Keiji Uematsu

Solo Exhibitions
1969
Transparence-HO, Galerie 16, Kyoto

1970
Compression, Galerie 16, Kyoto
Compression, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

1971
Cutting, Galerie 16, Kyoto
Earth-point-project, Gallery Mori’s Form, Osaka

1973
Cause for action, Galerie 16, Kyoto

1974
Relation of matters, Shinanobashi Gallery apron, Osaka
Relation of matters, Galerie 16, Kyoto
Photographs and Films, Gallery Cheap Thrills, Helsinki, Finland

1975
Gallery Maki, Tokyo
Galerie 16, Kyoto
Galerie St. Petri, Lund, Sweden

1976
Photographs and Films, Gallery Cheap Thrills, Helsinki, Finland

1976-77
Skulptur-Foto-Video-Film, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Sweden

1977
Plastik und Foto, Hetzler+Keller GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
Plastik und Foto, Städtische Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
Situation-Interval, New Reform, Aalst, Belgium
Ausschnitte 1, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

1979
Keiji Uematsu Print Works, Gallery U, Nagoya, Aichi
Raumskulptur VOR ORT-Arbeitsgalerie, Hamburg, Germany
Skulptur, Foto, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany
Galerie 16, Kyoto

1980
Cultuur-en ontmoetingscentrum De Warade, Turnhout, Belgium
I.C.C. (International Cultureel Centrum), Antwerpen, Belgium
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus+Kunstform, München, Germany

1980-81
Installation Axis-Latitude-Longitude, P.S.1 (Project Studios 1), The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., New York, USA

1981
Environnement et Dessin, Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
Skupturen-Zeichnungen-Fotos, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Series, Today’s Artists, Installation and Photo, Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Art Center

1982
Structures pour le Cloître, Sales Romanes du Cloître Sant-Trophime, Arles, France

1983
Installations, Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France

1984
Structures-Cloth/branch, Corner Piece, Galerie 16, Kyoto
Structures-Cloth/branch, Corner Piece, Ina Gallery 2, Tokyo
Structures-Cloth/branch, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam, Netherland

1985
Project-drawings-installations, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany

1986
Tor Road Gallery, Kobe, Hyogo
Structures-Cloth/branch, Gallery Sanchica, Kobe, Hyogo
Installations Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France

1987
Inversion-Cloth/branch, INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo
Tor Road Gallery, Kobe, Hyogo

1988
Gallery K&M, Gifu
Shinanobashi Gallery 5, Osaka
Project: Venezia Biennale, Tor Road Gallery, Kobe, Hyogo
Project: Venezia Biennale, Gallery Mju:, Ohtsu, Shiga

1989
Project: Keiji Uematsu, Kunstraum Neuss, Germany
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka
Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie Kiki Maier-Hahn, Düsseldorf, Germany
Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbanch, Germany
Skulpturen-Tekeningen, Gele Zaal, Gent, Belgium

1990
Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka
The Poetics of Space, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo
The Poetics of Space, Seibu Department Stores, Tsukashin Art Gallery, Amagasaki, Hyogo
Sculptures, Waβermann Galerie, München, Germany

1991
Dortmunder Kunstverein, Germany
The Misused Space, Waβermann Galerie, Köln, Germany
Breakaway Time/Space, Seibu Art Forum, Ikebukuro, Tokyo
Speculation to a Space, Nomart Editions, Inc. / Exhibit Space, Osaka
Baudoin Lebon in FIAC, Grand-Palais, Paris, France
The Breathing Small Cosmos: Kobe City Hall, Hyogo

1992
Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
New Drawing, Gellery Kuranuki, Osaka

1993
The Breathing Space, Waβermann Galerie, München, Germany
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka
Gallery APA, Nagoya, Aichi
Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany

1994
Touch of Spiral, Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka
It’s possible, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Germany

1995
Invisible Structure, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Gelerie Beatrice Wassermann, München, Germany
Axis-Latitude-Longtitude, Galerie 16, Kyoto

1996
Axis-Latitude-Longtitude, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo

1997
Behind the Perception, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Hyogo
Gellery Kuranuki, Osaka
Behind the Perception, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Waβermann Galerie, Munchen, Germany
Continuing Space-Axis, INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo
Gallery APA, Nagoya, Aichi
Behind the Perception, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Edwin-scarff-Haus, Neu-Ulm, Germany

1999
Axis-Longitude-Latitude, KCAL (Kasai Contemporary Art Laboratory, Amagasaki, Hyogo
Axis-Longitude-Latitude, Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka
Floating Form Axis-Vertical/ Inclination, Nomart Editions, Inc. / Project Space, Osaka

2000
Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka
Inclination of the Earth’s Axis, KCAL (Kansai Contemporary Art Laboratory) Amagasaki, Hyogo

2001
Floating Form-Axis, City Gallery Ikeda, Osaka
Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
Vertical&Horizontal Space-Axis, Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka

2002
Axis-Longitude-Latitude, Nomart Editions, Inc. / Project Space CUBE&LOFT, Osaka

2003
Axis-Latitude-Longtitude, Waβermann Galerie, München, Germany
eyes under physical consideration, photographs, video and films 1972-2003, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka

2003-04
Inclination of the Earth’s Axis, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori

2005
Kunstlerverein Marlkasen, Düsseldorf, Germany

2006
The Garden of Time, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Hyogo

2010
Gallery Yamaki fine art, Kobe

2011
Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Yumiko Chiba Associates viewingroom shinjuku, Tokyo

2011-12
Galerie Baudoin Lebon (with Vladimir Skoda), Paris

2013
Cutting- Axis•Latitude•Longitude, Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo

2014
Frieze Masters Spotlight, Regent’s Park, England, UK

2015
Solo exhibition, ARARIO GALLERY CHEONAN
Invisible Force, Galerie 16, Kyoto
Invisible Force, Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo

2016
Invisible Force and Seeing, Jacobihaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
Invisible Force, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

2019
Invisible Force, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, USA

2021
Ways of Touching the Invisible – Intuition, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, Japan
Keiji Uematsu, Simon Lee Gallery (Online Exhibition)



Prize
1973
The 8th Japan Art Festival Excellent Prize

1974
The Kobe City Cultural Encouragement Prize

1990
The 12th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Grand Prize

1993
The 15th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, Ube-Industry, Ltd. Prize
Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa Prize

1995
The 16th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, Ube-Industry, Ltd. Prize

1996
The 23rd Open Air Sculpture of Nagano City, Prize

1997
The 28th Nakahara Teijiro Excellent Prize
The 17th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, Ube-Industry, Ltd. Prize Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Prize

1998
The 22nd Iue Culture Prize

1999
The 6th Asago 2001 Outdoor Sculpture in Tataragi ’99, Grand Prize

2010
The Kobe city Cultural Prize

2013
The 38th Nakahara Teijiro Prize



Selected Public Collection
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama
Ohara Museum of Art
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
Moderna Musset, Stockholm
Staditsche Galerie im Lenbachhaus
Kunsthalle Bremen
Staditsche Museum Wiesbaden
Aichi Prefectural Library, Nagoya
Atsgericht Lünen, Germany
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre
Art Kite Museum, Detmold, Germany
Asago Art Village, Hyogo
Faret Tachikawa, tokyo
Flughaften, München, Germany
Hat Kobe, Hyogo
Hatano City, Kanagawa
Herbis Osaka
Hokkaido Ryoikuen, Asahikawa
Ikegami Hall, Ota, tokyo
Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kurino, Kagoshima
Kobe City (Kobe General Children’s Center), Hyogo
Kobe City (Kobe Harborland), Hyogo
Kobe University, Hyogo
Kurashiki City, Okayama
Kurashiki City Art Museum, Okayama
Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Hyogo
Landesgartenschau, Hockenheim, Germany
Musee Reattu, Arles, France
Museum Für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Nagano City
Neu Ulmer Museum, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Planning and Promotion Department Secretariat of Tokamachi Regionwide-area,Municipal Cooperation, Miigata
Setoda Town, Hiroshima
Setsu City, Osaka
Skulpturenpark am Schloβ Broich, Mülheim, Germany
St. Andrew’s University, Izumi, Osaka
The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa
The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Otsu
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum
tokai City, Aichi
Ube Outdoor Sculpture Museum, Yamaguchi
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshfen, Germany
Yukanboshi River Sculpture Park, Eniwa, Hokkaido
Museum of Modern Art, NY