[1] Shigeru Izumi was born in 1922 in Osaka, Japan.

[2][3] In 1951 he established the Osaka demokurato bijutsu kyokai (Democratic Artists Association) with fellow artists Ei-Q and Yoshio Hayakawa.

In 1959 he traveled to New York where he was guest professor at the Pratt Graphic Art Center.

In 1963 he moved to Paris where he lived until around 1968, when he returned to Japan.

[4][3] Shigeru Izumi taught at the Osaka University of Arts from 1970 through the early 1990s.