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Kyoto textile artist, UEDA KYOKO, employs a textile historically used in Japan as a reinforcement on paper stencils for creating elaborate dyed patterns for kimono. Kinusha is a stiff, open, loosely woven sheer silk that lends itself to Ueda's inspired layering for her tapestries and textiles sculptures. Her distinctive blends of colors are produced from traditional natural dyes such as persimmon tannin, onion, indigo and various mineral pigments, as well as from modern chemical dyes. Ueda graduated from the Craft Department of Osaka University of Arts in 1977, and began her career as a weaver of brocade in Kyoto's famous Nishijin textile industry. After working at Iseki Kazuyo Dyeing Studio in Kyoto, she has established her own studio in Kyoto. The casual machine stitching and the unfinished edges of her work lend an organic, improvisational quality to her both her tapestries and sculptures. Her strong sculptural forms are produced by combining many meters of kinusha in several layers which are sewn in a series of consecutive darts for strength. Ueda says that her tapestries and sculptures are metaphors for the varying cumulative experiences that human beings have in the course of their lives and how they have spent their time. The translucent quality of her richly layered work suggest our ability to "read" and comprehend those layers of human experience. Ueda Kyoko has been exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Japan, Korea, Los Angeles, London, Hungary, Belgium, Poland, and Ireland, and is a Juror for competitions by the Japan Craft Design Association.
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1954
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Born in Osaka
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1977
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Graduated from Craft Department, Dying course at Osaka University of Arts
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1977-82
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Worked as a Tsuzure weaver in Kyoto Nishijin, Japan.
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1983-92
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Worked at Iseki Kazuyo Dyeing Atelier as an assistant and worked on Osaka Seifu Gakuen Ryokai Mandara.
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SOLO EXHIBITION
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2007
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Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
Ueda Kyoto, Gion Konishi, Kyoto
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2006
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Layered Works, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto
Textile Works, Gallery Art Box, Osaka
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2005
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Textile Works, Gallery Piare, Himeji
Textile Works, Gallery Platz, Hamamatsu
Textile Works, Gallery Notion, Kunitachi
Layered Works, Gallery Marufuku, Kyoto
Textile Works, Gallery Malle, Tokyo
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2004
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Textileworks,Gallery Nishikawa, Kyoto)
Textile and Installation, Muse Nanshu, Kamakura)
Weaving works, Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
Textile works, Gallery Bankokusha, Tokyo
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2003-06
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Textile works, Gallery Syukkonsou, Fukuoka
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2003
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The Cravats-Textiles, ESPACE446, Osaka
Textile works, Gallery Kuge, Higashiikoma
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2002 , 04
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Forms of Weaving Textiles, Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
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2002
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Textile works, Hanagoromo, Kokura
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2001, 02
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Textile woks, Gallery Yui, Tokyo
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2001
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Forms of Weaving Textiles, Gion Konishi, Kyoto
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2000, 03
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Form of Weaving Textiles, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto
Textile works, Ecru+HM, Tokyo
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1999
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Forms of Weaving Textiles, Gallery Sunbeam, Osaka
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1995
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Weaving Ornaments, Gallery Miyazaki Teibon Space, Osaka)
Installations of Twisting Washi Paper and Stones, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto
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1993
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Forms of Textiles, Enfair Ginza, Tokyo
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1992
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Textiles and Installations, ARTE FACT, Tokyo
Started to work on Kinusa as the primary material
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1991
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Neckware, Aigura, Nara
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1990, 92
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Forms of Textiles, Gallery Umu, Kyoto
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2007
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12 International Tapestry Triennale, Loaz, Poland
SOFA Chicago
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2003
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International Craft Biennale, Chongjyu, Korea
1St International Miniature Textile Triennale Collations, Szombathelyi, Hungary
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2002
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WABITEN, Clotworthy Art Centre, Ireland
13 selected Tapestry artists exhibition, International Design Centre, Design Gallery, Nagoya
JCDA Belgium Exhibition, VISO Gallery, Belgium
Japan Bulgaria Contemporary Textile Exhibition, Bulgaria
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2001
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Japanese Contemporary Crafts-OUTLINE, Gallery Flow, London England
Using Ibigawa washi Paper, Copperplate print and dyeing-weaving, Shimane Art Museum Gallery
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2000
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13th Textile Miniature Biennale, Szombathelyi, Hungary
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1996
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Contemporary Japanese Craft and Jewelry Design, Japanese American Cultural and Community Centre, Los Angeles, USA
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