1956 Born in Kagoshima

1980 Received Bachelor of Fine Arts in traditional Japanese painting from Tama Art University

1982 Received Master of Fine Arts from Tama Art University

                Lives and works in Germany and Japan 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2015 Lumière•Untitled, Shun Art Gallery, Shanghai China

2014 Lumière – Hitomi Uchikura exhibition, Sohatsu, Kiyoku Community, Center,Saitama, 

2013 Hitomi Uchikura, Galerie DUTKO, Paris, France

2012 Lumière, Japanese – German Center Berlin, Germany

2011 Presentation: Lumière-Rencontre, Arles sur Tech Village Hall, Pyrénées – Orientales, France

        Lumière, Azabujūban Gallery, Tokyo

        Watching the Light, Plaza Gallery, Tokyo

2009 Shadows in Illusion, Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo

2008 Dancing Light, Exhibt Live and Moris Gallery, Tokyo

2006 Chapel in Lumière, Muse Caracara, Kanagawa

        Lumière, Gallery Bremer, Berlin, Germany

        Lumière, Space Culture BertinPoirèe, Paris, France

        From the Face of Light that has not yet been discovered, Art Gallery, Kankankyo, Tokyo

2005 Hitomi Uchikura’s Atelier, Art Gallery Kankankyo, Tokyo

2004 Numbers, CitéInternationale des Arts, Paris, France

2003 Covered with Light, Art Gallery Kankankyo, Tokyo

2001 Returning Memories, Antenne, Kanagawa

Bright Cells, TEPCO Ginza Plus-Minus Gallery, Tokyo

1999 HIKARI – Memories, Antenne, Kanagawa

HIKARI – Returning to Child’s Mind, Gallery KouzomeBijyutsu, Tokyo 

HIKARI – Precious Memories, Art Gallery Kankankyo, Tokyo

1997 Nippon Gallery, Tokyo

1996 Starlit Sky at Midday, Takeda Exhibit House, Kanagawa

Ochanomizu Gallery, Tokyo

Gallery Kawano, Kagoshima

1995 4℃, Tokyo

Maki Tamura Gallery, Tokyo

1994 Nippon Gallery, Tokyo

1992 Gallery Furukawa, Tokyo

Gene’s Contemporary Art Space, Saitama

1991 Art Gallery K2, Tokyo

Yutori Gallery, Yokohama

1990 Fine ArtKunoki, Kagoshima

1989 Ochanomizu Gallery, Tokyo

Atelier Alice, Kanagawa

1988 The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, Tokyo

Heineken Gallery Bar, Tokyo

Kagoshima Prefectural Culture Center, Kagoshima 

Maki Gallery, Tokyo

Ochanomizu Gallery, Tokyo

1986 Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

1985 Studio 4F, Tokyo

1984 Ginza Kaigakan, Tokyo

1983 Gallery Parergon, Tokyo

1982 Studio 4F, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

 

2015 SHIRO, Makiimasaru Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan

2014 The Hara Museum Collection at 35, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art,Tokyo,   Japan

PAD LONDON art+design 2014, GalerieDutko, Berkley SQ W1, London, England

        DonostiArtean, GalerieLeizorovici, Palacio de Congresos – Kursaal, Saint- Sébastien, Spain

Art Paris 2014, GalerieDutko, Grand Palais, Paris, France 

2013 Artvent ,Westraum, Berlin, Germany

        Something Great and Lumière – with Keiko Shimomukai, Azabujūban Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

Art for Connection, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan

Re-Mix, with Kenichi Kanazawa, Plaza Gallery and Tokyo Museum of Art, Tokyo

2012 Kenzo Takada – Un Certain Regard sur LeJapon, GalerieDutko, Paris, France

Quest for Light and Darkness, Tochigi Prefectual Museum of Art

Come to The Forest, MOB museum of Alternative Art, Tochigi 

2011 Yell for Tohoku – Urushi Art Festival, Fukushima Museum, The Wakana’s Warehouse in  Kitakata, Fukushima 

Tokyo Book Art Week 2011 – Book with Light, Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo

Nakagawa-machi, Art Foresta 2011, Hiroshige Ando Museum, Tochigi

2010 Rika Bando and Hitomi Uchikura, Koubundo Gallery, Obihiro / Etsuko shibataGallery, Tokyo

The Library, Ashikaga City Museum of Art, Tochigi

Sensu 2010, Office Iida, Tokyo

2009 Exhibition of Small Works 2009(The Alumni Association of Tama Art  University), Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo 

The Library, Shizuoka Art Gallery

        Adventures on Surface 2009 (NPO United Art Plantation), Exhibit Live &Moris     Gallery, Tokyo

2008 Kankai Pavilion Opening Exhibition – Beyond Time, Beyond Space, Hara Museum    ARC, Gunma 

Adventures on Surface 2008 Part 1　(NPO United Art Plantation),Gallery Ishida, Tokyo

        Tama Vivant II 2008 – The seed of images, The Gallery of Information Design and Art Science Building in Tama Art University
                Hachioji Campus, Tokyo, Kanagawa    　

2007 Exhibition of Small Works 2007 (The Alumni Association of Tama Art University), Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo

2006 Exhibition of SmallWorks 2006 (The Alumni Association of Tama Art University), Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo

2005 Exhibition of Small Works 2005 (The Alumni Association of Tama Art University), Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo

2004 Exhibition Collective, CitéInternationale des Arts, Paris, France

Weekend of Plasticians, The 4th Ward Office of Paris, France

2003 Eggs of Möbius – Science in Exhibition, Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi

2001 New Style of Art, Kagoshima City Museum of Art 

BOX ART, Kariya City Art Museum, Aichi 

Box Museum Street Exhibition, Suginami Ward Office and neighborhood, Tokyo

Eggs of Möbius – Science in Exhibition, O Art Museum and others, Tokyo

Buzz Club – News From Japan, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, U.S.A

Reflection Part 13 – Tokyo 21, Gallery Saka, Tokyo

2000 The First Box Museum Street Exhibition, SK Gallery and others, Tokyo

        Eggs of Möbius – Science in Exhibition 2000, Obuse, Chikuma-river High Way Museum and others,           Nagano

1997 Session in Early Spring, Art Gallery Kankankyo, Tokyo

Message ’97, Miyakonojo City Museum of Art, Miyazaki

1996 Art Live ’96, Kagoshima City Museum of Art

1995 The 16th Impact Art Festival, Kyoto Mnicipal Museum of Art

Art in Wind – The 4th Makurazaki Biennale, Nanmeikan, Kagoshima 

Art Live ’95, Kagoshima City Museum of Art 

Harmony Week – Art Space for Women, Old Kagoshima Meteoritic Observatory

1994 Frameworks for the Most Attractive Color and Shape – Making Folklore, Space Link, Tokyo

Art Live ’94, Kagoshima City Museum of Art

1993 Art Live ’93, Kagoshima City Museum of Art

1992 Contemporary Sculpture of South Kyushu ’92 in Mizobe, Kagoshima Airport and its neighborhood

Heart E. Art T – Shirts, Das Genie Design Office, Tokyo

A Little Presence Ⅱ – Rising Shapes, Ochanomizu Gallery, Tokyo

1991 Kanagawa Art Annual ’91, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery

1990 MM21 Street Gallery, Minatomirai 21, Kanagawa

A Little Presence Ⅰ, Atelier MIU, Kanagawa

1989 Spiral Take Art Collection 1989, Spiral Garden, Tokyo

16 Women Artists – New Creative Works, Nikke Colton Plaza, Chiba

Himikos Today, IMZ, Fukuoka

The First Art in Wind, Nanmeikan, Kagoshima

Japanese Contemporary Art in the ‘80s – a Prologue to the ‘90s, Heineken Village

Reflection Part 3 – Stairs, Shinjuku Culture Center, Tokyo

Artexpo New York, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, U.S.A 

1988 Spiral Take Art Collection 1988, Spiral Garden, Tokyo

        Contemporary Arts in Yamaguchi V-New Japanese Style Painting, The YamaguchiPrefecutural Museum of Art

Artist Works, Lunami Gallery, Tokyo

1987 A series of Two-men show by Eight Artists, Space Yu, Tokyo

Small Works by Eight Artists, Space Yu, Tokyo

1986 Correct Pronunciation, NEWS, Tokyo

        Richness of Colors, 6th Forms for Tomorrow, with Kagetoshi Arase, Fukuoka Art Museum

1985 4th Varing Eyes, with Yumiko Sugano, Mika Yoshizawa, IBM Kawasaki City               Gallery, Kanagawa

        Soaring from Your Surroundings – ArtisticToy+ArtGirl+Sceneries on the Earth, NEWS, Tokyo

        Hara Annual Ⅴ,　Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

        Three Artists Exhibition, with Koichi Ebizuka, Shigeo Toya, Soo Gallery,Teagu, Korea

1984 Soaring from Your Surroundings – Artistic Toy+ArtGirl+Sceneries on the Earth, D Gallery in Nagoya
                Zokei Junior College of Art & Design, Aichi 

        The First Tama Vivant ’84 – The Playful Surface, Tama Art University Hachioji Campus,

        Seibu Department Hachioji, Tokyo

        Two Artists Exhibition, with Minoru Okuno, Ginza Art Club

1983 The Second Feast – with Huge Paintings, Nagoya City Museum, Aichi 

1982 Four Artists Exhibition, with Yutaka Kubo, Kenji Tanaka, Kaoru Watanabe,        

1981 Diversity of Expression Ⅱ, Tama Art University Graduate School

 Performances

 

2014 Children Opera – Dream, Kiyoku Elementary School, 

2013 Lumière, GalerieDutko, Paris, France

Lumière, Azabujūban gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

Art for Connection, Kirishima Open – Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan

Re-Mix, with Kenichi Kanazawa, Plaza Gallery and Tokyo Museum of Art, Tokyo,Japan

2012 Awaken the light, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts

2011 Awaken the light, Japanese-Germany Center Berlin, Germany

2010 Pennuel – Play in the light, Karasuyama St. Maria Kundergarden, Tochigi

2009 Lumière, Etsuko Shibata Gallery, Tokyo

Concert Installations

 

2010 Seeing the sound – Listening to the light, Tears of Izanagi- Cry of Izanagi, AzabujūbanGallery
                (composition & percussion: Mayako Kubo, guitar: Gaku Yamada, installation: Hitomi Uchikura)

        ASOBI, Koubundo Gallery, Hokkaido
                (composition & performance: Mayako Kubo, guitar: Gaku Yamada, installation: Hitomi Uchikura)

2009 Izanagi or Orpheus in Germany– To See Music, To Hear Painting,BerlinKulturhausMitte Concert Hall, Germany
                 (composition & percussion :  Mayako Kubo, harp : DominikaReetz, Dance : Yuko Kaseki, installation : Hitomi Uchikura)

2008 Izanagi or Orpheus – for Movement and Space, Ono Memorial Hall in WasedaUniversity, Tokyo
                (lecture: ChiristineIvanovic, composition and percussion: Mayako Kubo, harp: Hanako Hirano, Noh dance: Masumi Nakagawa,
                installation:Hitomi Uchikura)

                More Deeply, More Sensitively, Yokufu-en Community Hall, Tokyo
                (installation: Hitomi Uchikura, vocal: Saori Watanabe, lecture : Akio  Kaneyama) 

2007 IIDA Art and Music Series – Salon Concert, Hashimoto House, Ibaraki

Workshops

 

2006 The 15th Making Dreams Come True – Art Wonderland, Kasumi Tsukuba Center,Ibaraki

All gather! Summer Festival Haunted House, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts

2005 Penuel – Exploring party of light, Karasuyama St. Maria Kindergarten, Tochigi 

1985 Meeting with Material – Paper and Creation Part 1, National Children’s Castle, Tokyo

Collections

 

ProudtowerOizumigakuen, Japan

Kanoya-Osumi Hospital, Japan 

Kenzo Takada, France 

Hotel Ritz Carlton Okinawa, Japan

Planè Superior Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi, Japan

Urban – Net UchihonmachiBldg.Japan

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

Elegano Kobe, Japan

Kirishima Open – Air Museum, Japan

Miyakonojo City Museum of Art, Japan

Spiral Wacoal Art Center, Japan

Marui Department Store, Shibuya, Japan

Awards And Grant

 

2011 Artist-in-residence at Arelessur Tech, Pyrénées-Orientales, France

Grant, Nomura Foundation for Solo exhibition at JDZB, Berlin

2009 Grant, The Asahi Shinbun Foundation for Cncert-Installation at Berlin

2007 Grant, The Asahi Shinbun Foundation for Cncert-Installation at Yokufu-en, Tokyo

The Fujimino Station Square Monument Competition, Second prize, Saitama

2003-2004 Resided in France granted by Japanese Government, 

Oversea Study Program for Artist

2004-2006 Artist-in-residence at CitéInternationale des Art, Paris, France

1998 The 1st Sunburst Art Competition, Second Prize, Hinomaru Driving School