Kunié Sugiura
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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]She has received the Higashikawa Prize (2007) and the Artist’s Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts (1998).[5]
Personal life
[edit]She lives and works in New York City.
Selected works
[edit]Books
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. (in Japanese)
- ^ a b c "Profile: Kunie Sugiura", "This is Not a Photograph", October 20 - November 14, 2001, Art Exhibit and Gallery. Carleton College
- ^ "CV: Kunié Sugiura", Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York City
- ^ "ARTIST INFO: KUNIÉ SUGIURA", ArtSpace.com
- ^ "Kunié Sugiura". Nonaka-Hill. 10 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
- ^ a b "Kunié SUGIURA". Taka Ishii Gallery / タカ・イシイギャラリー (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-02-19.
Further reading
[edit]- Carol Armstrong, “Cameraless: From Natural Illustrations and Nature Prints to Manual and Photogenic Drawings and Other Botanographs,” in Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 104.
- Arning, Bill; Smith, Joel, Kunié Sugiura, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2000. Essays on Sugiura's work.
- Glueck, Grace, "Art in Review; Kunié Sugiura -- 'The Artist Papers and Other Works'", The New York Times, January 18, 2002
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