Shoji UEDA
1913 Born in Sakaimachi (now Sakaiminato-City), Tottori Prefecture
1930 Graduated from the Prefectural Yonago Middle School
1931 Joined Yonago Photo Club and Nohon Koga Association, Tottori Prefecture
1932 Finished Oriental Photography School, Tokyo
Open own photo studio, Sakaiminatyo City
1947 Participated in "Ginryusha"
1954 The Second Nika-Kai Prize, Tokyo
1955 Member of Nika-Kai Association, Tokyo
1975 The Photographic Society of Japan Award of the Year, Tokyo
1975-1994 Professor of Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka
1978 Cultural Merits Awarrd by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Tokyo
1985 The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold & Silver Rays, National Award
1988 The Internal Photographer Prize of the 4th Higashikawa Prize

Personal Exhibitions
1971 "Children the Year Around", Pentax Gallery, Tokyo
1974 "Shoji Ueda Photographs 1935-1974", Nikon Salon, Tokyo
1979 "Vest Pocket-Kodak in Europe", Pentax Gallery, Tokyo
"Matsue City 1960",Olympus Gallery, Tokyo
1980 "My View", Nikon Salon, Tokyo/Osaka
"Paysage avec les hommes II", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
"A New Topography of Izumo", Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo
1981 "Marchenland", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
"Brilliant Scenes", Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo
1982 Ao Gallery, Tokyo
Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam
J. Walter & Thompson Gallery, Amsterdam
1983 "Poem of Long Winds", Olympus Gallery, Tokyo
Il Diaframma Gallery, Milano
Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1984 "The Locus of Shoji Ueda 50 Years", Pentax Gallery, Tokyo
"Children" series, FNAC, Paris
"The Locus of Shoji Ueda 50 Years", Chambre Claire, Paris
1985 "Landscapes in View", Gallery Wide, Tokyo
1986 "Shoji Ueda Polaroid 35m/m Photo Exhibition", Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
"Stil Life as Landscape, Landscape as Still Life", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
"Shoji Ueda Polaroid 35m/m Photo Exhibition", Picture Photo Space, Osaka
1987 "Fotografien von Shoji Ueda", Fotografie Forum Frunkfurt, Frankfurt
"Shoji Ueda Fotografien 1930-1986", Museum fur Fotografie und Zeitkunst, Bremen
"Shoji Ueda", Parco Gallery, Tokyo
1988 "Vintage", Zeit-Foto Salon,Tokyo
"Shoji Ueda", The Museum of Contemporary Photography Columbia College, Chicago
"Shoji Ueda", Seibu Art Gallery, Tokyo
1989 "Light and Shadow in Spain", Pentax Forum, Tokyo
1990 "Shoji Ueda", Konika Photo Gallery, Tokyo
"Shoji Ueda", Museum d'Elysee, Lausanne
1991 "Modernist on Dune", il tempo Gallery, Tokyo
1992 "Shoji Ueda, Dune Theatre", JCII Photo Salon, Tokyo
"Shoji Ueda, Stil Life", Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo
1993 "Shoji Ueda, Dye-Transpher Prints", Picture Photo Space, Osaka
"Shoji Ueda", Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo
il tempo, Tokyo
1994 "Shoji Ueda", Galerie Municipale du Chateau d'eau, Toulouse

Group Exhibitions
1932 View of Suidobashi, Nihon Koga Association, Tokyo
1937 Chugoku Phototgrphers Group 1, Konihsiroku Hall, Tokyo
1939 Chugoku Phototgrphers Group 3, Konihsiroku Hall, Tokyo
1946 Asahi Shimbunsha Photo Exhibition, Tokyo
1952 Two-Persons exhibition, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo (with Yoichi Midorikawa)
1954 Nika-Kai Exhibition, Metoropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo
1957 Six-Persons exhibition, Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo (with Shotaro Akiyama, Tadahiko Hayashi, Takeji Iwamiya, Yoichi Midorikawa & Hatsutaro Horiuchi)
1979 "Japanese Photography Today and Its Origin", Galleria d'Art Moderne, Bologna and travelled to European Citys
"Japan, A Self Portrait", ICP, New York and travelled to Venice
1980 "Highlight of Photography",Photokina , Koln
1982 "38 Japanes Photographers", Photo Art 1,Photokina, Koln
"Masque", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo (Two-Person Exhibition with Jacques-Andre Boiffard)
Camera Obscura Gallery, Stockholm
1983 "Un regard sur l'art japonais d'aujourd'hui", Musee Moderne, Geneve
"Shoji Ueda & Teikoh Shiotani Photo Exhibition", Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori
1985 "Paris - New york - Tokyo", Tsukuba Museum of Photography '85, Tsukuba City
"Giappone Avanguardia del Futuro", Genova
"Die japanische Photographie"Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
1986 "Fotografia Japonesa Contemporanea", Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao & Valencia
"The Spirit of the Times", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
"The Works with Polaroid 20x24", Seed Hall (Shibuya Seibu), Tokyo
"Amsterdam Foto '86", Amsterdam
"The 50 Years of Modern Color Photography", Photokina, Koln
"Le Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1987 "Master Photographers Photo Exhibition by Soft Focus Lens", Isetan Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Japanese Photography in 1930's", The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura
Photopia - International Month Photography, Athens
1989 "Orientalism", White Museum (World Design Expo '89), Nagoya
"150 Years of Photographic Art, From Its Introduction to Present Day" Konica Plaza, Tokyo
"Photography 150 Years: Its Light and Shadow", Espace Printemps, Tokyo
1990 "La photographie japonaise de l'entre-deux-guerres, du pictorialisme au modernisme", Palai de Tokyo, Paris
"Artist Who Love Nature; From Barbizon School to Contemporary Photography", The Green Museum (The International Garden and Greenery Exposition), Osaka
"La photographie publicitaire japonaise aujourd'hui", Grande Arche de la Defense, Paris
"Japon - Ann es 60", PICTO Bastille, Paris
1991 "The 4th Wall", Amsterdam
"Japanese 14 Photographers", Nihonbashi-Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
1992 "Shoji Ueda and His Company", Yonago-City Museum of Art, Yonago
1995 "The Founding and Development of Modern Photography in Japan", Tokyo Metroporitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"Shoji Ueda and Kazuo Kitai Two Parson's Exibision" Art Speace Simoda, Tokyo

Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Biblioth que nationale, Paris
Le Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Tokyo Metoroporitan Museam of Photography, Tokyo
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Yonago-City Museum of Art, Yonago
Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguci

Publications
1940 "How to Photograph in Country Landscape"
1962 "Journey around the Sanin"
1965 "Izumo Myths", Kyoto
1967 "Oki", Kyoto
1971 "Children the Year Around", Tokyo
1974 "Soundless Memories", Tokyo
"Izumo", Tokyo
1978 "Sand Dunes / Seasons of the Children", Tokyo
"Matsue City 1960". Tottori
1980 "A New Topography of Izumo", Tokyo
1981 "Brilliant Scenes", Tokyo
1983 "Shoji Ueda" (Complete Works of the Showa Period, Series 10), Tokyo
1986 "Shoji Ueda Polaroid 35mm Photo Album", Tokyo
"Dunes", Tokyo