Akihito Izumi

Till 2014, I had been working as a office clerk in a Japanese Human Resource Development organization while being active as a professional cartoonist and illustrator. In 2014, I decided to quit the Job and concentrate into making fine art. I had been a self taught artist till then. I decided to go through academic education and studied MA course in a University in UK. After returning to Japan I settled in Kobe and have been active as a visual artist doing exhibitions in a gallery of this area and Tokyo.

2023-2024 Merit Scholarship Recipient The Art Students League of New York
2014-2015 MA Fine Art,
Arts University Bournemouth, United Kingdom
1984-1989 BA Foreign Study (Spanish),
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan

-EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibition
2023 Solo Exhibition, Kitano Terrace, Kobe, Japan
2022 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Shimada, Kobe, Japan
2022 Solo Exhibition, Gekkosou Art Material Shop, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Shimada, Kobe, Japan
2019 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Shimada, Kobe, Japan
2017 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Shimada, Kobe, Japan
2014 Solo Exhibition, Gekkosou Art Material Shop, Ginza,Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibition
2024 The Art Student League Grant and Merit Scholarship Exhibition, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, NY, USA
2016 "Dark side of the Light Night" 104 Duke Street studio,Liverpool, UK
2015 Quay Arts Open 2015, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight, UK