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SHIN IKEGAMI
Photography / Installation / Text-based /
practice (Japan) Based in Tokyo ｜ Website: https://shinikegami.com ｜ Email: shin.ikegami@icloud.com ｜ Instagram: @shin.ikegami
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Profile
Contemporary Artist
Photographer
Exhibition Direction / Independent Researcher
Photography-based contemporary artist working across installation, exhibition direction, photo editing/supervision (for publications and exhibitions), and language-based work, grounded in long-duration, score-driven practice. For me, the score is not self-restraint; it is a respiratory system—an operating rhythm that keeps the work alive over time. The engine is bodily: I learn constraints, inhabit them, bend them, and rebuild them, until adaptation becomes attunement and attunement expands my way of seeing. What may read as process- or concept-led structure is not a stylistic pose; it is a survival method and a form of self-learning under real conditions. Over time, this cycle has shifted my practice from producing images to constructing operating conditions—where archive, space, and language function as one structure.
Recent work moves from photographic archives into spatial composition, viewing conditions, and language as process. Through contemporary art practice, I’ve developed my own process- and concept-based terms, gradually shifting toward practical archival thinking as a method. When needed, I also support projects through site- and document-based research.
• Since October 2016, I have maintained a long-duration archival practice with immediate public release via my website and Instagram; publication itself functions as part of the work’s ongoing procedure.
– I treat publication as an accountability practice: what is released, when, and under what responsibility is part of the work’s structure.
Alongside photography and installation, I develop language-based works (poetic prose / text scores). Rather than serving as statements, these texts operate as conditions: they shape pacing, attention, and “what is missed,” allowing meaning to drift or arrive through repetition and slight shifts. I also use text as a research instrument for how language carries sound and how exhibitions carry movement—observing how voiced reading, silence, and micro-actions (opening a door, kneeling, pausing, touching) reorganize the viewer’s attention and the social flow of a space. In exhibitions, texts may be placed at thresholds (entrance/exit) or dispersed as printed fragments, treating reading and utterance as tactile acts.
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• 2025 — ODAKYU Shonan GATE / Enoshima art festival — Curator invitation. Artist-led, two-person collaborative project: planned, coordinated, and installed from planning through public installation, with full production support covering fabrication, materials, installation, and related production expenses.
• 2025–2026 — Artist-in-Residence (Unnan City, Shimane, Japan) — Curator invitation. One-year AIR; in collaboration with the curator, contributed to the design and ongoing operation of the residency framework, including preparing the living/production environment (housing set-up, equipment planning, and site-specific coordination) and on-site verification, alongside artistic production. Stipend plus in-kind support (housing, utilities, travel, and residency production needs). (Host organization confidential per agreement.)
・997 days
997 days - Part.1 - 2019.6.3 - 2019.12.31
997 days - Part.2 - 2020.1.1 - 2020.12.31
997 days - Part.3 - 2021.1.1 - 2021.8.31
997 days - Part.4 - 2021.9.1 - 2022.2.23
This series "997 days" brings together the primary selection from 997 days of work taken between June 3, 2019 and February 23, 2022. The selection has been completed to 5328 works from approximately 12000 works or more /320 days or more, covering all works taken during this period.
Work Series
2016〜 OMD EM-5
2018 〜 ILCE-7M2
2022.2 ILCE-7RM3
2025〜 SIGMA fp L
〜 2019.6
Lomography New Jupiter 3+ 1.5/50 L39/M
C Sonnar T* 1.5/50 ZM
7artisans 50mm F1.1
Voigtlander HELIAR classic 75mm F1.8 VM
Voigtlander NOKTON classic 40mm F1.4 SC VM
2019.6〜2019.12
Voigtlander NOKTON classic 40mm F1.4 SC VM
Lomography New Jupiter 3+ 1.5/50 L39/M
2020.1〜2022.2
Lomography New Jupiter 3+ 1.5/50 L39/M
2025.9〜
Voigtlander NOKTON classic 40mm F1.4 MC VM
ILCE-7M2 - 997 days
standard / 4800k / contrast・saturation・Sharpness +1 / ios 800
ILCE-7RM3 - 997 days
standard / 4800k / contrast・saturation・Sharpness ± 0 / iso 100
SIGMA fp L
standard / 4850k / iso 100 or 400
2016.10〜 SCOO / No Photo retouch
2019〜
Print output setup: PICTORICO Silver Label Plus; Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000/PRO-1100; consistent output via printer settings (no retouching)
997 days
・Pace: ~30 frames per shooting day, 2–3 days/week
・Editing rule: immediate on-site deletions limited to ~5% (primarily technical failures)
・ Publication rule: all daily images uploaded to the website the same day; SNS posts distributed over the following week (approx. 60–90 posts/week), including shooting date and location
SIGMA fp L
・Editing rule: immediate on-site deletions limited to ~5% (primarily technical failures)
・Publication rule: 60 images/day; year-round, all daily images are published within 3 days
Exhibition List
・2025.11 duo, Tokyo, OGU MAG+
・2025.4-6 duo, Kanagawa, ODAKYU 湘南 GATE “江の島アートフェスティバル関連企画”
・2025.4-6 solo, Kanagawa, ODAKYU 湘南 GATE -螺旋階段- “江の島アートフェスティバル関連企画”
・2024.12 solo, Tokyo, Gallery 201
・2024.10 group, Kanagawa, Ninomiya
・2024.2 solo, Tokyo, PICTORICO SHOP & GALLERY 両国
・2024.2 duo, Tokyo, PICTORICO SHOP & GALLERY 両国
・2023.2 duo, 吉祥寺 珈琲立吉
・2022.11 duo, Tokyo, Design Festa Gallery
・2021.12 Solo, - Tokyo, コピス吉祥寺
・2021.2 duo, Tokyo, PICTORICO SHOP & GALLERY 表参道
・2020 Due to the influence of covid-19, three exhibitions were canceled after the postponement.
・2019.6 Solo, Tokyo, PICTORICO SHOP & GALLERY 表参道
Other exhibitions include group shows, book fairs, etc.