Luna Ikuta is a Japanese-American artist and designer working across installation, film, sculpture, and fragrance. Known for Afterlife, an underwater garden of transparent plants, her practice explores how beauty, material, and perception shape the way we understand the world.

An industrial design graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design, Ikuta draws from material research and interdisciplinary production processes. She works with transparent plant tissue, glass, digital media, underwater environments, and olfactory molecules to create ethereal worlds that exist between poetry and science. She approaches environments as interconnected systems in which object, image, material, light, architecture, and human perception contribute to the experience of a work. Across mediums, she is drawn to duality and tensions between permanence and ephemerality, nature and fabrication, fragility and strength, and the tangible and invisible.

Since founding her studio in 2018, Ikuta has exhibited internationally, realized permanent public artworks, conceived spatial environments, and collaborated with select cultural and commercial partners. Across these contexts, Ikuta invites viewers to reconsider familiar materials and natural forms through shifts in scale, movement, and perception. At the center of her practice is an interest in how we assign meaning, value, and beauty by tapping into visceral responses rooted in the human experience.