Education:
1987 M.F.A. Painting - University of Colorado, Boulder
1986 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1985 B.F.A. - University of Colorado, Boulder
1978-81 San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
Selected One-person shows:
2009 Voicers - Van Straaten Gallery, Denver
Homare Ikeda - Lanning Gallery, Sedona, AZ
Lines in Space - PlatteForum, Denver
2007 The Transformation of Nature - The Dairy Center of the Arts, Boulder, CO
New Work – Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
Homare Ikeda – Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO
2006 Aki-wo Omou – Bingataya, Tokyo, Japan
Intimate Abstracts: Lanning Gallery, Sedona, AZ
2003 A Walk - Brüggemann Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2001 White Reflection - Brüggemann Contemporary
2000 The Invisible Flight - Brüggemann Contemporary
2000 The Invisible Flight…dialogue to the wind, Ironton Studios & Gallery, Denver
1998 Benighted Time- O’Sullivan Arts Center, Regis University, Denver
Monotypes, The Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1996 Painting & Drawing, The Kiang Gallery
1995 Dream of the Dolphin, Boulder Art Center, Boulder, CO
1994 Contemporaries XIV: Monoprints by Homare Ikeda
The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
1992 Paintings and Monotypes, Mackey Gallery
1991 Paintings and Monotypes, Payton-Rule Gallery, Denver
1988 New Works, Alan Short Gallery, Stockton, CA
1985 Prints, Alan Short Gallery
Selected Group-shows:
2009 Colorado Abstract, Paintings and Sculpture - Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State College of Denver
2008 Interwoven Illuminations - I, Rane Gallery, Taos, NM
Paralleled - The Philip J. Steele Gallery at Rocky Mountain College of Art and design
Nation of Immigrants - Art Students League of Denver
2007 The Art of Printmaking - Republic Plaza, Denver
2006 Extended Remix – Museum of Contemporary Art / Denver
Relief Prints – Open Press Gallery, Denver
Decades of Influence: Colorado 1985 to Present – Museum of Contemporary Art / Denver
2005 On The Mark: Chicago Printmakers Collaborative 1989 ~ 2005,
Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Avenue Galleries,
Current Works from Open Press – Tointon Gallery for the Visual Arts, Greeley, Co.
Master Prints/Master Printmakers, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver
pARTners couples making art – Republic Plaza, Denver, Colorado
Clay, Paper, Paint – Front Range Community College Faculty Exhibition,
Colorado Gallery of the Arts, Littleton, CO
2004 Colorado Artists Explore Nature – 1st Floor Café Gallery within The Children’s Hospital
3 Local Collectors- Highlights from the Brasch, Lehrer and Wenderski Collections,
Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Open Press - A 15-Year Retrospective – Gallery of Contemporary Art,
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Next New American Paintings – Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2003 Relief Printing – Open Press Ltd., Denver
2002 Then there was: Artists Depict Creation
- Arvada Center for the arts and humanities
Once Up On A Space – Carson-Masuoka Gallery, Denver
Colored by Process – Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at
Colorado Springs
Written Image Painted Word – Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, CO
First printmakers invitational: image and meaning
- Art Students League of Denver
2001 Past/Present - Carson-Masuoka Gallery, Denver
Words (with haiku and poems by Mamiko Miura Ikeda)
- Fresh Art Gallery, Denver
2000 artfit.com (an exhibition from the internet) -Twilo, New York City, NY
The Sound of Color - Brüggemann Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
The Book As Art - Boulder Public Library, Boulder
1999 Collide - Emmanuel Gallery
Colorado Abstraction: 1975-1999
- Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
1998 Handling The Evidence - Six Viewpoints +2 -The Invisible Museum, Denver
Stockton National IX - The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA
1995 Pure Painting - Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder
A Gathering of Galleries and Artists
- Arvada Center of the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
1994 Pink, Red & Roses - Pasadena Arts Council Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Monotypes - Grant Gallery, Denver
1992 The Small Masterpiece - Rule Modern and Contemporary, Denver
The Chicago Printmaker Collaborative Exhibition
- NNWAC Gallery, Chicago
1991 Artists For Colorado Youth, <Passage: Art Today>
- Colorado History Museum, Denver
1990 Group Show, Oil on Canvas Gallery, Charlottenlund, Denmark
Group Show - Gallery Sho, San Francisco, CA
Group Show, Yoron Public Library, Japan
Summerudstilling 1990 - Galleri Sct. Agnes, Roskilde, Denmark
Avantiere V - Aula Carolina, Aachen, Germany
1989 Selections from Permanent Collection - Denver Art Museum
A.J.A. 4 - Doizaki Gallery, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, Los Angeles
1988 Contemporary Landscape - Marilyne Pink Fine Art Ltd., Los Angeles
Decadent X - Object Gallery, Chicago, IL
Collector’s Choice - The Art Department Gallery, Denver
Selected Reviews and Publications:
"Homare Ikeda" Homare Ikeda: "Voicers" at
van Straaten Gallery "Listening for Wobble: An Interview with Homare Ikeda" - Contango Magazine, 2009 - Kathleen Cain
at Van Straaten Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Recommendation by Leanne Haase Goebel - Visual Art Source.
by michael paglia
Jan 2010 - art ltd. magazine
"Ikeda displays lighter touch in solo show" - Rocky Mountain News, June 8, 2007 - Mary Voelz Chandler
"Fresh Translations" Westword, June 7 ~ 13, 2007 - Michael Paglia
“Commitment surfaces in art” – Rocky Mountain News, October 11, 2002 – Mary Voelz Chandler
“Abstract Express” – Westword, October 24-30, 2002 – Michael Paglia
New American Paintings – Juried Exhibition in Print, Number 36- The Open Studio Press
“The Linguists” - Go-Go Magazine - May 10-23, 2001, Kimberly Graham
“Rhythmic art: Music is a major influence in work produced by local professor” - Metronorth /Action, March 22-28, 2001 - Tanya Ishikawa
“Art Factory At the Ironton, production is at full capacity” - Westword, June 15 - 21, 2000, Michael Paglia
“Exhibits with a sense of place” - Denver Rocky Mountain News, June 9, 2000, Mary Voelz Chandler
Time Marches On - Westword, September 23-29, 1999, Michael Paglia
Homare Ikeda - ART PAPERS (magazine)- March/April, 1997...Cathy Byrd
Ikeda captures memories of home - The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution, Nov. 15, 1996
Catherine Fox
Pigments of Imagination - Westword, September 6-12, 1995 Michael Paglia
“Pure Painting” exhibit is more medium than technique - Rocky Mountain News, Sep. 17, 1995
Mary Voelz Chandler
“Far from Birthplace, an ocean child makes waves” - Rocky Mountain News, April 2, 1995
Mary Voelz Chandler
“Artist at Work and in Classroom” - Rocky Mountain Jiho, January 11, 1995
“Homare Ikeda / Sangeeta Reddy” - Colorado Arts, July/August 1994 Michael Paglia
“Floating Worlds, Hidden Worlds: The Monotypes of Homare Ikeda” (catalog)-Laura Caruso
“Ikeda” - Southwest Magazine, Spring 1994 Trinidad Gonzalez-High
“Timeless World on Paper” - The Christian Science Monitor, March 3, 1994 Marilyn S. Mason
“Grant Gallery” - Rocky Mountain News, July 4, 1993 Marilyn S. Mason
“Space to Spare” - Westword, June 16-22, 1993 Hart Hill
“The Power of Press” - Westword, July 15-21, 1992 Hart Hill
“Ikeda’s work reflects the exuberance of art” - The Stockton Record, October 30, 1988
Merrill Schleier
“Young Artist’s exhibition reveal his promise” - The Stockton Record, January 13, 1985 Margo Ernst
Experience:
Instructor in Painting and Drawing at the University of Colorado, Boulder –Fall, 2004, 2008, 2009
Instructor in monotype workshop at the Open Press – 1992, 2004 and 2006
Instructor in monotype workshop at Front Range Community College - June ‘99 and September '08
Instructor in basic painting at the University of Colorado, Denver - summer ‘98
Instructor in intermediate painting at the University of Colorado, Boulder -Fall, 1996
Instructor in beginning painting at the Metropolitan State College -Spring ‘95 ~ ‘03
Instructor in drawing and painting at the Front Range Community College -Fall `93~ '07
Visiting Artist at the Freedom’s Trail Elementary School, Fort Carson -1994
Visiting Artist at the Metropolitan State College of Denver, November, '08
Instructor in Print Workshop at Colorado College, May, '08
Instructor in Mixed media Workshop at The University of Northern Colorado, Greeley
Residency:
Artist in Residence - PlatteForum, Denver, CO
Artist in Residence – Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE., 2007
Collection:
Denver Art Museum
Qwest Communications Inc, Denver
Sabichira-kan, Yoron, Japan
Front Range Community College, Westminster
Saks Fifth Avenue, New York
Joël. Atlanta. Georgia
Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center