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Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor (born )

Leiko Ikemura (イケムラレイコ, Ikemura Reiko, born 22 August in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese-Swiss artist who works in a variety of mediums, including oil painting, sculpture, and watercolor.

She divides her time between Cologne and Berlin, teaching painting at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Active on the international art scene since the s, she is known for her work within the Neo-Expressionism movement of the s, as well as her continually evolving style.

Much of her oeuvre features elements of symbolism, involving the creation of magical universes blend elements of her animals, humans, and plants.^[1] Her work has been featured in a number of solo exhibitions in Japan and Europe, and is held in the permanent collections of major institutions such at the Centre Pompidou, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunstmuseum Bern, Kunsthaus Zurich, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.^[2] In , she had