Kako Ueda left her native country of Japan to move to the United States as a teenager to pursue a creative life. Her work has been exhibited at Olympia (New York, NY, 2023); the University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI, 2010); the Museum of Art and Design (New York, NY, 2010); Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland, 2009); DeCordova Museum (Boston, MA, 2009), among others. She is a two-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts grant.
Kako Ueda, Tori Tori Tori, Olympia, 2023.
Kako Ueda Untitled, 2024, Layered hand-cut paper, acrylic, 11.5 x 10 x 1 in (29.2 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm), 15.25 x 13.75 x 1.125 in (38.7 x 34.9 x 2.9 cm) Framed