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Yuko Ueno Born 1976 Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan. Live in United States since 1997. She studied life-size figure sculpture in clay with Barney Hodes 2001 for 4 years at The Art Students League and National Academy in New York. After graduate, she worked and self taught at her studio. She has received numerous awards including those from National Sculpture Society, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Art Kudos International Competition and National Academy. She was also featured in publications NY Arts magazine, Art Calendar magazine, Blackan, Sculpture Community, American Dream and many other media. In 2007, she got inspired by Butterfly when she was in her hometown in Japan, and she started creating butterfly art named “Magical Butterfly” influenced by beauty and life of nature, with message to save them. She creates 3D mixed media Butterfly Installation by her original method of making them. After she had a first solo exhibition in NYC 2008, currently she has been exhibiting her work in different galleries and spaces, also creates/directs her own Art Performances combined art installation, music and dance. Yuko was selected as a 'MyArtspace at SCOPE Miami 2010' finalist by Distinguished Jurors: Elisabeth Sussman, Senior Curator, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | Jarrett Gregory, Curatory of Contemporary Art, The New Museum, New York | Mollie White, Show Director, SCOPE Art Show | Catherine McCormack-Skiba, Founder & CEO, CatMacArt Corporation. A selection of her work was digitally on display with My Artspace at the SCOPE MIAMI 2010 show running concurrently with ART BASEL MIAMI. 上野 優子 栃木県宇都宮市生まれ。 1997年にニューヨークにダンスの勉強で渡米。 ２００１年に彫刻家に転身し、ニューヨークのアートスクールに通いバーニー・ホーデスのもとで４年間等身大具象彫刻を学び、その後アトリエを持ち独学で学ぶ。 具象彫刻家として活動しながら多数の賞を受賞し高い評価を得た。 その中には、ナショナル・スカルプチャー・ソサエティー（全米彫刻家協会), キャサリン・ローラード・ウォルフ・アートクラブ, アート・クドス国際コンペティションなど。主な雑誌, 新聞の掲載には, NY Arts magazine, Art Calendar magazine, Blackan, Sculpture Community, Beauty News NYC,下野新聞, アメドリ、NY生活など。 2007年の日本帰国時に地元で蝶との出会いがあり、それを境に森林保護、自然の美と命をテーマにした”Magical Butterfly” マジカル・バタフライをスタートし蝶を創作し始める。 独自の製法でミックスメディアの材料を使い立体で出来た無数の蝶のインスタレーションを創作している。2008年にニューヨークでの初個展を経て、現在はニューヨークを拠点に展示をする他、作品のインスタレーションと音楽、ダンスなどを１つのステージにしたアートパフォーマンスをプロデュースし活動している。２０１０年に’MyArtSpace at SCOPE Miami 2010' のファイナリストに選ばれ、マイアミバーゼルと共に開催されるSCOPE MIAMI 2010の会場で作品がデジタルスクリーンで展示。  Photo by Youngkyu Park Resume BORN 1976 Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan. Moved to United States 1997 EDUCATION National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York, NY The Art Students League, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITION 2008 Treasures of The Earth, Tribal Spears Gallery, New York, NY EXHIBITIONS 2011 Contemporary Art Fair NYC, The Javits Center, New York, NY 2011 Showcase Winners Exhibition - Round 4, ArtSlant "Japanese Artists in New York: Miho Takai, Hibiki Kobayashi, Yuko Ueno" 3 Person Exhibition, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY 2011 Showcase Winners Exhibition, ArtSlant ASL Staff Exhibition, Manhattan Borough President’s Office, New York, NY
The 13th Annual Postcards from the Edge benefit for Visual AIDS, CRG Gallery, New York 2010 Scope Miami 2010, Miami, Florida On The Grid, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY Moments of Being, Space Womb Gallery, Long Island City, NY The Technical Instructor’s Exhibition, The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY Center City Galleries Grand Opening, Center City Galleries, Paterson, NJ African Heritage Celebration Show, H&M Art Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Straight 7 Arts Show, H&M Art Gallery, New York, NY Technical Instructor’s Exhibition, The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Technical Instructor’s Exhibition, The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY Eco Park -Exhibition & Workshop, NHK Center, Tokyo, Japan Eco Fashion Show, Earth Day New York, NY 2007 The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 111th Annual Exhibition; The National Arts Club, New York, NY 2006 The Allied Artists of America 93rd Annual Exhibition; The National Arts Club, New York, NY The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 110th Annual Exhibition; The National Arts Club, New York, NY The National Sculpture Society 73rd Annual Exhibition; Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, CT The National Sculpture Society 73rd Annual Exhibition, Brookgreen Gardens, Pawleys Island, SC 2006 Art Kudos International Exhibition; Art Kudos Online Gallery September Exhibition; World Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY Grand Opening Celebration; Tribal Spears Gallery, New York, NY Java Studio Art show; Java Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Art in the Park; 4th Annual Uptown Arts Stroll Group Show, New York, NY 29th Annual Juried Exhibition for Non-menbers; Salmagundi Club, New York, NY Recent Sculpture; LIC Arts Weekend, Jackson Avenue Building, Long Island City, NY Nude; Java Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2006 Grants and Merit Exhibitions; Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY Java Winter Show; Java Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Projekt 30 February Exhibition; Projekt 30 Online Gallery 2005 2005 8th Annual Juried Exhibition; National Academy Museum, New York, NY 2004 2004 Seventh Annual Juried Exhibition; National Academy Museum, New York, NY 2003 Sculpture Works; The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2011 One Night Art Performance "Queen of Magical Butterfly" Produced by Yuko Ueno Winner of the 2011 Showcase Competition- Round 1, ArtSlant
2010 Top 50 finalists in the Scope Miami 2010 Competition 1st Prize in Nature, Center City Gallery 2007 Harriet Whitney Frishmuth Award for Bronze Sculpture 2006 C. Percival Dietsh Prize, National Sculpture Society Third Place in 2006 Art Kudos International Exhibition Harriet Whitney Frishmuth Traveling Scholarship for Sculpture Inga Denton School Scholarship 2005 Dr. Ralph Weiler Mamorial Mid-Year Exhibition Prize Trudy and Henry Gillette Painting Scholarship 2004 Tallix Casting Prize 2003 Gladys Blum Scholarship
Ogden Pleissner Scholarship
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth Traveling Scholarship for Sculpture PUBLICATIONS Interview & Article - Beauty News NYC Shimotsuke Newspaper Art Calendar -Februrary 2007 issue American Dream “Front Cover and Interview” Yomi Time “who” New York Cafe Dot Com “Success Interview” Blackan -Jan/Feb 2007 Shukan NY seikatsu
Review - Art Kudos by Shannon Richardson Sculpture Community NY Arts Magazine
Radio & TV - AM Tochigi Japan Internet TV Ustream |
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