Emi Uchida was born in Yamanashi, Japan in 1970. She studied at Joshibi Junior College of Art and Design and received her degree in Fine Art in 1991. Until 2004, she worked as a designer in the fashion industry. From a very young age she studied realistic painting techniques with established painter Mineko Ando. In 2005, she began exploring abstraction, working closely with Anjin Abe.

Her well-received first solo exhibition was in Japan at the Yamanashi Prefecture gallery in 2005. Uchida creates intimate visual spaces within the traditional confines of the rectangle, creating environments both naturalistic and dreamlike. Her beautiful painted surfaces exhibit a distillation of technique usually reserved for more realistic forms of expression.
Profile
- 1970
- Born in Yamanashi, Japan
- 1991
- Graduated from Joshibi Junior College of Art and Design, Okayama, with BA in Fine Art
Selected Exhibitions
- 2009
- Onishi Gallery, New York
- 2008
- Onishi Gallery, New York
- 2007
- Onishi Gallery, New York
