Ikegawa Shiro

Japanese

1933

Shiro Ikegawa was born in 1933, in Tokyo. He studied art in Japan and moved to Los Angeles in 1956 where he hoped to study Abstract Expressionism. He attended Otis Art Institute, earning an M.F.A. in 1961. Ikegawa works primarily in printmaking, which is often 3 dimensional. But he is also an accomplished painter, working with large acrylic and collages. His work has been included in dozens of exhibitions throughout the country, including the Whitney Museum in New York, Brooklyn Museum in New York, National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and LA County Museum of Art in California. He was an assistant professor of art at Pasadena City College (1961-67) and Cal State University, L.A. (’67-’76) and has taught at Otis Art Institute, Chouinard Art School, Cal. State Univ., San Francisco, UC Berkeley, Vancouver School of Art and Parsons School of Design, among others.