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Kunié Sugiura

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Kunié Sugiura (杉浦 邦恵, Sugiura Kunie, born 1942 in Nagoya, Japan[1]) is a Japanese photographer, painter, and multimedia artist. Her chosen medium is the photogram.[1]

Early life and education

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Born in Nagoya, Japan, she moved to the United States in 1963 to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her B.F.A. in 1967.[1]

Career

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Her first group exhibition was Vision and Expression, at the George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York in 1969 and her first one-person exhibition was at the Warren Benedek Gallery in New York City in 1972.[2] Her works "Sex & Nature" were included in the Annual Exhibition of Painting at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1972.

In 1980 she adopted the classic black and white photogram technique as a means for her artistic expression.[3]

She has had numerous major solo exhibitions which include, Sugiura Kunié: Aspiring Experiments: New York in 50 Years, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2018), Time Emit, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey (2008) and Dark Matters / Light Affairs, The University of California, Davis (2001).[4]

Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.[5]

Awards

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She has received the Higashikawa Prize (2007) and the Artist’s Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts (1998).[6]

Personal life

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She lives and works in New York City.

Selected works

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Books

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  • Sugiura, Kunié, Dark matters, light affairs, New York, NY : Arts Management, 2000. ISBN 0-295-98038-9.
  • Sugiura, Kunié, Artists and Scientists, Nazraeli Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59005-190-0.

References

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  • Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. (in Japanese)
  1. ^ a b c "Profile: Kunie Sugiura", "This is Not a Photograph", October 20 - November 14, 2001, Art Exhibit and Gallery. Carleton College
  2. ^ "CV: Kunié Sugiura", Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York City
  3. ^ "ARTIST INFO: KUNIÉ SUGIURA", ArtSpace.com
  4. ^ "Kunié Sugiura". Nonaka-Hill. 10 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
  5. ^ "Kunié SUGIURA". Taka Ishii Gallery / タカ・イシイギャラリー (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-02-19.
  6. ^ "Kunié SUGIURA". Taka Ishii Gallery / タカ・イシイギャラリー (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-02-19.

Further reading

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