1947 Born in Kobe, Japan
1973 Excellent Award at the 8th Japan Art Festival
2010 Kobe City Cultural Award (along with many other awards)

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1969 Galerie 16, Kyoto Also, held in 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1979, 1984, 1995, and 2012
1976-77 Skulptur-Foto-Video-Film, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
1977 Plastik und Foto, Staedtisches Museum Wiesbaden , Germany
Ausschnitte 1, Stadtische Kunsthalle Duesseldorf, Germany
1980-81 Axis-Latitude-Longitude, P.S.1, New York, U.S.A
1981 Series, Today’s Artist, Keiji Uematsu-Installation and Photo, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
1981 Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France Also held in 1983, 1986, 1991, 1992, 2001, 2004, and 2008
1981 Galerie Lohrl, Moenchengladbach, Germany Also held in 1985,1989, and 1993
1982 Structures pour le Cloitre, L'eglise St-Trophin, Arles, France
1997 Behind the Perception, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Hyogo
2003 eyes under physical consideration, photographs, video and films,1972-2003, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka
2005 Axis-Latitude-Longitude, Kunstlerverein Marlkasen, Duesseldorf, Germany
2011 Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo
Galerie Baudoin Lebon (with Vladimir Skoda), Paris, France
2012 Axis - Gravity・Anti gravity, Gallery Nomart, Osaka

Selected Group Exhibitions
1971 The 10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
Wakayama Contemporary Art Exhibition, The Museum of Modertn Art, Wakayama
The 2nd International Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa
1974 Japan:Tradition and Contemporary, Stadtishes Kunsthalle, Duesseldorf, Germany
1975 Two Artists at Kobe City Museum of Namban Art, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Keiji Uematsu, Kobe City Museum of Namban Art, Hyogo
1981 Art Now '70-'80, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo
1983 Kunst mit Photographie, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
1983-84 Photography in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1988 XLIII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte la Biennale di Venezia, Giardini di Castello, Venezia, Italy
1990 The 12th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Suma Detached Palace Garden, Hyogo
1997 GRAVITY - Axis of Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2000 Echigotsumari Art Triennial 2000, Matsunoyama, Niigata
2008 Art of Photography/Phography as Art, Osaka Municipal Museum of ModernArt, Osaka
2009 Waiting for Video: Works From the 1960s To Today, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2011 To the 1970s Turnigpoint of Photography & Art, Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo
2012 Zauberspiegel, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany