In this profile page, we will not only tell you about Yukio Umehara's career, but also the portrait of the artist, his style of painting, and the impression you can feel from his works.

Career

1950	Born in Minamiise Cho, Watarai Gun, Mie Pref. Japan
1978	Graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Japanese Painting,  Tokyo University of the Arts
1980	Completed Master's Program in Painting, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
1983	Mastered Credits of Doctoral Course of Art Major, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
1997-2004	Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
2005-2018	Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

Visiting Professor, Aichi University of the Arts Counselor of the Japan Art Institute

Exhibitions

1983	Doctoral Program Completion Works Exhibition at Shiseido Gallery India Coverage Trip (since then Coverage Trips had been continued in 1985, 1987, 1991, and 1995) The 1st Three-Person Exhibition at Saihodo Gallery (since then exhibited up to the 10th time) Yamatane Museum of Art Award Exhibition
1985	Kunfukai at Gallery Kobayashi (since then exhibited up to the 10th time)
1986	The 8th Shinjukai (since then exhibited up to the 10th time) The 5th Tokyo Central Museum Grand Prize Exhibition Tokyo University of the Arts graduate student training group visiting China (since then participated in 1989, 1990, 1994, and 1996)
1987	Yamatane Museum of Art Award Exhibition
1988	The 43rd Japan Art Institute Spring Exhibition (since then exhibited every year)
1990	The 75th Japan Art Institute Exhibition (since then exhibited every year)
1991	Italy & France Coverage Trip
2000	Solo Exhibition at Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Nagoya Mitsukoshi, and Osaka Mitsukoshi)
2002	1st Kaii Higashiyama Anniversary Japanese Painting Award Exhibition
2006	Tokyo University of the Arts Japanese Painting 2nd Lab "Sketching Exhibition"
2007	Exhibition Japanese Painting "Now" Inten at Paris Mitsukoshi Etoile Solo Exhibition at Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi
2008	Tokyo University of the Arts Japanese Painting Laboratory Exhibition "From One Site" at Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi
2019	Solo Exhibition at Ueno Matsuzakaya Ueno and Nagoya Matsuzakaya

Awards

1978	Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts purchased Graduation Works
1980	Graduate School, Tokyo University of the Arts purchased Completion Works Graduate School, Tokyo University of the Arts purchased Reproductive "Miroku Raigo Zu"
1986	Excellence Award at the 5th Tokyo Central Museum Grand Prize Exhibition
1988	Spring Exhibition Award at the 43rd Spring Inten
1989	Encouragement Award at the 44th Spring Inten
1990	Spring Exhibition Award at the 45th Spring Inten Encouragement Award at the 75th Revival Inten
1991	Encouragement Award at the 46th Spring Inten Encouragement Award at the 76th Revival Inten
1992	Spring Exhibition Award at the 47th Spring Inten Grand Prize of Encouragement Award at the 77th Revival Inten
1993	Spring Exhibition Award at the 48th Spring Inten Grand Prize of Encouragement Award at the 78th Revival Inten
2001	Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award at the 86th Revival Inten
2003	Prime Minister's Award at the 88th Revival Inten

Public Collection

Omishima Art Museum, Imabari City Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tokyo University of the Arts Museum

Japanese painter Yukio Umehara studied under the late Mr. Ikuo Hirayama and majored in Japanese painting at Tokyo University of the Arts.

Since then, he has been in the painting business for over 40 years, and has received many honors such as the Japan Art Academy Award, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, and the Prime Minister's Award. He is working hard and will make a great contribution to the development of the Japanese painting world in the future.

Statue of YUKIO UMEHARA

Born in 1950, just after the baby boomer generation, Painter YUKIO UMEHARA is a very simple person who is naive and sincere.

Also, he goes on wandering trips mainly in Central Asia and South Asia, and likes a nomadic lifestyle that is not bound by time or place. I think

Currently, without being bound by the category of a painter, he is an artist who is working as YUKIO UMEHARA, with a view to expanding overseas in earnest. activities are starting.

What is the Painting Style of YUKIO UMEHARA?
TRUTH WORTH we got to know from Interviews

From Yukio Umehara's Portrait Painting of YUKIO UMEHARA, we can feel the emotional breath of the woman who became the model. It seems that YUKIO UMEHARA himself who draws them has a movement of emotions, and it is reflected in the emotions of the models one after another and changes. In other words, the feelings of joy, sorrow, trust, and relief that lie hidden in the depths of one's heart naturally and inevitably spring up in the course of meeting the artist and drawing them as models, and each viewer feels differently. It was an interesting interview.

Artist YUKIO UMEHARA is also characterized by many of his Portraits that target socially vulnerable people such as women, children, and the elderly. YUKIO UMEHARA says that it will be a fresh and happy shock. Children's motions, such as surprise, anxiety, defense, and escape, which tend to be perceived negatively, will change into expressions that give the painter a fresh impression from the moment he senses the painter's kindness.

Also, when he paints animals, YUKIO UMEHARA concentrates on his heart and soul, and because he is in a state of nothingness only for himself, he does not feel the emotions of animals. It was thought that as we put our hearts of gratitude into the model animal, it would be transferred to us.

In landscape painting, even if it is a scenery that you see every day, it seems that there will be a moment when it will have an impact on the painter one day. And he told me that he paints the work with soul and gratitude without erasing the emotion.

Judging from the many words that YUKIO UMEHARA, the painter who is said to be taciturn, responded to the interview, his works were born as a result of painting with gratitude for the things that impressed him, and will continue to be forever. I couldn't help but think that he was just trying to keep drawing without changing his stance.

Each of the words that painter YUKIO UMEHARA told us was completely free of embellishment. I imagined the state of starting to draw single-mindedly. I had the impression that the painter, who remembered each and every one of the impressions he had at that time, spoke softly as if he were reproducing them, and seemed to be speaking kindly to his disciples.

We live in an age of turmoil, and for ordinary people, it is a world that is really difficult to live in, where people are mentally exhausted and just spend their days trying to get by. However, the way of life of Painter YUKIO UMEHARA that I met in such a situation is an admiration of modern people who have nothing. It's a lifestyle worthy of being called The Wind of ASIA.
For YUKIO UMEHARA, The Wind of ASIA, he has been jumping into the world from Japan which is too narrow in many ways, and is still accumulating Hot Air that will become a huge Source of Energy in order to further his activities around the world as a GLOBAL ARTIST.