Leiko Ikemura is a Japanese-Swiss painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Ikemura spent her childhood and youth in Japan, where she studied Spanish literature at the Foreign Languages University of Osaka. In 1972 she continued her studies in Spain. Between 1973 and 1978 she studied painting in Seville. In the early 1980s, Ikemura settled in Switzerland and showed her works in Germany for the first time.
In 1991 she was called to University of the Arts Berlin UdK (then Hochschule der Künste HdK) as a professor. In 2014 she became a professor at the Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa-ku, Japan. Since then she lives and works in Berlin and Cologne. Copright Foto: artitious.com