UEMAE CHIYU

• Chiyuu Uemae was born in 1920 in Kyoto. After studying Western-style painting on his own, he studied under Jiro Yoshihara, and in 1954, he participated in the formation of the "Gutai Art Association" with 15 young artists from the Kansai region who had joined him under Yoshihara. After the formation of the Gutai Art Association, he continued to produce works that consistently pursued non-figurative (abstract) art. 1990 "Avant-garde Japan: The Gutai Group in the 1950s" (National Museum of Modern Art, Rome); 2012 "Painting the Void, 1949-1962" (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles); 2013 solo exhibition "The Armory Show" (Pier 92/94, New York) (omitted) Major Collections: Nerima Art Museum; Tokushima Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; Fukui Prefectural Art Museum; Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka.