icon CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 2025

Dec 4 2025 to Jan 15, 2026

Exhibition Overview

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
icon Launches Inaugural Artsy Exhibition: 12 Japanese Photographers Redefine Contemporary Visual Language
TOKYO/ONLINE – December 4, 2025 – icon channel, Tokyo’s leading contemporary photography platform, announces its first online exhibition on Artsy, the world’s largest online art marketplace. Running December 4, 2025, through January 15, 2026, this landmark exhibition presents 12 carefully selected Japanese photographers, offering international collectors unprecedented access to a movement reshaping global visual discourse.
A New Chapter in Japanese Photography
Since 2021, icon has united over 50 artists who challenge photographic expression’s boundaries. “This exhibition showcases a new generation of Japanese artists creating visual languages that speak to universal human experiences—life and death, presence and absence, the eternal and the ephemeral,” says Tomohide Ikeya, founder and creative director of icon.
Featured Artists
Satoshi Etoh – Ethereal landscapes and atmospheric studies
HASEO – Spirituality and mythology through staged photography
Hajime Kinoko – Beauty and fragility in botanical forms
Munehide Ida – Visualizing sound frequencies
Izima Kaoru – Global perspectives and cultural connections
Kazuaki Koseki – Nature and light intersections
PHOTOGRAPHERHAL - Contemporary visual narratives
Masumi Shiohara – Botanical specimens and natural hybrids
Misuzu Shibuya – A contemporary portrait and visual storyteller
Moeko Suzuki – Organic forms and skeletal structures
Yuji Susaki – Surreal collages fusing human, natural, and digital elements
Jiro Yabuzaki – Abstract natural phenomena
Jinn Yagi – Buddhist philosophy and cycles of existence

Between Tradition and Innovation
The works explore profound boundaries: between tradition and innovation, analog and digital, Eastern philosophy and contemporary global aesthetics. Artists employ diverse approaches—from experimental techniques merging ancient Japanese concepts of ma (negative space) and wabi-sabi (imperfect beauty) with digital tools, to bold explorations of color, light, and texture challenging conventional photographic practice.
Curatorial Vision
By presenting these artists on Artsy’s global stage, icon creates crucial opportunities for international recognition—essential support for photographers navigating the contemporary art market. “This exhibition invites discovery of artists whose visual innovations will define tomorrow’s photographic landscape,” notes Ikeya.
Exhibition Details
Title: icon contemporary photography exhibition 2025
Dates: December 4, 2025 – January 15, 2026
Featured Artists: 12 contemporary Japanese photographers
Works: 30+ curated photographs
Price Range: $1,500 to $50,000+
About icon channel
Founded in 2021 by photographer and curator Tomohide Ikeya, icon channel unites over 50 contemporary artists exploring photography’s evolving boundaries. icon preserves Japan’s photographic heritage while bridging Japanese visual culture to international audiences through curated exhibitions, artist support programs, and an active Instagram community (@icon__channel).
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