Education
| 2011 | Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, Emerging Artist Overseas Study Grant recipient (Vancouver, Canada) |
| 2000 | MFA in design, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1998 | BFA in Design, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 | “Flowers from the Wreckage” Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa Cleveland), Ohio, USA |
| 2023 | “Flowers from the Wreckage” Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada “Point of view: Manabu Ikeda and the animals” TAQUA, Saga, Japan |
| 2018 | “Animals” The Kagura Salon Ise-Jingu Shrine (Geku), Mie, Japan |
| 2017 | IKEDA Manabu The Pen －Condensed Universe Saga Prefectural Museum traveled to 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa / Takashimaya Nihombashi, Tokyo |
| 2016 | The Kagura Salon Ise-Jingu Shrine (Geku), Mie Ikeda Masterwork unveiling, Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin, U.S.A |
| 2014 | Genten, Gallery Kart, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2013 | Meltdown, West Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, Canada |
| 2010 | Focus, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 | The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano, Japan |
| 2008 | Ikeda Manabu, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006 | Landscape, MIZUMA ACTION, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2004 | Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2001 | Ginza Surugadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | “A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo “Fellow Travelers of the Canvas: A Perspective on Contemporary Art of Japan from the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection”, Yamagata Museum of Art, Japan |
| 2023 | “Edge of SAGA art” Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Japan “Katsuhiko Motono Collection” Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Japan |
| 2022 | “OKADA Saburosuke and Excellent Selections Related to Saga Focusing on the collection of the Saga Prefectural Art Museum” Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan “Microscope / Telescope – Art Near and Far” Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Japan |
| 2021 | “Kyushu-Yoga II: The Power of the Blackish Soil” Kurume City Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan “Saga Bank Cultural Foundation 30th Anniversary : New face Award Exhibition” Saga Prefectural Museum, Japan “Shikkai” Nihombashi Takashimaya S.C. Art Gallery, Tokyo / traveled to 4 other venues, Japan “Takeshi Kaneko and 30 Artists exhibition” The Saga University Art Museum, Japan |
| 2020 | “Uninterrupted Wander” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Within Sight” Mizuma, Kips & Wada Art, New York, U.S.A. “Collection: A Story Inspired by Seas” Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Japan “Enku Grand Award Exhibition” The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu |
| 2019 | “In-Between Land” Mizuma, Kips & Wada Art, New York, U.S.A. “Takahashi Collection” Tsuruoka Art Forum, Yamagata, Japan “SUKIKEI / NEW VIEW” Hankyu Umeda Main Store, Hankyu Umeda Gallery, Osaka, Japan travelled to Fukuoka, Tokyo (-2020) |
| 2018 | Animals, The Kagura Salon Ise Gekumae, Mie, Japan 温故維新(Onkoishin) – Art and Technique, Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Saga Prefecture, Japan |
| 2017 | Japan – Sprits of Nature, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Sweden |
| 2015 | Cosmos / Intime - The Takahashi Collection, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Obuse Museum Collection Exhibition, The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano, Japan |
| 2014 | Takahashi Collection – Mindfulness!, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan Garden of Unearthly Delights: Works by Ikeda, Tenmyouya & teamLab, Japan Society, New York City, New York, USA 「Impacts! 勢み」Japan Art Festival, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art × Mizuma Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 2013 | DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2013, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan IKEDA Manabu Exhibition, G-tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Ikeda Manabu & Tenmyouya Hisashi, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
| 2012 | Art and Air, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan ZIPANGU: The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan (traveled to: Takasaki Museum of Art, Gunma; Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan 2013) |
| 2011 | ZIPANGU - 31 spirited artists cutting through new territories of Japanese contemporary art, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Takashimaya Osaka, Japan and Takashimaya Kyoto, Japan) Moscow Biennale, ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow, Russia Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, Japan Society, New York City, New York, USA |
| 2010 | TDW-ART Jalapagos, Meiji Jingu Gaien Environmental Design Tent, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan 2011) |
| 2009 | KAMI. Silence - Action. Japanese Contemporary Art on Paper, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany |
| 2008 | neoteny japan - From Takahashi Collection, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan (traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Hokkaido, Japan; Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan; The Museum of Art Ehime, Ehime, Japan) ORDER RECEIVED, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Great New Wave: Contemporary Art from Japan, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada Re-Imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Another landscape: from Mori Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2007 | Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves, ZKM|Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany Collector’s choice: Collection 2, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea 10th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2006 | ALLLOOKSAME? ARTCHINAJAPANKOREART, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy |
| 2005 | Since 1994 - Mizuma Art Gallery the 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2004 | KOTATSU-HA 2, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | Hasegawa Space Concept Company, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2001 | Expression to the next generation vol.9, The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano, Japan |
| 1999 | Expression to the next generation vol.7, The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano, Japan |
| 1998 | Expression to the next generation vol.6, The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano, Japan |
Awards
| 2019 | The 10th Enku Grand Award, Enku Award |
| 2014 | The 25th Takashimaya Art Award |
| 2007 | The 10th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Shortlisted |
| 2001 | The 4th Hamamatsu Nationwide Public Exhibition of Painting, Great Prize Award for Young Artist by Cultural Foundation, Saga Bank |
| 1998 | Design Award for Graduation Project, Tokyo University of the Arts Hirayama Ikuo Grant, Tokyo University of the Arts |
Museum Collections
| Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano, Japan Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
Public Collections
| The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, Shizuoka Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin, U.S.A Saga Prefectural Art Museum |
