Kako Ueda left her native country Japan to move to the United States as a teenager to pursue a creative life. Her work has been exhibited at: Olympia (New York, NY, 2023); University of Wisconsin (Madison, WA, 2010); the Museum of Art and Design (New York, NY, 2010); Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland, 2009); DeCordova Museum (Boston, MA, 2009) among others. She is a two-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts grant.