Image: Akira Ikezoe: Toads on the Diagram of Nuclear Fuel Cycle, 2021/2024
© Foto: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
EFA Studio Member Artist Akira Ikezoe has been selected as one of the 56 artists in the 2026 Whitney Biennial, opening March 8.
This year's show will contend with what the museum described as "various forms of relationality, including interspecies kinships, familial relations, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports."
Akira Ikezoe (b. 1979) is a New York-based artist born in Kochi, Japan. Ikezoe creates works in diverse disciplines, including drawing, painting, video and performance, in relation to the balance between the forces we think of as outside or before ourselves, and the “civilizing” of ourselves. In Ikezoe’s works, the human figure is presented as his alter ego and woven into a metaphysical and mythological context that depicts a timeless melting point between human and natural boundaries.