Keiji Uematsu

1947　　Born in Kobe, Japan

1969　　Received B.A from Department of Education, Fine Art, Kobe University

1975　　Lived in Dusseldorf

1986　　Lived in Dusseldorf and Nishinomiya, Japan

1995　　Lives in Minoh, Japan and Dusseldorf

Currently lives and works in Minoh, Osaka

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