TATSUO IKEDA
池田 龍雄
| 1928 | Born in Saga, Japan |
| 1948 | Enrolled at Tama College of Fine Arts (now Tama Art University). Participated in the avant-garde art movement "Seiki no Kai (Century Society)" alongside Taro Okamoto, Kiyoteru Hanada, and Kobo Abe. |
| 1950 | Co-founded the "Producers’ Roundtable with On Kawara. |
| 1954 | Gained attention when Kobo Abe introduced his work "Amimoto", exhibited at the Yomiuri Independent Exhibition. |
| 2011 | Appeared in the art documentary film "ANPO." |
| 2020 | Passed away from aspiration pneumonia at the age of 92. |
Exhibitions at FUMA Contemporary Tokyo |
BUNKYO ART
| 2025 | Shigeo Ishii "Perfect Crime: Black Painting" + Tatsuo Ikeda, On Kawara |
| 2017 | Japanese Avant Garde 1950-1970 + Contemporary Art |
| 2017 | 35th Gallery Anniversary Tatsuo Ikeda Exhibition |
| 2014 | "Works on Paper: Collection" |
| 2013 | Boiling: 1950s / ’60s A Cross-Section of Japanese Art |
| 2009 | Artists Shuzo Takiguchi Loved |
| 2006 | Collection Exhibition |
| 2006 | A Hole Beneath the Roots — The 1950s and 60s |
| 2005 | Shigeo Ishii / Tasuo Ikeda ― The 1950s and 60s |
| 2002 | The M Collection Exhibition |
| 2002 | Museum Piece Class Collection Exhibition ― The 1950s and 60s |
| 2002 | Shigeo Ishii / Tasuo Ikeda Drawing on paper ― The 1950s and 60s |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2025 | "Collection 1" The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| 2025 | "Collection Exhibition 2025-Ⅰ" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 2025 | MOT Collection 30th Anniversary Exhibit "Nine Profiles: 1935→2025" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo |
| 2024 | "The Possiilities of Linear Expression" The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| 2024 | "Tatsuo Ikeda 1986-88" Galerie Tokyo Humanité |
| 2023 | "Tatsuo Ikeda - The artist who fights and plays" Saga Prefectural Art Museum |
| 2022 | "Tasuo Ikeda: BRAHMAN" Fergus McCaffrey Tokyo |
| 2021 | "Between Collectivism and Individualism - Japanese Avant Garde in the 1950s and the 1960s" Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw |
| 2020 | "Collection: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Japan" The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| 2019 | "Tatsuo Ikeda - Position of Place" Tokyo Art Museum |
| 2018 | "Ikeda Tatsuo: An Elliptical Visionary" Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 2017 | "Tatsuo Ikeda: The Universe Within a Box" Galerie Tokyo Humanité |
| 2016 | "ECCE HOMO –The Human Images in Contemporary Art-" The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| 2014 | "We Are Real 1920s-1950s" Musashino City Kichijoji Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 2013 | "Tatsuo Ikeda - Drawing the Phases of Place" Galerie Tokyo Humanité |
| 2012 | "Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde" Museum of Contemporary Art, New York |
| 2012 | "Portrait ★ 2012 -New portraits and small works by 9 artists-" Gallery 58, Tokyo |
| 2012 | "10th Art Program Ome 2012" Ome Municipal Museum Of Art, Tokyo |
| 2012 | "Tatsuo Ikeda Exhibition" Maruki Gallery For The Hiroshima Panels, Saitama |
| 2010 | "Collection 3 Japanese Art 1950-2010" The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| 2010 | "Avant garde ★ R70 Exhibition -No entries under age 70 · New works only-" Gallery 58, Tokyo |
| 2010 | "IKEDA TATSUO The Trajectory of Postwar Avant-garde Art" Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art |
| 2010 | "IKEDA TATSUO The Trajectory of Postwar Avant-garde Art" Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki |
| 2010 | "IKEDA TATSUO The Trajectory of Postwar Avant-garde Art" Yamanashi Prefetural Museum of Art |
| 2009 | "Tatsuo Ikeda Exhibition" Galerie Tokyo Humanité |
| 2008 | "Collection 3" The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| 2007 | "The 30th Anniversary: Collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka" The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| 2006 | "IKEDA Tatsuo New Works 2006" Galerie Tokyo Humanité |
| 2005 | "Collection 3" The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| 2005 | "Drifting Objects of Dreams - The collection of Shuzo Takiguchi" Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 2004 | "Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo |
| 2004 | "IKEDA Tatsuo New Works 2004" Galerie Tokyo Humanité |
| 2003 | "The Power of Kyushu : World Art Born on the Island of Kyushu" Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto |
| 2001 | The 21st Exhibition Homage to Shuzo Takiguchi Tastuo Ikeda "Drift Ashore" Satani Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2001 | "IKEDA Tatsuo New Works - 24 HEADS" Galerie Tokyo Humanité |
| 2000 | "Homage to Taro Okamoto from seven artists" Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki |
| 1999 | "Tatsuo Ikeda" Galerie Tokyo Humanité |
| 1998 | "To and From Shuzo Takiguchi" The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| 1998 | "Art and Dance by Hijikata Tatsumi" IKEDA Museum of 20th Century Art, Shizuoka |
| 1997 | "The 20th Anniversary Exhibition From The Permanent Collection" The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| 1997 | Art of Nerima '97 "Tasuo Ikeda and Hiroshi Nakamura Exhibition" Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 1995 | "Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years" Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo |
| 1992 | "Japanese Modern Art 1945-1985" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
| 1990 | "Figures in Contemporary Art From the Collection of The National Museum of Art, Osaka" Kintetsu Art Hall, Osaka |
| 1988 | "REPORTAGE ART in JAPAN" Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 1988 | "Sōzu Exhibition" INAX Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1987 | "Tatsuo Ikeda Exhibition: Series 'Brahman' Chapter 9 Flexure 1986-1987: Post-war works 1951-1969" Galerie Tokyo Humanité |
| 1986 | "Japon des avant gardes 1910-1970" Centre Pompidou, Paris |
| 1985 | "Reconstructions：Avant−GardeArt in Japan 1945−1965" Modern Art Oxford, UK |
| 1985 | "The World of Ikeda Tatsuo" IKEDA Museum of 20th Century Art, Shizuoka |
| 1982 | "Art Critic Takiguchi Shūzō and His Favorite Postwar Arts" Museum of Modern Art, Toyama |
| 1981 | "1950s Exhibition" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
| 1954 | The first solo exhibition at Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo |
Public Collections
National Museum of odern Art, Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo; Yamanashi Prefetural Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, Toyama; Saga Prefectural Art Museum; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Nogoya City Art Museum; Fukuoka Art Museum, etc.
