Shigeno Ichimura was born in 1963 in Okinawa, Japan, where his journalist father was relocated for work. Growing up under the U.S. military occupation, he later moved to Tokyo at the age of 11, two years after Okinawa was returned to Japan. Spending his teenage years in Shinjuku, he pursued his artistic aspirations after graduating from university and moved to New York City in 1989 to become an artist, and is currently based in NYC and Tokyo.
Primarily employing a minimalist and abstract approach, Ichimura expresses the relativity of phenomena through several series, revolving around sub-themes such as light, time, relationships, memory, and traces.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1997-99 Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
2003,05 Tower 49 Project, New York, NY
2004 M.Y. Art Prospects, New York, NY Art Installation at St. Peter’s Church, New York, NY
2005-14 Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Relativity of Intimacy” and others.
2016 “Time and Relative” Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
2017 “Relative Relations” SH Art Project, Tokyo
2018 Cassina Ixc. Galleria Cicap – Dell’arte, Tokyo
2020 “Traces of Transience” Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
2022 “People passing by” Gallery Cellar, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
1991 Soho Art House, New York
1995 “NY Soho Biennial”, New York
1998 “Abstraction ’98” The Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY
1999 “New Directions ’99” Barlett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2000 “Emerge 2000” Al Jazeera Contemporary Art Center, Newark, NJ
2000 “Texas National 2000” SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, Texas
2001 “New Directions ’01”, Barlett Art Center, New York
2002 “4th Annual Video Marathon,” Art in General, New York, NY
2002-03 “Small + UGLY” University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
2002-03 “New York Public Library Window Project” (New York, NY)
2003 “On and Off the Wall”, Phillips, New York, NY
2004 “Art Star / Sausage Factory” Debs & Co., New York , NY
2005 “Surface Tension” 2×13 Gallery, New York, NY
2008 “Let There Be Light” Gallery Hangil, Paju, KOREA
2009 “Movement and Expression” Okinawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Okinawa, JAPAN
2019 “20th Anniversary Show”, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York
Awards/Grants
1997 “Texas National 97” 2nd Prize/ Juror: Mike & Doug Stern
2000 “Texas National 2000” Special Prize/ Juror: Art Guy: Michael Galbreath, Jack Massing
2002 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting