Yoshihiko Ueda Born 1957, Hyogo, Japan. Graduated Visual Arts College Osaka. After assistant works for Masanobu Fukuda and Taiji Arita, goes independent since 1982. Editorial commissions for fashion magazine Ryuko-Tsushin led him work in the various fields of advertising stills and commercial film productions. Major clients include Suntory, Shiseido and Muji. Award achievements include the Tokyo Art Directors Club Grand Prize, the New York Art Directors Club Photography Award, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Graphic Design Silver Prize and the Asahi Advertising Award. Ueda also continues to be a productive artist. As of 2010, he has published 21 collections of photographs. Among his most noted monographs are Quinalt (Kyoto Shoin, 1993), a brooding mediation on a sacred Indian forest in the American Northwest; Amagatsu (Korinsha, 1995), a backstage document of Sankaijuku dancer-choreographer Ushio Amagatsu; Portrait(Littlemore, 2003), portraying 39 honorable Japanese such as Takaaki Yoshimoto and Shotaro Yasuoka; At Home (Littlemore, 2006), the intimate family album of the artist; Yume (Seigensha, 2010), timeless images from a Buddhist monastery in Mandalay; Frank Lloyd Wright (X-Knowledge, 2010), Frank Lloyd Wright architecture collections rendered with a Leica. Since 2008, he has exhibited at Paris Photo and many other art fairs, and in 2010 also held solo-exhibitions of his Quinalt images at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London and TAI Gallery, Santa Fe. His works are in the collections of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Permanent Public Art Collection of New Mexico Arts, Santa Fe, Hermés International, Paris and the Stichting Art & Theatre, Amsterdam.
