Leiko Ikemura: Riding Horizon

After Leiko Ikemura's Lisson debut in New York in 2025, she opens a second gallery exhibition in Los Angeles in 2026 with a range of works produced over the past five or six years that explore her relationship to bodies of water and the horizon line, or as she describes it: "the place where two worlds come together".

While one of Ikemura's monumental Usagi characters – her starry-skirted rabbit hybrid creatures – greets visitors outside the gallery, the recurring figure of a reclining girl or woman is seen inside the show, both in large-scale bronzes and paintings made with egg tempera, which again confront the coexistence of humans and nature within the melting vastness between the heavens of the cosmos and the oceanic spaces below. An indoor stone garden will sprout vertical sculptures that reach between these two poles, while her fantastical treatments of landscape painting enter into the realms of reflection, dreamtime and even of conflict.