TOSHIKO UCHIMA (1918-2000)Toshiko Uchima was born in Manchuria. She attended the Dalian Institute of Painting and Kobe College. She became a member of the Democratic Artists Association in 1953. In that period she met Sadjiro Kubo and Shuzo Takiguchi and experimented in abstraction with oil painting, relief printing, and lithography. In 1955 Uchima was a founding member of the Japanese Women's Print Artists Association. In 1958 she showed in the Triennial of Contemporary Print Art in Grechen, Switzerland, and moved to the United States, settling in New York City in 1960, with her husband, the artist Ansei Uchima. From about 1966 Uchima concentrated on assemblages and collages. Her work has been shown extensively in Japan and this country, most recently, in 2019-20, in Joryu Hanga Ky›kai, 1956-65, at the Portland Art Museum, OR.
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