池谷剛一 

画家・絵本作家・マルチクリエイター

YOSHIKAZU IKEYA

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'91多摩美術大学卒業後、本格的に画家として作家活動開始。99年『そして僕は天使になった』で絵本作家としてデビュー。以降6作の絵本を国内外で出版。現在、絵画や作家活動の一方で子供達とのライブペイント等アートパフォーマンスを全国の幼・保育園を中心に精力的に行う。

主な書籍：そして僕は天使になった　てがみがもしもとどくなら　世界にひとつしかクリスマスツリーがなかったら他　翻訳本：ドイツ語・韓国語・英語他

主な個展：スペース・ユイ、ピンポイント・ギャラリー、パルコ・ギャラリー、三越等

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好きな音楽家

Tom Waits
Otis Redding
Chet Baker
Charles Parker
Jim Jarmusch

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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.

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My favorite list

Tom Waits
Otis Redding
Chet Baker
Charles Parker
Down by Law
Jim Jarmusch