Etsuko ichikawa biography of martin

Etsuko Ichikawa is a Tokyo-born, Seattle-based, multimedia artist, filmmaker, and activist.

Ichikawa’s working media varies broadly: socially engaged art, performance, film, installation, sculpture, drawing, and poetry, which together brings a unique interdisciplinary approach that she uses to tell profound stories about our human dignity and the irreplaceable earth that we live on.

She graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in Japan in 1987 with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. She moved to Seattle in 1993 to further her study of fine arts and became independent in 2003.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Seattle Art Museum, the 21st Century