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Yukimasa Ida (井田幸昌, born 18 February 1990) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in painting but also in sculptor and printmaking. He is the founder and President of IDA Studio INC. His main concept is “ICHI-GO ICHI-E (一期一会)”, a Japanese idiom that describes each moment as a once-in-a-lifetime experience and encounter. He expresses the unrepeatable moment in the “now” and projects the past and present into his work, and questions the subtleties of existence. His concepts include the idea of time, life and death. His artworks are characterized by the rhythm within the brushstrokes that create a vibrant and powerful dramatic impasto texture. He is well-known for his “PORTRAIT” series, which uses the icons of the times and his close people as motifs, and the “End of today” series, which are like an illustrated diary of his mental images and the anonymous everyday people around him.

Career
Yukimasa Ida was born in 1990, in Tottori prefecture, Japan. He grew up in the sculptor studio of his father, Katsumi Ida. Influenced by his father, he felt connected to art and started painting and making artworks as a small child. Around this time, Robert Sindorf, a good friend of his father, had a profound effect on the young artist. Yukimasa took Robert as a mentor, and learned a lot of things from him. And the respect and admiration he feels for Robert is as strong today as it was then. Yukimasa Ida then started oil painting seriously when he was 16 years old. After graduating from high school, Yukimasa Ida started a job as a stonemason after failing the university entrance exams, but he couldn’t give up on painting and eventually got into Tokyo University of the Arts. He graduated in 2016 with a B.A. in Oil Painting and in 2019 he achieved a Masters in Oil Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts. Since he was a student, Yukimasa Ida has exhibited his works both nationally and Internationally, and participated in many solo and group exhibitions. In 2016, he participated in “VOCA Exhibition 2016”, recommended by Akira Nonaka (director of Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum). He then won the CAF “Special Jury Award” by Contemporary Art Foundation.