Akiko Ichikawa

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Akiko Ichikawa
Born Sagamihara, Japan
Alma mater Brown University
Awards Djerassi Artists Residency; Artists Space Independent Project Grant

Akiko Ichikawa (アキーコー・イチカワ also 市川 明子 Ichikawa Akiko?) is a New York-based interdisciplinary visual artist and writer. She has exhibited her work in The Hague, Berlin, Washington D.C., Newark, St. Paul, Minnesota, and Incheon, South Korea, as well as in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx.[1][2] She has also written for Flash Art, Hyperallergic, and Zing Magazine and for several art catalogues.

Early life and education

Her family moved to the US, San Francisco, when she was three. She grew up in the suburbs of Boston and Nashville, and attended Brown University and Hunter College's MFA program, graduating from the former with honors. She currently lives and works in New York City.[3][4]

Work

Her concept-based work exists in the forms of performance art, installation art[5] and net.art. Her performance work[3][6] include a series of site-specific gifting performances called Limited, Limited Edition she has presented at Socrates Sculpture Park, in Long Island City, Queens;[7] in Jamaica, Queens; at the Incheon Women Artists' Biennale in Incheon, South Korea;[8] at On Stellar Rays gallery in the Lower East Side; in three locations in Newark, New Jersey for Aljira Center for Contemporary Art,[9] in a school yard in East Harlem; and on H Street NE in Washington D.C.[10] For Bad Kanji, a 2015 piece, she painted temporary kanji tattoos at the Spring/Break Art Show, held in the historic office spaces above the James A. Farley Post Office in New York City.[11]

She also sees herself as a historian and has performed two of Fluxus-member Alison Knowles's event scores, namely #5 Wounded Furniture and #3 Nivea Cream Piece.[10][12] The latter was live-blogged on Hyperallergic.[13]

In addition to an early Internet art that simulates a series of imagined but impractical art installations, Ichikawa has created has a series of blogs on Facebook around food organized by color, touching upon issues of cultural identity, food sourcing, gentrification patterns, and environmentalism while addressing nutrition and greenwashing: I ♥ Yellow Food, I ♥ Orange Food, I ♥ Red Food, I ♥ Green Food, and I ♥ Blue Food.[14][15][16][17] While not enthusiastic about Facebook's history of massive online-privacy violations and its agreement to carry the 2016 Republican National Convention, the artist nevertheless views the social media site as the most effective, user-friendly way to include as many participants as possible.

Ichikawa's art before 2005 was primarily built around the placement and assembly of basic construction materials in open spaces. She presented one such installation for her solo exhibition at Momenta Art[18][19][20] and another at Andrew Kreps gallery in a group exhibition curated by Dean Daderko, now a curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.[21]

Art writing

She has written on contemporary art for Flash Art, the Milan-based art magazine, on the work of Ken Lum, Laurel Nakadate, Dan Peterson and, for NY Arts magazine, the work of Jane and Louise Wilson[22] and for Zing Magazine, the work of Siah Armajani.[23][24]

In 2015, she wrote about the photography of Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Toyo Miyatake and the Japanese American incarceration for Hyperallergic.[25][26]

Awards

Family

Her younger sister, Yoko Ichikawa, is an Oakland, California-based graphic designer who teaches part-time at San Francisco's Academy of Art University,[27] and her younger brother, Rocksmith streetwear founder and president, Kenshin Ichikawa.[28][29] Yoko is a graduate of Wesleyan University, Kenshin a graduate of Columbia University, and married to food writer Nina Fallenbaum.[30]

Notes

  1. ↑ Biography artfacts.net
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. ArtSlant, Inc.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ PERFORMA05: Akiko Ichikawa biography Performa 05 website
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ [1] Exhibition Tuning, Incheon Women Artists' Biennale
  9. ↑ http://aljira.org/exhibitions/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Performance links, artist's website
  11. ↑ http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150305/midtown/super-trippy-art-show-takes-over-post-offices-main-branch
  12. ↑ Alison Knowles website, list of event scores
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/groups/37319836273?ap=1
  15. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/?sk=group_305375342285
  16. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/?sk=group_130274470385404
  17. ↑ Ichikawa's Internet art on Rhizome
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ [2] Re-title.com
  20. ↑ list of installation work on older version of the artist's site
  21. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  22. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  23. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  24. ↑ Links to writing, artist's website
  25. ↑ http://hyperallergic.com/204807/the-images-and-stories-of-japanese-american-internment/
  26. ↑ http://hyperallergic.com/229260/how-the-photography-of-dorothea-lange-and-ansel-adams-told-the-story-of-japanese-american-internment/
  27. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  28. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  29. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  30. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

See also

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