Kazutaka Uchida was born in 1948 in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from Tama University of Fine Arts in Tokyo in 1972. Following graduation, he went on to complete a course of study in sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in France in 1975 before returning to Japan to begin his career. In 1982, he received a special commission to conduct research on art handcrafts in local villages in Nepal, and in 1991, received another commission to conduct research on the culture of small minority groups in the People’s Republic of China. Uchida has completed many public and corporate commssions throughout Japan, and his work is in the permanent collections of some of the world’s most respected museums, including, most recently, the Museum of Fine Art in Kyoto and Toyota Museum of Fine Art. Since 1993, he has conducted a number of workshops in the United States. Since 2003, he has been a Guest Artist at our annual Sax Stone Carving Workshops. He recently retired his position as a Professor of Art at a private university in Nagoya, Japan.

image: Kazutaka Uchida working on a sculpture at the Sax Stone Carving Workshop in Rinconada, New Mexico