Ikeda was born in Hokkaido in 1978. In 2006 he graduated from the Graduate School of Art and Design, Musashino Art University, with a Masters degree in painting. Major solo exhibitions include Generating void (2007), Floating Density (2009) at ShugoArts. Major group exhibitions include Four Artists Show at ShugoArts (2006); VOCA 2007 at the Ueno Royal Museum (received Encouragement Award); Three Artists Show – The Source of Sensibility at Kida Kinjiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido (2007); Born in Hokkaido: Fruit of the Earth, Man and Art at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (2007); NEOTENY JAPAN Contemporary Artists after 1990 from Takahashi Collection at Kirishima Open-Air Museum and other venues (2008); Garden of Painting – Japanese Art of the 00s at The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2010); and Art in an Office at Toyota Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi (2011).

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