2018
Group Exhibition
The Darling Foundry (Montréal, Qc, Canada)

Stack Effect 9
January 12 - 22, 2018
Group Exhibition / Graduate Students' Association Award Exhibition
Concordia University (Montréal, Qc, Canada)

Nuclear Body
May 18 - 21, 2017
Group Exhibition / Concordia's MFA Department of Studio Arts Exhibition, Maureen II
École des Beaux-arts de Montréal (Montréal, Qc, Canada)

HŌSHANŌ: penser l'après Fukushima /
HŌSHANŌ: Art and Life in a Post-Fukushima World

March 9, 2017 - April 15, 2017
Group Exhibition
Visual Voice Gallery (Montréal, Qc, Canada)

Shadows of Crisis
March 12, 2016
Remembering Fukushima 2016 — 5 ans plus tard
Organizer: Montréal Kizuna (formerly Kizuna Japon)
CLC Montreal (Montréal, Qc, Canada)

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In/visible Matters
March 14 - 15, 2015
International Conference: Rethinking Radiation Ecologies: New Approaches to the History, Epistemology, and Politics of Radioactive Environments
Organizer: Prof. Livia Monnet, Comparative Literature, University of Montreal
University of Montreal (Montréal, Qc, Canada)

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