Akihito Izumi

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan

Year at Millay: 2016

Fellowship: Robert W. Simpson Fellowship

Awards/Honors: Award Winner, The Jordan H. Prince Scholarship, Art Students League of New York, New York, NY (2023); Fellow, Robert W. Simpson Fellowship, Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY (2017); Artist-in-Residence, Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, Joshua Tree, CA (2016); Runner-Up, Manga Prize, Magazine House, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan (1997).

Website: https://www.akihitoizumiartist.com/

Till 2014, I had been working as a office clerk in a Japanese Human Resource Development organization while being active as a professional cartoonist and illustrator. In 2014, I decided to quit the job and concentrate on making fine art. I had been a self taught artist till then. I decided to go through an academic education and studied in an MFA course at a university in the United Kingdom. After returning to Japan, I settled in Kobe and have been active as a visual artist doing exhibitions at a gallery in this area of Kobe and in Tokyo.