Emi Uchida

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

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