> STATEMENT
BIO
ICHIRO IRIE
Curriculum Vitae
Born in Tokyo, Japan, 1969
Raised in Los Angeles, CA from 1971
Lives in Mexico City from 2001 to 2006
Currently Lives in Los Angeles
Education
2001 Claremont Graduate University, Department of Visual Art, MFA
1994 UCSB University of California, Santa Barbara, Film Studies & Communications Studies (double major), BA
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Chacharama La Estacion gallery, Chihuahua
Ahokusai 1.2.3. Upfront Gallery, Ventura, CA
2005 Ultraman Encyclopedia O-Itatti gallery, Mexico City
2004 Ultraman Encyclopedia La Estacion gallery, Chihuahua
2001 KOMA East Gallery, Claremont, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 SMC Art Faculty Exhibit Barret Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Panopti(con) Bank Gallery, Los Angeles
Plush Eagle Rock Arts Center, Los Angeles
2007 Quotidian Inc. Upfront Gallery, Ventura, CA
Ah-peh-jee-doh Eagle Rock Arts Center, Los Angeles
Mexico City 2001-2006 McNish Gallery, Oxnard, CA
La Estacion exhibit ArtLA, Los Angeles
Mexico City 2001-2006 McNish Gallery, Oxnard, CA
2006 Kunsthaus exhibit Art Americas, Miami
La Estacion exhibit MACO Art Fair, México City
2005 La Estacion exhibit MACO Art Fair, Mexico City
Group Show La Estacion gallery, Chihuahua
Cheap & Chic O-Itatti, Mexico City
Aca en el rancho grande Cuatro Diecisiete gallery, Madrid
Something in the Air Interim Projekte, Offenbach, Germany
Photography Group Show Grissell Villasana, León, Gto., Mexico
2004 Blind Date CSW Museum, Warsaw
Summer Collection Casa Lamm, Mexico City
Science Fiction/Horror Sublime Art & Idea, Mexico City
2003 Ladicado MUCA Roma, Mexico City
3 Painters 2102 gallery, Los Angeles
2002 Recuperation Room Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City
Reality & Desire Chopo Museum, Mexico City
Medium Rare Garash gallery, Mexico City
Valedictories Raid Projects, Los Angeles
2001 Travelogue Gallery Cradle, Yokohama
Metropoly Hatch gallery, Los Angeles
P.J. Crazyspace, Santa Monica, CA
2000 Synopsis Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Dislocation Kyuubidou Gallery, Tokyo
GCC: IGS World Trade Center, Osaka
Lying Totem Hatch, Los Angeles
Execution Funk Track 16 gallery, Santa Monica
1999 Venice Vortex Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Exhibitions as Cacahuates Japoneses
2008 Laugh Track Yum 21C, Brussels Biennial Off Program
2007 Isolation/Expansion Xit Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cookie Party 100 Empathy Design Company
2006 S.O.S./Emergencia FAME Video Festival, Mexico D.F.
Stil Biuti CSW Museum, Warsaw
Buscando un lugar no conquistado/Coleccion Lupita O-Museum, Tokyo
Ruangrupa, Jakarta
Bedah Video, Bandung, Indonesia
Soemardja Gallery, Bandung
Videolab Space, Bandung, Indonesia
Festival de arte emergente, Mendoza, Argentina
Studio RAW, Bel Horizonte, Brasil
Museo Marte, San Salvador, El Salvador
ONG Espacio, Caracas, Venezuela
2005 Sabados Memories Art2102, Los Angeles
Ampliando el campo de batalla Sector Reforma, Guadalajara
Taste Test LAC gallery, Mexico City
Chachamaco LAC, Mexico City
Conciencia Concentrica Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City
Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
Centro Cultural Espana Cordoba
2004 ASAP with Bordermates Daimler Chrysler, Mexico City
2003 Raid Projects exhibit Armory Show, New York
Clusterfuck Latch gallery, Los Angeles
2002 Ballet Mecanico Epicentro, Mexico City
Sushi Takeshi Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City
Sushi Takeshi La Panaderia, Mexico City
Grants & Fellowships
2004/2005 Cultural Contact grant for RiM magazine
2003/2004 Jumex grant for RiM magazine
2003 PAC (Patronato Arte Contemporaneo) for RiM magazine
2001/2002 Fulbright Fellowship for Mexico City
2001 Liquitex Student Fellowship
2000/2001 Pamela Peabody Graduate Fellowship
1999/2000 Claremont Graduate Fellowship
Residencies
2007-present 18th Street Arts Center
2001/2002 National School of Painting, Drawing and Printmaking "La Esmeralda"
Catalogs
2007 18th Street Arts Center 2007 catalogue
2006 La Estacion Arte Contemporaneo
2005 Enciclopedia de Ultraman
Aca en el Rancho Grande
La Estacion Arte Contemporaneo
2000 GCC International Group Show
Selected Publications
2008 Panopti(con) at Bank Gallery, Downtown News, April, 2008
First Fridays Ventura Art Exhibits and Receptions, Ventura County Star, Jan 26, 2008
2007 Ichiro Irie: Rim Shots by Daniel Hernandez, LA Weekly People Issue, May 9, 2007
2006 Znajomi smak splesinalej tortilli by Stach Szablowski, Spistresci, May 26, 2006, Warsaw
2005 Asia in Mexico: Cacahuates Japoneses by Larisa Escobedo, Art Asia Pacific, Spring New York.
Cacahuates Japoneses reinventa el Kamasutra by Mauricio Marcin, Cronica, January 2005, Mexico City.
Something In The Air by Neuer Ruschfilter, Journal Frankfurt, April, 2005.
The New Independents, Arte Contexto by Barbara Perea, Spring, 2005, Madrid.
I love Godzilla Therefore I'm Kind of Japananes by Pamel Echeverria, Enciclopedia de Ultraman, 2005, Mexico City.
2004 Sublime Science Fiction by Luz Sepulveda, Spot, No. 14, 2004, Mexico City.
Recrean lo sublime del horror en el arte by Miguel Angele Ceballos, El Universal, February 20, 2004, Mexico City.
Horror sublime, colectiva by Masha Zepeda, Vertigo, March 14, 2004, Mexico City.
Intervenciones al espcio corporativo by Aurora Norena, Arte al dia, Mexico, 2004.
Ichiro Irie: 1969 Tokio, Japon, El Heraldo de Chihuahua, April 14, 2004
El viaje de Ichiro by Sol Henaro, Origina, January 2004, Mexico City
Nasza kultura aktori porno by Marek Staszyc, Zycie Warszawy, November 16-17 2004, Warsaw.
2003 Ladicados: entre Japon y Mexico by Aurora Norena, Excelsior, March 16, 2003, Mexico City.
Ultraman Transformado by Sol Henaro, El Huevo, March 2003, Mexico City.
El arte en busca de "lo japones" en el MUCA by Miguel Angel Ceballos, El Universal, February 6, 2003, Mexico City.
2000 Multiethnic painters find inspiration in dislocation by Robert Reed, Daily Yomiuri, February, 2000, Tokyo.
