etsuko ichikawa
Born in Tokyo, Japan Resides in Seattle, WA
EDUCATION
1993,1994,2000
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1991-1992 Tokyo Glass Art Institute, Kanagawa
1984-1987 BFA in Painting, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2009 Trace, Randall Scott Gallery, Washington D.C.
Moment/Memory, PRISM Contemporary Glass, Chicago, IL
Deai, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2008-2009 Traces of the Molten State, Bellevue Arts Museum, curated by
Stefano Catalani, Bellevue, WA
2008 Ephemeral Eternal, Davidson Contemporary, Seattle WA
2007 Fluid Moment, Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2006 breath-memory, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 Funiki: Floating Feelings, Viveza Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 Kokoro, In-Between, Amada Luna, Seattle, WA (collaboration with performers
and DJ)
Shadow Installation, Kirkland Arts Center Gallery, Kirkland, WA
Kokoro, In-Between, Gallery Mohri, Tokyo
Kokoro, In-Between, ArtStage, Kirkland Performance Center, Kirkland, WA
TWO-THREE
PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009 Energy Made Visible with Andrea Cote, Tarryn Teresa Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
2008 Marked with Chad Brown, curated by Jerry Misko, Dust Gallery, Las
Vegas, NV
2007 Vestiges with Jeff Wallin, Function+Art, Chicago, IL
Mark with Gary Weidner, Randall Scott Gallery, Washington D.C.
2006 nooksandcrannies with Julie Custer and Marc Dombrosky, SOIL Gallery,
Seattle, WA
Contemporary Sculpture with Nori Morimoto and Norie Sato, Catherine Person
Gallery, Seattle, WA
1985 Two Persons Show with Hiroyuki Okuno, Kuryua Art Spot, Tokyo
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 The East and The East, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Dualities, curated by Jess Van Nostrand and Barbara Shaiman, Cornish Gallery
and SAM Gallery, Seattle, WA
35th Anniversary Cerebration, SAM Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 Postcards From the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, New York City
Filter, curated by Michelle Kumata and Heinrich Toh, Kirkland Art Center,
Kirkland, WA
Full Spectrum, PF Galleries, Clawson, MI
START, PRISM Contemporary Glass, Chicago, IL
2006 Structure, SAM Gallery, Seattle, WA
Hardline Organics, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
Impressed, Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA
2005 Found in Translation, TORA Gallery, Mount Vernon, WA
SOIL 1995-2005: A Retrospective, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
Raw & Refined, curated by Jess Van Nostrand, Bumbershoot, Seattle
Center, Seattle, WA
Unearthing, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Contemporary: Urban Art Installations, Woolworth Building, Tacoma,
WA
2004 Members Exhibition, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA (also
in 2003, 2002)
She Stole the Show, curated by Jess Van Nostrand, Capitol Hill Arts Center,
Seattle, WA
Artist in Residence Exhibition, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2003 Bemis Fall Art, juried by Robert Brunz, Bemis Building, Seattle,
WA
LELA, The Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Scholarship Exhibit, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Friends of Tino, Galerie Moto, Hachioji, Japan
2002 APEX in L.A., 10th International Art Festival, Angels Gate Culture
Center Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2000 Chromosome and Concerning the Angels, Cold Rainier Building, Seattle,
WA
1995 Clouds, Galerie Vromans, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1987 Senior Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
Senior Exhibition, Tokyo Central Museum of Arts, Tokyo
1984 Subaru Mandoki Soba Hachigo, Gallery Parerugon, Tokyo
ART
FAIRS
2008 Art Miami with Randall Scott Gallery, Miami, FL
Aqua Art Miami with SOIL, Miami Beach, FL
2007 Aqua Art Miami with Luis De Jesus Seminal Projects and Randall Scott
Gallery, Miami, FL
Bridge Art Fair with Randall Scott Gallery, London
Bridge Art Fair with AM projects, Chicago, IL
artDC with Randall Scott Gallery, Washington D.C.
2006 Aqua Art Miami with SOIL, curated by Jess Van Nostrand, Miami Beach,
FL
2005 Aqua Art Miami with SOIL, Miami Beach, FL
COLLECTIONS
Microsoft Art Collection
Washington State Public Arts Commission
King County Portable Art Collection
PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE COMMISSIONS
2008 Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
Covington Middle School, Vancouver, WA, commissioned by Washington State
Arts Commission
Rising Stars Card Project, commissioned by Till Richter, independent curator
in Austin, TX
2007 Four Seasons Hotel, Hong Kong
2006 Hotel Lisboa, Macau
2005 Miwa residence, Hokkaido, Japan
2004 Hinode Industrial Arts, Hokkaido, Japan
CRAVE Restaurant, Seattle, WA
2003 Trinidad Residence, Bellevue, WA
1994 Ishiyama Residence, Saitama, Japan
AWARDS
AND RECOGNITION
2008 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY
GAP (Grants for Artist Projects), Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
Individual Projects Grant, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
Media Literacy Scholarships, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Special Projects Grant, Bellevue Arts Commission, Bellevue, WA
2007 Nominated for Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Portland Art Museum,
Portland, OR
Finalist for Welcome Hall Permanent Public Art Commission, Wing Luke Asian
Museum, Seattle, WA
2006 Jon and Mary Shirley Glass Scholarship, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle,
WA
CityArtist Projects Grant, City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Cultural
Affairs, Seattle, WA
2006, 2005 Arts Special Projects Grant, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2005 EDGE Professional Development Program scholarship for Visual Artists,
Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
2003, 2002 PONCHO Artist-in-Residence Program Award, Pratt Fine Arts Center,
Seattle, WA
2002 George Tsutakawa Memorial Scholarship in Sculpture, Pratt Fine Arts
Center, Seattle, WA
SCENIC
DESIGN
2007, 2006 Cuckoo Crow, for Degenerate Art Ensemble, The Moore Theatre
and Bagley Wright Theatre, Seattle, WA, and REDCAT, CalArts Theater, Los
Angeles, CA
1985 Golden Soybeans, Theater Alice, Tokyo
RELATED
EXPERIENCE
2008 Lecturer, DigiPen Institute, Redmond, WA
Lecturer, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
Visiting Artist, Hot Shop at Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA (also in 2005,
2004)
Guest Speaker, Art Table, Seattle, WA
2007 Panelist, Public Art Programs for City of Seattle, Office of Arts
& Cultural Affairs, Seattle, WA
2005-present Member, SOIL Artists Collective, Seattle, WA
2005 Lecturer, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Juror, Scholarship submissions for Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
2004 Lecturer, North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA
2002 Visiting Artist, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1995-2003 Exhibitions and Projects Coordinator for Asia for Dale Chihuly,
Chihuly Studio, Seattle, WA
SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Judith Van Praag, Hot Molten Glass ‘Brushwork’ Amazes Bellevue
Art Goers, International Examiner, December 2008
Plumbing the Subconscious, NY Arts Magazine, September-October 2008 issue
Regina Hackett, At BAM, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 24, 2008
Art Zone in Studio with Nancy Guppy, Seattle Channel (ch.21), aired on
October 9, 2008
Lee Fehrenbacher, Playing with Fire, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, October
2008 issue
Rachel Shimp, Artist Etsuko Ichikawa: Inviting contemplation with "pyrographs",
The Seattle Times, October 3, 2008
Taking Root in America: The Art of Etsuko Ichikawa, Bellevue Television
(ch.28), aired in October 2008
Kristen Peterson, Marking moments in time in two styles, Las Vegas Sun,
July 24, 2008
Aurora Sculpture, YES TV, produced by Evergreen Public Schools, aired
on May 6, 2008
Rachel Chambers, Living Images: Etsuko Ichikawa’s Ephemeral Eternal,
ArtCulture, May 14, 2008
F. Lennox Campello, ArtDC delivers more than expected, Mid Atlantic Art
News, April 30, 2007
Adriana Grant, Not Pyromaniacal Art, Seattle Weekly, April 4, 2007, page
29
Sarah Dahnke, Eye Exam, Newcity Chicago, February 14, 2007
Margery Gordon, Art Basel Miami: Offbeat Highlights from the Fair Trail,
ArtInfo, January 8, 2007
Sue Peters, Recaps the Year in Art, Seattle Art Blog, December 28, 2006
Rosemary Ponnekanti, Hardline Organics, Part 2, The News Tribune, June
26, 2006
Jen Graves, nooksandcrannies, The Stranger, May 5, 2006
Matthew Kangas, A delightful show of team spirit at SOIL, Catherine Person
galleries, The Seattle Times, January 20, 2006
Rachelle Robinett, Viveza featured ‘floating feelings’, The
Daily, University of Washington, April 8, 2004
Regina Hackett, A moment with…Etsuko Ichikawa, artist, Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
Saturday October 4, 2003, Sec A1& A11
Itsuro Yoneyama, Etsuko Ichikawa: Kokoro, In-Between at Gallery Mohri,
Topics, Tokyo Zokei University, April 2003
Akiko Yoshimoto, Theme is Kokoro, The Yomiuri America, April 5, 2003,
Section 2, Page 12
Dream Challenger, 27 hours television, TV Asahi, aired October 1997
SELECTED
PUBLICATION
Traces of the Molten State, self-published DVD, video & editing by
Etsuko Ichikawa, music by Tobin Buttram, 2008
SOIL 2008, essay by Jill Conner, published by SOIL, 2008
Studio Visit volume 2, juried by Michael Lash, published by The Open Studios
Press, 2008
One Shot 2006, published by Visual Codec, April 2007
SOIL 2006, essay by Greg Bell, published by SOIL, 2006, Page 18-19
breath-memory, self-published DVD, video & editing by Ian Lucero,
music by Golden Climax Twins, 2006
SOIL Artist-Run Gallery 1995-2005, published by SOIL, essay by Jess Van
Nostrand, 2005
Raw & Refined, Exhibition Catalogue, 2005, Page 14-15
etsuko ichikawa DEAI, self-published DVD, video & editing by Joe Randazzo,
footage from residency at Museum of Glass, August 2005
LELA, Exhibition Catalogue, 2003, Page 15
APEX in L.A., Exhibition Catalogue, 2002, Page 130
New Glass Review 17, published by The Corning Muse