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UEDA Akiko
B.F.A., Painting, Musashino Art University
M.F.A., Painting, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels
M.F.A., Lithography, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels
works and lives in Brussels, Belgium
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 "A Long Gaze and Thousands Glances" Gene Gallery (Shanghai, Chine)
2023 "The Merits of Hilly Walks" Suju Gallery (Nagano, Japan)
2022 "Enclosure Undone" Husk Gallery (Brussels, Belgium)
2021 "A Walk of Broken Theatre" Yuka Tsuruno Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2020 "DÉJÀ-MAIS-VU" CENTRALE.lab (Brussels, Belgium)
2019 "One More Glance" A Perfect Square (Brussels, Belgium)
2018 "Neighboring Night" Suju Gallery (Nagano, Japan)
"A Hole For A Wind" Yuka Tsuruno Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2016 "Fuel of the Terrestrial Globe" NICHE Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
"Motionless Journey" Suju Gallery (Nagano, Japan)
2015 "When a Painting Is Looking at Painter's Sleeping Face" Dai-ichi Life Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
"Legs Grown from an Imaginary World" NICHE Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2014 "Forests Still Be Inside of a Seed" Komoro Heights Museum of Art (Nagano, Japan)
"KARA-Dance-KARADA" Suju Gallery (Nagano, Japan)
2013 "Who Turns Over the Sheet of Winter" NICHE Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2012 "ARKO2012 / UEDA AKIKO" OHARA Museum of Art (Okayama, Japan)
2011 "Until a Day When We'll Return to Fields" NICHE Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2010 "Depth of the Inner Garden" Gallery b.TOKYO (Tokyo, Japan)
2009 "Our World Could Be Sometimes a Big Bouquet" Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)
2006 Gallery b.TOKYO (Tokyo, Japan)
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 "Shinano Sankei Classic 2024" Utsuwa Kougei Nakatsuka (Nagano, Japan)
2024 "Me in The Picture" Kitakata City Museum of Art (Fukushima, Japan)
2023 "A Star at Dawn, A Bubble in A Stream" Gene Gallery (Shanghai, China)
2022 "Shinano Sankei Classic" Le Vin (Nagano, Japan)
"No Longer , Not Yet" Au Kalme (Brussels, Belgium)
"Tracing The Path" Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)
"Unforgotten Dream" The Moonens Foundation (Brussels, Belgium)
2021 "AORA:V nature/nurture" AORA SPACE : (online, London, UK)
"Keep in Touch" FEB Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
"Automatism and Construction" POLA Museum Annex (Tokyo, Japan)
"THE MIRROR and THE LAMP" Louise 251 (Brussels, Belgium)
2020 "Let It Flow" Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum (Aich, Japani)
"The Rite of Spring" Yuka Tsuruno Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2019 "Night Walk Day Sleep" Gallery Medium at (Bratislava, Slovakia)
2018 "Kiso Paintings" Tanaka-tei at Kiso District (Nagano, Japan)
2017 "Closing and Neo Vision" Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum (Nagano, Japan)
"Metamorphoses" Gallery82Bank (Nagano, Japan)
2016 "N-ART" Galeria Omotesando (Nagano)
2015 "Scent of Outside" Atelier Sin (Telc, Czech Republic
"Na Hranici - Grenznah"Skolska 28 Gallery (Prague, Czech Republic)
2014 "Ohara contemporary at Musabi" Musashino Art University Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
"Vie des formes"La Fondation des Etats-Unis, Citéinternationale universitaire (Paris, France)
2013 "the 11th Aquarelle of Triennial"Novohrad Museum and Gallery (Lucenec, Slovakia)
"Na Hranici - Grenznah, Czech-German art symposium"Sumava/Bavarian Forest
(Czech Republic/Germany)
"Ohara Contemporary" OHARA Museum of Art (Okayama, Japan)
2011 "Collection of Ohara Museum" Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum (Nagano, Japan)
"Haruhi Painting Triennial 1999-2009" Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)
"Vision Of Contemporary Art 2011" Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
"AICHI GENE -some floating affairs-" Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi, Japan)
2010 "AICHI GENE -some floating affairs-" Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music (Aichi, Japan)
2009 "Shell Art Award 2009" HILLSIDE FORUM (Tokyo, Japan)
"The 6th Haruhi Triennial" Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)
2007 "The 5th Haruhi Biennial" Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)
2005 "The 4th Haruhi Biennial" Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)
Artist in Residence:
2015 Kitakata-city Yume Art Project (Fukushima, Japan)
2015 Centrum Umeni Kvilda (Kvilda, Czech Republic)
2013 Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France)
2012 ARKO2012 OHARA Museum of Art (Okayama, Japan)
Awards & Grants:
2021 Espronceda Prize (MA Graduate, Special Mention) / Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture
2021 City of Brussels Excellence Prize (MA Graduate) / City of Brussels
2018 POLA Grants for Overseas Study by Young Artists / The Pola Art Foundation
2012 Paris Prize 2013 / Musashino Art University
2011 Ohara Museum of Art Prize / VOCA2011
2009 Tamayo Iemura's Prize / Shell Art Award 2009
Grand prize / The 6th Haruhi Triennial
Public Collections:
Art Centre Kvilda Civic Association (Kvilda, Czech Republic)
Kitakata City Museum of Art (Fukushima, Japan)
Kiyosu City Haruhi Museum of Art (Aichi, Japan)
Kurashiki Central Hospital Prophylaxis Plaz a;(Okayama, Japan)
Ohara Museum of Art (Okayama, Japan)