Kako Ueda
Eros & Thanatos
2007
Hand-cut black paper
78 x 68 inhces
KUs 11
Kako Ueda
Eros & Thanatos
2007
Detail
Kako Ueda
Crimson Gut
2004
Hand-cut paper with acrylic and glitter
16 3/4 x 16 inches
KUs 29
Kako Ueda
One-Horn, Two-Horn
2012-13
Detail
Kako Ueda
One-Horn, Two-Horn
2012-13
Hand-Cut paper with acrylic
20 3/4 x 39 inches
KUs 30
Kako Ueda
Totem
2008
hand cut paper, collage, string
dimensions variable
KUs 15
Kako Ueda
Nose Catalog
2012
Hand-cut black paper
15 3/8 x 15 inches
KUs 26
KAKO UEDA
2015
BORN:
Tokyo, Japan, 1966
LIVES:
Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION:
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY: MFA 1999
Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA: BFA 1989
AWARDS/GRANTS:
2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Crafts/Sculpture category
2008 Fellowship recipient from the Urban Artist Initiative, New York City
2007 NYFA Fellow for Printmaking/Drawing/Artist’s Books (also nominated in Craft category)
2006-2007 Smack Mellon Studio Program Fellow
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
“Kako Ueda: Mutaphiliac” George Adams Gallery, New York 2014
“Kako Ueda: New Cut Paper Studies,” George Adams Gallery, 2010
“Flora/Fauna: Kako Ueda and Roxanna Jackson,” Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Milwawukee, 2010.
“Totem: New Paper Cut-Outs,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2008.
“Kako Ueda: Recent Paper Cut-Outs,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2007.
“Kako Ueda and April Vollmer: Flowers and Insects,” Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, Brooklyn, New York, 2007.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
“Object to be Contemplated”, Selby Gallery, The Ringling College of Art & Design, 2015
“Select Cuts and Alterations”, Foley Gallery, New York, Nov. 19, 2014-15
“Art on Paper (biannual exhibition)”, Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC, 2014
“Somewhere Between Creation and Destruction” Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT, 2014
“Fold, Paper, Scissors” Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ 2014
“Art on Paper: The 43rd Exhibition,” Weatherspoon Museum of Art, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2014
“Pulp: Contemporary Cut Paper by Pearlman, Ueda, Buden, Bowdoin, and Jang.” Cohen Gallery, Alfred University, New York 2014
“Obsessive Reductive, The Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco 2014
“Artists’ Ink,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2012.
“Fairytales, Fantasy, & Fear,” Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina, 2012.
“43rd Collectors Show and Sale,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 2011.
"Rock/Paper/Scissors." Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, 2011.
“Animal Instinct: Allegory, Allusion, and Anthropomorphism,” Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2010-2011.
“2010 Collector’s Show,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 2010.
“Summer Group Show: New and Classic,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2010.
“Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don't Make Work About Being Asian," Arario Gallery, New York, NY, 2010.
"Redefining Drawing," Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2010.
“Slash: Paper Under the Knife,” Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, 2009-10.*
“Paper Cuts,” Mariboe Gallery, The Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ, 2009.
“Group Show,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2009.
“X: Mixed Greens 10th Anniversary Show,” Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY, 2009.
“Making It: Selections from the 2008 NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists,” Deutsche Bank Gallery, New York, NY, 2009.*
“Cutters,” Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY, 2009.*
“Other, Other…High Visibility,” Bronx Council on the Arts/Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY, 2009.
“Drawn in the Clouds,” Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, 2008-2009.*
“Building Steam,” Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College,Easton, PA, 2008.
“Drawn to Detail,” DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 2008.*
“Paper City,” Mixed Greens, New York, NY, 2008.
“2007 Collector's Show,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 2007.
“The Art if Collecting,” Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, 2007.
"Smack Mellon Open Studios,” Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, New York, 2007.
Pierogi Flat Files, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, 2007.
Drawing Center Slide Registry, New York, NY, 2007.
Artist Space, New York, NY, 2007.
"Smack Mellon Open Studios", Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY, 2006.
Artist Space, New York, NY, 2006.
"Works on Paper,” The Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY, 2006.
"Kentucky Derby Party & Art Auction Benefit,” Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, 2006.
"The Night of 1,000 Drawings,” Artist Space, New York, NY, 2005.
"Auk Dry Goods,” Auk Gallery, Hamden, NY, 2005.
"Fifteen Paces,” Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, 2005.
"Post Card from the Edge,” Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, 2004.
"Space Walk,” Moving Image Gallery, New York, NY, 2001.
"Brooklyn, New Work,” The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY, 2001.
"Meat Market Art Fair,” Pierogi Gallery, New York, NY, 2000.
"Bathroom,” Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, NY, 1998.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
“All Things Paper” created by Very Pt. Ltd. Singapore, a segment with Peter Callasen and Takaki Kihara, 2008, www.very.sg
Ansite, Katy, “Bug Love at the Botanic Garden”, Brooklyn Rail, April 19, 2007, http://www.brooklynrecord.com/archives/2007/04/bug_love.html#more.
Block, Summer, “Famous, Infamous & Unknown, Alarm Magazine, issue 25, 2006.
Cally, “Kako Ueda’s Paper Cuts,” Cally Creates, April 12, 2007, http://callcreates.blogspot.com/
Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, June 26, 1998.
Curry, Michael, “Interview: Kako Ueda,” Sioux Wire, July 5, 2007 http://siouxwire.com
“Fashionize 2,” Delicatessen, Italy, 2007.
Denker, Christian, Vom Geist des Bauches: Für eine Philsophie der Verdauung. Passagen-Verlag, 2013.
“Kako Ueda’s Paper Cuts.”Animal New York (online magazine/blog of art & culture), Nov. 6, 2006.
Kerwin, Barbara and Wendy Welch, Drawing from the Inside Out. Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2015.
“Japan Style.” Craft Magazine, volume 3, April 2007, issue, p. 22.
Lafo, Rachel Rosenfield. Drawn to Detail. DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 2008.
Loh, Adeline. Perfect Paper. Page One Publishing Pte. Ltd., Kaki Bukit Techpark II, Singapore, 2009.
Muir, Lauren, “Kako Ueda Interview,” White Hot Magazine, issue 3, May 2007 http://www.whitehotmagazine.com.
Neighborhood Beat (BCAT TV program channel 56/69), Kako Ueda interview in the segment of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, 2007
New American Paintings Juried Exhibitions-in-Print 74. February/March 2008.Overcash, Anita. “Fairytales, Fantasies & Fear at Mint Museum,” Charlotte Creative Loafing, March 6, 2012.
Scarvey, Katie. “Mint’s ‘Fairytales’ Exhibit is Magical and Macabre,” Salisbury Post, March 8, 2012.
Schreiber, Barbara. “‘Fairytales, Fantasy & Fear’: Mint show puts serious art into a playful context.” charlotteobserver.com. June 6, 2012.
“Seed Issue,” Artworld Digest Magazine, 2007, p. 43.
“The Short List.” The Village Voice, May 4 – 10, 2005, for Fifteen Paces.
Sloman, Paul. Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut. Black Dog Publishing, London, UK, 2009.
Stern, Melissa. “Cut Along the Dotted Line,” New York Press, October 8, 2008.
Wiley, Erin. "Pushing Paper," Blueprint Magazine, November 2007, http://blogs1.marthastewart.com/blueprint/2007/11/pushing-paper.html
Zalopany, Chelsea. “Dress Code Bibhu Mohapatra,” New York Times, September 12, 2001
Amer Kobaslija and Kako Ueda are included in Objects to be Contemplated at the Selby Gallery at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. The exhibition focuses on the notion that the average art viewer spends 27 secounds looking at a work of art, highlighting artworks which encourage viewers to spend more time with it.
Congratulations to Kako Ueda, who has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for the 2013-14 cycle. Ueda has received the award in the Crafts & Sculpture category for her work using cut paper and collage.
