The Denver Art Museum (DAM) announces the debut of The Life and Art of Tokio Ueyama, opening July 28, 2024, and on view through June 1, 2025, in the Western American Art Gallery on level 7 of the museum’s Martin Building. Tokio Ueyama will be included in general admission, which is free for everyone 18 and under as well as for museum members.

Born in Japan, Tokio Ueyama moved to the United States in 1908, aged eighteen, and made a home here until his death in 1954. This exhibition tells the story of Ueyama’s life, including his early days as an art student in San Francisco, Southern California and Philadelphia, his travels abroad in Europe and Mexico, his role as artist and community member in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, and his unconstitutional incarceration during World War II at the Granada Relocation Center, now the Amache National Historic Site, in southeast Colorado.