Background
Born in Tokyo, Japan, he grew up in the Ikebukuro district.
Born in Tokyo, Japan, he grew up in the Ikebukuro district.
1993–1997: Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Bachelor in Fine Art and Painting
2002–2003: Chelsea College of Art and Design, post graduate diploma in Fine Art
2003–2004: Chelsea College of Art and Design, Master of Arts in Fine Artist
Since then he has lived and worked in London. His art skilfully blends the delicate and the grotesque, juxtaposing photographic fragments, line art and painting to produce complex abstract works. His work is inspired by the uneasy lack of harmony between tradition and modernity in the fast-paced, constantly changing urban world.
He sees parallels between his work and the way in which his home city, Tokyo, has absorbed western conventions into Japanese culture without any proper synthesis or reconciliation.
He builds his organic-looking images from bizarre collections of carefully cut out photographic elements - including machinery, fish, road signs, leaves, weapons, furniture - the everyday alongside the unusual - the threatening with the benign - but skilfully intertwined so that the original forms are almost indiscernible. Inagawa"s work has been on display in numerous exhibitions throughout the world and he was shortlisted for the Celeste Art Prize in both 2006 and 2007.
1993–1997: Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Bachelor in Fine Art and Painting 1996: "Sanyou-Ten", Myu Gallery, Kanda, Tokyo, Japan 2004: XHIBIT 04, The Arts Gallery, London 2004: Master of Arts fine art show, Chelsea College of Art and Design 2005: Galerie Suty, Coye-la-Forêt, France 2005: Street"Art, Strasbourg Art Fair, Strasbourg, France 2005: "Hybrid", Style Cube Zandari, Seoul, South of Korea 2005: Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2006: "Synchro-Tron", Aqffin Gallery, London 2007: New Art Center, New York 2008: "Cosmopolis", Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London 2008: "Around the Clock", I-MYU, London 2009: "Sensory Cocktails", Gallery Zandari, Seoul, of Korea.