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