Kim Uchiyama was born in Des Moines, IA (1955) and lives and works in New York City. She studied at Drake University, Yale Summer School of Art and Music and the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture.

Color acts as light in Uchiyama’s paintings to construct a visceral sense of place, characterized by simple relationships of form such as those found in ancient classical orders. Her paintings embody references to the nature of a particular place and can be seen as a restatement of these influences in the language of contemporary abstraction. Recent solo exhibitions include Helm Contemporary, New York, The Lobby Gallery at 499 Park Avenue, New York, and Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY. Other solo exhibitions include Spazio Contemporaneo Agora’, Palermo, IT, John Davis Gallery, New York and Hudson, NY, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Bridgehampton, NY and Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York. Uchiyama’s work has been exhibited at the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, LSA Museum at Baton Rouge, LA, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, among many other institutions.

Uchiyama’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, ARTnews, The Brooklyn Rail, The New Criterion, The Hudson Review, The Hopkins Review, Artcritical.com, Two Coats of Paint, and Hyperallergic Magazine. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient, two-time MacDowell Fellow, current Artist-In-Residence at Art Cake, Brooklyn, and is President of American Abstract