池谷剛一
YOSHIKAZU IKEYA
artist name: YOSHIKAZU IKEYA (b.1969 -)
Picture book artist,story teller,artist.
Born in Tokyo/Japan, grown up in Japan,
artist name: YOSHIKAZU IKEYA (b.1969 -)
Picture book artist,story teller,artist.
Born in Tokyo/Japan, grown up in Japan,
After graduated from Tama University of Arts, he started his professional career as an artist, concentrating on conceptual expression of walls and daily life as his thesis.
His debuts as a picture book writer/artist is THEN, I BECAME AN ANGEL in1999 (Japan only). He has published six picture books in Japanese.
Exhibitions as an artist:Space yui, Pinpoint Gallery, Parco Gallery, Mitsukoshi and others.
He's been actively performing live paintings, in collaboration with various musicians and different kinds of other performers. Gifu Prefecture Aquarium,Aoyama Book Center and many other places. He does reading events for children and their parents all over Japan.
My favorite list
Tom Waits
Otis Redding
Chet Baker
Charles Parker
Down by Law
Jim Jarmusch
A B O U T
Then I became an angel