Ichi Ikeda is a Earth Artist. He was born in Osaka. Specially in the 21st Bienal Internacional de Artes de Sao Paulo in 1991, he, as a special invited artist, became the first Japanese to be in charge of the main stage (For your information, the person who was in charge of the main stage of the previous year was Joseph Beuys). In 1995, he was selected as "the world's 12 artists," for the 50th anniversary art calendar of the United Nations. in May 2008, he was selected as a representative of the East / Southeast Asia and Oceania area at the environment seminar held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, and made a proposal from Earth Art.