ICHIRO IRIE
Curriculum Vitae
Born in Tokyo, Japan, 1969
Raised in Los Angeles, CA from 1971
Lives and works in Mexico City from 2001 to 2006
Currently lives and works in Los Angeles
Teaches at Santa Monica College and Oxnard College
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 and Two Person Exhibitions
2012 Slap, Stick and Mark Eitoeiko Gallery, Tokyo
2011 Laura and the Staple Heads Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009 There’s Nothing You Can Do That Can’t Be Done Yautepec gallery, Mexico City
CAM Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Destroy all Borders Casa del Tunel
2008 Chacharama La Estacion gallery, Chihuahua
Ahokusai 123 Upfront gallery, Ventura, CA
2007 Mexico City 2001-2006 McNish Gallery, Oxnard, CA
2005 Ultraman Encyclopedia O-Itatti gallery, Mexico City
Something in the Air Interim Projekte, Offenbach, Germany
Taste Test LAC, Mexico City
2004 Ultraman Encyclopedia La Estacion gallery, Chihuahua
2001 KOMA East Gallery, Claremont, CA
P.J. Crazyspace, Santa Monica, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Bleach Gallery Lara, Tokyo
Twelve West Los Angeles College Gallery
2011 100 Million Angels Singing (September) Jens Fehring Gallery, Frankfurt
Sur Biennial Rio Hondo College Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
Ouch! Co-Lab at Art Platform, Los Angeles
The Crystal Jungle Chopo Art Museum, Mexico City
Gateway Japan Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
A Strange Affinity to the Beautiful and the Dreadful Hendershot Gallery, NYC
Venice Family Clinic Auction Venice Artwalk, Venice, CA
For This Purpose Only Project One Night Stand, Oxnard, CA
Faculty Exhibit McNish Gallery, Oxnard, CA
2010 FAX Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Venice Family Clinic Auction Venice Artwalk, Venice, CA
Aftershock Royal-T, Los Angeles, CA
For Roland Bunny Gunner, Pamona, CA
Faculty Exhibition SMC Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Love Kills: Betting on the Muse Hanauer Landstrasse 136, Frankfurt, Germany
Draft 643 Project Space, Ventura, CA
2009 AJA XXII The George J. Doizaki Gallery, Los Angeles
On the Shoulders of Davids JAUS, Los Angeles
Let There Be Light Raid Projects, Los Angeles
Plush Eagle Rock Arts Center, Los Angeles
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
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 & Cheap O-Itatti, Mexico City
Aca en el rancho grande Cuatro Diecisiete gallery, Madrid
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
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
Cacahuates Japoneses
Cacahuates Japoneses is an artist collective founded in 2002 in Mexico City by Ichiro Irie, Aska Iida and Horacio Cadzco.
Group Exhibition and Performances
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
Videolab Space, Bedah Video, Soemardja Gallery, 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
2010 18th Street Arts Center
2009 18th Street Arts Center
2008 18th Street Arts Center
La Estacion Arte Contemporaneo
2007 18th Street Arts Center
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
2009 Mexico City's Art World Comes of Age by Alexis Okeowo, More Intelligent Life, www.moreintelligentlife.com, August 17, 2009
Un Viztazo: Reflexiones sobre el arte by Rebecca Perez, Mural, May 28, 2009, Guadalajara, MX
Hace arte Ichiro Irie en el CAM by Rebecca Perez, Mural Movil, May 26, 2009, Guadalajara
Ichiro Irie llega al CAM Contemporaneo by Aimee Muniz, El Informador, May 25, 2009, Guadalajara
Toso se puede hacer en el CAM Contemporaneo by Edgar Velazco, Milenio, May 26, 2009, Guadalajara
Ichiro Busca by Claudia Solano Sandoval, Publico, May 29, 2009, Guadalajara
2008 Panopti(con) at Bank Gallery by Kelly Coats
Los Angeles Downtown News, March 29, 2008
First Fridays Ventura Art Exhibits and Receptions Christine Beirne
Ventura County Star, January 26, 2008
2007 Ichiro Irie: Rim Shots by Daniel Hernandez, LA Weekly People Issue, May 9
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 2005, 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.