Biography

Aya Uekawa (b.1979, Tokyo, Japan)

As a neurodivergent artist, Uekawa explores cultural identity, deeply psychological communication, and sociopolitical issues in her representational paintings created from her imagination. She received BFA in 2004, and MFA both from Hunter College, City University of New York in 2008. Uekawa’s works are in prestigious private and public collections such as Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, CA),  Cleveland Clinics Art Foundation, Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), The Fuhrman Collection, Neumann Family Collection, Ovitz Family Collection, Burger COLLECTION Hong Kong, and are exhibited in Japan Society (New York, NY), Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH), FLAG Art Foundation (New York, NY), Akron Museum of Art (Akron, OH), and among others. She lives and works in Beacon, NY.

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