| 1947: | First Exhibition of the Dainiki-kai (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo) |
| 1958: | New Developments in Painting: Art Informel and Gutai (Takashimaya Namba, Osaka) |
| 1964: | Trends in Contemporary Art: Painting and Sculpture (National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto) |
| 1966: | Chiyu Uemae (Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka) |
| 1970: | Gutai Group Exhibition (Expo ’70, Midori-kan Entrance Hall, Osaka) |
| 1979: | Jiro Yoshihara and Gutai: Aftermath (The Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo) |
| 1980: | Art Now ’80 (The Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo) |
| 1985: | Action et Emotion, Peintures des Années 50 : Informel, Gutaï, Cobra (The National Museum of Art, Osaka) |
| 1986: | Contemporary Art: Cross Sections of Thread and Fabric (Spiral Garden, Tokyo) |
| 1986: | Gutai — Action and Painting (The Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo) |
| 1987: | The 1st Needle Art Exhibition (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
| 1990: | Japanese Avant-Garde: The Gutai Group of the 1950s (National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome) |
| 1992-93: | Gutai Exhibition I, II, III (Ashiya City Museum of Art and History) |
| 1996: | Ten Years of Avant-Garde Artists: Self-Transformation and Continuity (Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo) |
| 1997: | Passionate Abstraction 1957–64 (Ashiya City Museum of Art and History) |
| 1999: | Gutai Exhibition in Paris (Galerie Nationale du jeu de Paume, Paris) |
| 1999: | The Cosmology of Accumulation and Density: Chiyu Uemae (Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Art Center) |
| 1999: | Gutai Homecoming from Paris: Chiyu Uemae Exhibition in Maizuru (Maizuru City Memorial Hall) |
| 2001: | The Mystery of Chiyu Uemae’s Works at Eighty (Itami City Museum of Crafts) |
| 2005: | Chiyu Uemae and the Gutai Art Association (Fukuoka Art Museum) |
| 2008: | Dots Talk: UEMAE Chiyu, YAMANAKA Yoshikazu, TSUBOTA Masahiko (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
| 2012: | Gutai : the spirit of an era (The National Art Center, Tokyo) |
| 2012: | Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void 1949–1962 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) |
| 2012-13: | Beyond Ninety: The Artistic Path of Chiyu Uemae (BB Plaza Museum of Art) |
| 2013: | Gutai: Splendid Playground (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York) |
| 2013: | Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s (The Warehouse, Dallas) |
| 2014: | Chiyu Uemae — Marking Time (Osaka Prefectural Enokojima Cultural Art Center [enoco]) |
| 2017: | Binding Threads / Expanding Threads: The Art of Creating “Between-ness” (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art) |
| 2018: | Gutai: Space and Time (Soulages Museum, Rodez, France) |
| 2022: | Back to 1972: Contemporary Art from Fifty Years Ago (Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya) |
| 2022: | Into the Unknown World — GUTAI: Differentiation and Integration (Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka / The National Museum of Art, Osakaa) |
| 2023: | Chiyu Uemae: Solo Exhibition (Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp) |
| 2024: | Chiyu Uemae, Cosmology (Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong) |
| 2025: | The Gutai Art Association and Ashiya: Its Aftermath (Ashiya City Museum of Art and History) |
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