Biography
Takayoshi Ueda was born in Japan, 1969 and currently lives and works in Wakayama, Japan.
Learning oil painting at an art school in Kyoto, he was captivated by the beauty of monochrom paint software he experienced while studying there and began creating with a computer in 1994.
Ueda's major exhibit...
Takayoshi Ueda was born in Japan, 1969 and currently lives and works in Wakayama, Japan.
Learning oil painting at an art school in Kyoto, he was captivated by the beauty of monochrom paint software he experienced while studying there and began creating with a computer in 1994.
Ueda's major exhibitions of his artwork include the 2006 solo exhibition of his earliest masterpiece in NY as well as participation in art fairs in more than 11 countries across the U.S. and Asia, like the Asia Digital Art Award (Awarded Still Images Division Grand Prize) at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, the STRICOFF Gallery group exhibit as a finalist for the ARTBOX. PROJECT New York 1.0, ART EXPO NEW YORK, and Red Dot Miami.
His works of art are kept in the likes of Kitasato Institute and Nishiwaki Okanoyama Art Museum in Japan.
Attempting to break away from the general tendency of CG images to have an artificial and inorganic feel, Ueda's artwork is dubbed “Digilo-graphy”, which started from the utilization of the texture of hand-painted input material which is then digitally processed and combined before being printed onto canvas, and in 2008, his art style evolved after he started making elaborate digital collages that form different animals and plants using those same materials.
Based on the idea that he stumbled upon during the process of making illustrations for his experimental work on a (children's silent book) in 2007, that is to present each page as an independent planar art, he arranged its composition according to the Japanese art style while adding Asian regional tastes to the coloring and combined them with the Western perception of shapes and space, aiming to form a visual image that allows the local individual artist to communicate with global audiences on a level that transcends cultural barriers.
Ueda is mainly influenced and inspired by the Art of the Edo Period, such as the Rinpa School and Jakuchu ITO apart from the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism as well as Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel of the Northern Renaissance.
Currently, Ueda is also presenting NFT artworks on SuperRare. (https://superrare.com/takayoshi)
Awards
2006
Judge Prize in 6th Nishiwaki City Thumbhole Grand Prize Exhibition (Hyogo, Japan)
2011
SILVER Prize in Art here! The Fukuoka street canvas (Fukuoka, Japan)
2013
Second Prize in Creative post Grand Prix「Look this!」 (Adobe Creative Cloud + OTSUKA CORPORATION, Japan)
2015
Still Images Division Grand Prize in 2015 ASIA DIGITAL ART AWARD (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan)
2016
Gallery Show Award in International Emerging Artist Award (Dubai/Belgium)
2017
Honorable Mention in IT'S LIQUID INTERNATIONAL CONTEST 2017 (Itsliquid Group, Venezia Italy)
2017
Grand Prize in BAYER WORLD WIDE (Exhibition Hall BAYER, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria)
2018
Finalist of the ARTBOX. PROJECT New York 1.0 (STRICOFF Gallery, NY)
2023
Awarded 1st prize in Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle
Group Exhibitions
2019
ARTEXPO NEW YORK (Mecenavie's booth, PIER 90, NY)
2019
ART SHOPPING LE CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE (Mecenavie's booth, LOUVRE, Paris, FRA)
2019
RED DOT MIAMI (Booth in ZENITH ART & FASHION, Miami, FL, USA)
2018
ARTBOX PROJECT New York 1.0 (STRICOFF Gallery, NY)
2018
SEGNO- GESTO MATERIA (GALLERIA MERLINO, Florence, Itary)
2017
CONTEMPROARY TENDENCIES (GALLERIA MERLINO, Florence, Itary)
2017
BAYER WORLD WIDE (Exhibition Hall BAYER, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria)
2016
30 International Emerging Artist Award's laureates. (ifa laboratory, Brussels, Belgium)
2016
World Art Dubai (Dubai Convention Center, UAE)
Solo Exhibitions
2004
Solo Exhibition “PRIMARY” (Osaka, Japan)
2005
Solo Exhibition “Plural Composition Work” (Osaka, Japan)
2006
Solo Exhibition “FUSION” (Coo Gallery, NY)
2007
Solo Exhibition - Takayoshi Ueda (Artist Run Exhibition Series 1, Hedeh Restaurant in NY)
2007
4th Private Exhibition (Atelier of Nishiwaki City Art Museum in Hyogo, Japan)
2011
Private Exhibition 2011 (Gallery juen, Wakayama, Japan)
2014
Private Exhibition 2014 (Gallery juen, Wakayama, Japan)
2022
Solo Exhibition “SYNAPSE” (Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan)