Kim Uchiyama was born in Des Moines, IA and lives and works in New York. 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. Recent solo exhibitions include Helm Contemporary, New York, New York, The Lobby Gallery at 499 Park Avenue, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, New York, and Spazio Contemporaneo Agora’, Palermo, IT.

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 studio resident at Art Cake, Brooklyn, and member of American Abstract Artists.