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  • 1942 Born in Nagoya, Japan

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    Kunié SUGIURA

    Kunié Sugiura was born in Nagoya and currently lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 1967. At SAIC, Sugiura studied under the conceptual photographer Kenneth Josephson; after almost 50 years, she continues to explore a diverse range of photographic expression. After experimenting with color photography in the 60s and combining acrylic paint with photography on canvas in the 70s, Sugiura began producing photograms with objects from everyday life in the 80s. While pursuing connections between photography and other media, she has also been interested in photography’s materiality, and the way that this materiality can be made abstract. Through her works, she captures light, time, the transience of nature and its memory. The result is an almost contradictory work that harnesses tensions between the concrete and the abstract, while also standing between the improvised and the constructed. Sugiura’s major solo exhibitions include “Time Emit”, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey (2008) and “Dark Matters / Light Affairs”, The University of California, Davis (2001). She has received the Higashikawa Prize (2007) and the Artist’s Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts (1998). 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.

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    Kunié Sugiura

    Japanese photographer (born 1942)

    Kunié Sugiura (杉浦 邦恵, Sugiura Kunie, born November 23, 1942) is a Japanese photographer, painter, and multimedia artist, living in New York City. In 2007 she won the Domestic Photographer Higashikawa Prize.

    Life and work

    Sugiura was 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.

    In the 1980s, she adopted the classic black-and-white photogram technique as a means for her artistic expression.

    Personal life

    She lives and works in New York City.

    Publications

    Books by Sugiura

    Books with contributions by Sugiura

    Awards

    Exhibitions

    Solo exhibitions

    • Warren Benedek Gallery, New York City, 1972
    • Dark Matters / Light Affairs, University of California, Davis, 2001
    • Time Emit, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, New Jersey, 2008
    • Sugiura Kunié: Aspiring Experiments: New York in 50 Years, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2018

    Group exhibitions

    Collections

    Sugiura's work is held in the following permanent collections:

    References

    1. ^"Kunie Sugiura Oral History Vol. 1". Oral History Archives of Japanese Art (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-02-08.
    2. ^Rosenberg, Karen (2013-10-10). "Kunié Sugiura: 'Photographic Collages: 1977-1981'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-02-09.
    3. ^Glueck, Grace (2002-01-18). "ART IN REVIEW; Kunié Sugiura -- 'The Artist Papers and Other Works'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-02-09.
    4. ^ List of prizewinners, 1985–2009Archived 14 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine(in Japanese) Accessed 19 May 2012.
    5. ^"Profile: Kunie Sugiura", "This is Not a

    (Born 1942, Nagoya, Japan. Lives and works in New York, NY)

    In a practice spanning over fifty years, Kunié Sugiura has negotiated between painting and photography, discovering and expanding through continual experimentation.

     

    Throughout her photographic practice, Sugiura has explored her personal and artistic subjectivity within the wonders of the Universal arena.

     

    Kunié Sugiura 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). Sugiura was featured in For a New World to Come: Experiments in Art and Photography, Japan 1968-79, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2015), New Photography 13, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997) and 1972 Annual Exhibition of Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1972). She has received the Higashikawa Prize (2007) and the Artist’s Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts (1998). 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.

    1942 Born in Nagoya, Japan
    1967 Graduated from School of The Art Institute of Chicago, BFA
    Now lives and works in New York


    SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    2023 Kunié Sugiura; an intimate survey curated by Pauline Vermare,Alison Bradley Projects, New York
    2022 Kunié Sugiura, PURPLE, Kyoto JAPAN
    Women Labor, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo JAPAN
    Painting + Photo are like Salt + Pepper, ZEIT-FOTO kunitachi, Tokyo JAPAN
    100 Cuts: Eternal Moment, MEDIA SHOP Gallery 2, Kyoto JAPAN
    2020 Sugiura Kunié, ART OFFICE OZASA. Kyoto
    2019 Kunié Sugiura, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles
    2018 Kunié SUGIURA: Aspiring Experiments, New York in 50 years, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
    2017 Kunié Sugiura: Cko 1966-67, Taka Ishii Gallery NY, New York
    2016 Little Families; Fixity of Nature, 1992-2001, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
    2015 Chance & Fate – Photographic Sculptures and Installation, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
    Botanic after Anna Atkins, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
    2014 You are always on my mind / you are always in my heart; Photo-painting and photocollage, 1976-1981, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
    2013 PhotoCollages 1977–1981, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
    2012 Photographic Works from the 1970s and Now, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
    2008 Time Emit, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey (curated by Charles Steinback)
    Ephemera and Shadow: 1989–2006, Gallery M, Nagoya, Japan
    2007 Sex & Nature: Works from 1969 to 1971 and The Artist Papers, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
    Color Works, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
    2005 The Artists Papers, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
    2004 Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
    2003 Artists and Scientists, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
    2002 The Artist Paper, Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
    The Artist Papers and other works, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
    2001 Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
    Dark Matters / Light Affairs, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of

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