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Ayame Iizumi

Painter & Artist


Profile

Ayame Iizumi is an artist whose work centers on the theme of life. Through the use of color and bodily expression, she has explored the impulses, dynamism, and invisible forces that underlie living existence.

In recent years, her recent practice has come to focus on prayer as a fundamental human act. Using norito and language as motifs, she extrudes and layers paint to create works in which accumulated strata function both as traces of passing prayer and as sedimentations of time.

Working with text, layers, and emptiness as primary elements, she presents a world in which individual life resonates with a greater continuity of life. Her practice includes painting, live painting, and mural work.



Statement

My practice began with a question: what is life?

Through color and bodily expression, I have continued to explore the impulses and dynamism that life carries within it. Through this process, my work has gradually come to focus on prayer as a fundamental human act.

For me, prayer is not a specifically religious act, but a primal movement through which existence continues to relate to the world. Using norito and language as motifs, I extrude and layer paint in order to materialize this invisible movement.

The layers that appear in my work are traces of passing prayer, and at the same time sedimentations of time. The white emptiness suggests the cosmos, while gold evokes prayer and the radiance of life. Through the interplay of text, layers, and emptiness, individual life and a greater continuity of life resonate within a single pictorial field.

Through making, I seek to quietly offer a sense of human life held within a larger continuity.

Curriculum Vitae

  • 1989
    Born in Ibaraki, Japan

Education

  • 2013
    Dept of Architecture and Design, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
  • 2017
    Dept of Medical nutrition, Teikyo Heisei University, Tokyo
  • 2023
    The training course of Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute inJapan

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2013
    Pepper's Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
  • 2013
    Gallery AORANGI (Tokyo, Japan)
  • 2020
    Gallery Cloud Nine (Ibaraki, Japan)
  • 2021
    Yasuda Memorial Hall (Ibaraki, Japan)
  • 2021
    Gallery jin (Ibaraki, Japan)
  • 2022
    GALLERY AND LINKS 81 (Tokyo, Japan)
  • 2022
    Bar Last Waltz (Ibaraki, Japan)
  • 2022
    GALLERY SAZA (Ibaraki, Japan)
  • 2022
    ISHIGURA Shiten (Ibaraki, Japan)
  • 2023
    G’s Gallery TSUKUBA (Tokyo, Japan)

Art Festivals & Group Exhibitions

  • 2012
    Group Exhibition at 2/20Gallery (New York, USA)
  • 2019
    Group Exhibition at Tsukuba Art Museum (Ibaraki, Japan)
  • 2021
    Art Event & Fair at TOKYO PORTCITY TAKESHIBA (Tokyo, Japan)
  • 2021
    International Art Exhibition at M.A.D.S GALLERY(Milan, Italy)
  • 2022
    Art Festival in Tsukuba(Ibaraki, Japan)
  • 2023
    Group Exhibition at GALLERY AND LINKS 81 (Tokyo, Japan)
  • 2023
    Art Festival in Asahi (Chiba, Japan)

Works & Projects

  • 2012
    Art cooperation for the movie " I just came to Tokyo"
  • 2018
    The Wall Art Project in Tsuchiura
  • 2018
    Performance at TEDxTsukuba2018
  • 2019
    Performance at Ishigura RIZ
  • 2019
    Performance at IBARAKI LIVE ART MEETING 2019
  • 2020
    Performance at IBARAKI LIVE ART MEETING 2020
  • 2023
    Art & Housing Exhibition with Sekisui House, Ltd.
  • 2021-2023
    The Wall Art Project with JAPAN TOBACCO INC. and Mito Station Development Co.,Ltd.