Akiko Ichikawa is a transdisciplinary artist, editor, and writer-activist based in New York City.
13 Facts About Akiko Ichikawa
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Akiko Ichikawa has written on contemporary art and culture for Flash Art, Art in America, Hyperallergic, and zingmagazine.
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Akiko Ichikawa attended Brown University concentrating in Visual Art under Annette Lemieux, Leslie Bostrom, and Walter Feldman, graduating with honors.
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Akiko Ichikawa moved to New York City four days later, using the award money from the college's Roberta Joslin Art award to pay for her first month's rent on a studio apartment in the East Village.
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Akiko Ichikawa has additionally exhibited her work in The Hague, Berlin, Philadelphia, St Paul, Minnesota, and in Sweden, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
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Akiko Ichikawa has lately turned to Instagram, bought by Facebook in 2012.
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Akiko Ichikawa presented one such piece as her solo exhibition at Momenta Art and another at Andrew Kreps gallery in a group exhibition curated by Dean Daderko, now a curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
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Akiko Ichikawa has written on contemporary art for Flash Art on the work of Ken Lum, Laurel Nakadate, Dan Peterson, Yasue Maetake, and, for NY Arts magazine, the work of British artists Jane and Louise Wilson and for zingmagazine, the work of Iranian-American public artist Siah Armajani.
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In 2015, Akiko Ichikawa wrote about the photography of Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Toyo Miyatake and the Japanese American incarceration for Hyperallergic.
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Akiko Ichikawa wrote about the closing of the Manhattan Tekserve store, the performance by a group of young area Native American musicians at Rutgers University in 2016, and cowrote about the work of young artists of Asian descent in a New York City-based performance art festival the next year.
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Akiko Ichikawa opined to the New York Times on American environmentalist and leader of 350.
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The next year, Akiko Ichikawa wrote on the life of Clyfford Still for Art in America as seen though a documentary released that year on the Abstract Expressionist and on a 2018 performance work by African-American multimedia artist Ama Be.
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Akiko Ichikawa's younger sister, Yoko, is an Oakland, California-based part-time graphic designer, dance instructor, and microblogger.