- Bio
- Solo Exhibitions
- Group Exhibitions
- Video Screenings
- Residencies
- Selected Collaborations
- Public Collections
- Awards
- Statement

Hyogo Prefecture, Tokyo
飯川雄大(Iikawa Takehiro),1981年出生於日本兵庫縣。2003年畢業於成安造形大學設計學科的影像專業。他擅長以影像、攝影、設計與繪畫等多媒體形式創作,關注日常生活中容易被忽略的現象,並以獨特視角呈現。飯川常在作品中融入幽默與哲思,探索觀看者與作品之間的互動,並通過獨特的裝置藝術和影像敘事啟發觀眾思考,突顯不經意瞬間中的戲劇性或日常行為中的神聖感。
Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1981; currently based in Kobe. Iikawa is a graduate of Seian University of Art and Design. In 2007, he began making the Decorator Crab series. His numerous works include Decorator Crab – Expecting Spectators, in which objects and spaces are transformed by the viewer’s active involve- ment; Very Heavy Bag, a bag that appears to have been forgotten; and Decorator Crab – Mr. Kobayashi the Pink Cat, a sculpture so large that it cannot be viewed in its entirety. Iikawa’s works provoke thought and taking a positive attitude toward chance events, which are caused by the viewer’s actions.
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Decorator Crab – Measuring the Future, Pulling Time, Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
2022 Decorator Crab – Occurring Simultaneously Or Awareness Being Delayed, The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan Decorator Crab – Make Space, Use Space, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
2021
Dokokade? Genbi Video Art Project: Takehiro Iikawa, Hiroshima MOCA Tsurumi Annex 101, Japan
Art Lab 04: Decorator Crab – Expecting Spectators, Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan
2020
Decorator Crab – Intercepting Perception, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
KAAT Atrium Video Art Project: Takehiro Iikawa, Kanagawa Arts Theatre (KAAT), Japan
Decorator Crab – Mr. Kobayashi the Pink Cat, Namiki Clinic, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Decorator Crab – Mr. Kobayashi the Pink Cat -Park Line in Taichung City, Taiwan
2019 Decorator Crab – Expecting Spectators, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Decorator Crab – Arrangement, Adjustment, Movement, A-Lab, Hyogo, Japan
2017 Impulses and Things Around Them, Hiroshima Art Center, Japan
2016
Decorator Crab – Pink House, Shioya Higashi Civic Park, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Winning Position, Secondhand Bookstore Worldends-garden, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
All for one?, Hotel Anteroom Kyoto Gallery 9.5, Japan
2015
Decorator Crab – Impulses and Things Around Them, Shioya Higashi Civic Park, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
A Few Centimeters of Positioning, SUNDAY, Tokyo, Japan
HIGH LIGHTS SCENE, Koganecho Area Management Center, Site-A Gallery Beneath the Railways, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
2014
HIGHLIGHTS SCENE, Marma Berlin Projekt, Berlin, Germany
2013
Outdoor, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan
Happening Upon, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga (now Shiga Museum of Art), Japan
2012
Fade out, fade up, Seian Art Center (Seian University of Art and Design), Shiga, Japan
Fade out, Fade up & Decorator Crab, Kodama Gallery Tokyo, Japan (toured to Kodama Gallery Kyoto, Japan)
2010 Good Streetlamp, Kodama Gallery Tokyo, Japan
2008 Good Situation, Kodama Gallery Osaka, Japan (toured to KodamaGallery Tokyo, Japan)
2007 The Clock for Practice of Time, Kodama Gallery Tokyo, Japan
2006 The Clock for Practice of Time, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Group Exhibitions:
2023 Re-presentation-site: Reflecting On Long-term Projects During The Museum’s Closure, Hiroshima MOCA Tsurumi Annex 101, Japan New Places, Art Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima, Japan
2022 ATAMI ART GRANT 2022, ACAO Spa & Resort, Shizuoka, Japan Range of the Senses: What It Means to “Experience” Today, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2021 Sumida Mukojima Expo 2021, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Yokohama Triennale 2020 – Afterglow, Yokohama Museum of Art and PLOT 48, Kanagawa, Japan
2019
Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Seven Lamps of The Art Museum, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Sapporo Art Stage 2019, Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center SCARTS, Hokkaido, Japan
2018 Residency Artists Exhibition #2, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
2017 Genbi Dokodemo Tenji 2017, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
KAAT EXHIBITION Open theater, Kanagawa Arts Theatre (KAAT), Japan
2016 Rokko Meets Art, Mt. Rokko, Hyogo, Japan ROLE PLAY, Suhara Building 202, Osaka, Japan
2015 Tsutsuuraura, HIGURE 17-15 CAS, Tokyo, Japan
2014
What is Faith Today? “My god | Your god,” Seian Art Center (Seian University of Art and Design), Shiga, Japan
Search project vol.3: Apartment One One One, Art Area B1, Osaka, Japan
TERATOTERA Art Project: Civic Pride, Mitaka City, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Once was Now, Now is Over, Yet will Come (two-person exhibition with Yagi Lyota), Platform China, Hong Kong
2012 NIPPON-ISMES, Galerie DA-END, Paris, France
2009
Rendezvous 09, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Souvenirs From Kenji Miyazawa, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
2008 Ignore Your Perspective #4, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2007
Awaji Island Art Project 2007, Awaji Island, Kobe, Japan
Ignore Your Perspective #3, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2005 Art Court Frontier 2005, Art Court Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2004 Invisible Garden Project #2: Ie Skirt, Kyoto, Japan
2003 Invisible Garden Project #1: Invisible Garden, Neyagawa, Osaka, Japan
Video Screenings:
2007 Istanbul Film Festival 2007 (“MIACA Compendium” Program), Turkey LUX SALON: MIACA@LUX, LUX, London, UK
2019 KENPOKU Art Project 2019, Takahagi Junior High School, Matsuoka Junior High School, and Akiyama Junior High School, Ibaraki, Japan
2018 Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
2017
Decorator Crab – Impulses and Things Around Them, Takamatsu
Symbol Tower, Kagawa, Japan
Uminaka Taiyoso AIR, Taiyoso, Fukuoka, Japan
2014 MARMA BERLIN Residency program, Berlin, Germany
2013 Art Center Ongoing – residency program, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Yomoyama Art Project, Yomoyamaso, Ibaraki, Japan
Voin Pahoin, Kanagawa, Japan
HAJIMETEN
2013 HAJIMETEN’s “Chockablock Storage” Exhibition, NADiff gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 HAJIMETEN EXHIBITION, Café & Books Bibliothèque / E-ma, Osaka, Japan
2011 Rokko Meets Art 2011, Rokko Country House, Hyogo, Japan
HAJIMETEN and Funny Audience, NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010 Spectacle in The Farm, Nasu Animal Kingdom, Tochigi, Japan
Couma
2005 YOKOHAMA 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yamashita Pier No.3 and No.4 warehouses, Kanagawa, Japan
Shinkaichi Art Street, Kobe Art Village Center, Hyogo, Japan
Re:Olympic, CASO, Osaka, Japan
Table Tennis Players, ART ZONE, Kyoto, Japan
BAUMIMI
2012 Let’s draw four-panel comics!!!, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Japan
2008 Let’s draw four-panel comics!!!, OSTEC Exhibition Hall, Osaka, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2023 Kobe City Cultural Encouragement Award
2022 Hyogo Prefecture Art Encouragement Award
2017 Takamine Tadasu Award, Genbi Dokodemo Kikaku Kobo
2017 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
2002 Selected Grants And Awards
2002 “Young Video Artists Initiative”(Synait: collaborative work with Nishihara Akira), Mori Art Museum
DECORATOR CRAB (2007—)
This project was inspired by decorator crabs that mimic their surroundings.
These crabs decorate themselves by wearing things found onsite. They always appear different.
Is this crab a living creature or a crab? It is difficult to identify what it is.
No one has seen the crab bare, wearing nothing. No one is interested in the crab when it’s bare.
What matters is the “impulse” we feel when we see something.
When we feel the “impulse,” there should not be an excess of information. Information needs to be controlled.
This is a project that generates that “impulse” within a spectator.
It is directed at zero or more spectators.
It is scattered everywhere, but sometimes it remains unnoticed.
The decorator crab does not disclose its information, such as its location, color, shape, size, or weight.
The decorator crab disseminates partial information through prints, objects, videos, and the Web.
There is a “guidebook” to help you find the decorator crab.
The information is primarily and exclusively visual.
The decorator crab does not like attention-grabbing actions.
The decorator crab evades being the object of your gaze.
The decorator crab is difficult to find.
I installed the decorator crab without the intention of attracting a large number of viewers.
No one needs the decorator crab.
We are witnesses to the decorator crab.
When a spectator accidentally finds the decorator crab, a strange scenery emerges.
I am going to implement this project in various locations.
I wonder if you would be able to communicate to someone about the “impulse” that you may feel when encountering the decorator crab.
Iikawa Takehiro