Kunie Sugiura
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.
Also recorded as Kunié Sugiura
Kunie Sugiura
- Born
- 1942. · Nagoya.
- Nationality
- Japan and United States.
- Occupation
- photographer, artist and painter.
- Education
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Honours
- New York Foundation for the Arts.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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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.
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Kunie Sugiura (born 1942) is a Japanese and American artist, painter and photographer. The artist was born in Nagoya. Kunie Sugiura is also known as Sugiura, Kunie.
Kunie Sugiura studied at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The artist worked in New York City.
Languages used include Japanese. Works by Kunie Sugiura are held at Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and Tate, among others. The artist received New York Foundation for the Arts.
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Life and work
Kunie Sugiura studied at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The recorded working language is Japanese. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City. Work by Kunie Sugiura is recorded in the collections of Tate, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Dallas Museum of Art and J. Paul Getty Museum. Distinctions recorded are New York Foundation for the Arts.
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
Personal life
She lives and works in New York City.
Solo 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
Group exhibitions
• Vision and Expression, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, 1969 • "Sex & Nature" were included in the Annual Exhibition of Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972
Articles and chapters
Articles and chapters
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Interviews
Interviews
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Books by Sugiura
Books by Sugiura
• Dark Matters/Light Affairs. New York, NY: Arts Management, 2000.. With essays by Bill Arning and Joel Smith. • Artists and Scientists. Nazraeli, 2007..
Books with contributions by Sugiura
Books with contributions by Sugiura
• I'm So Happy You Are Here. New York: Aperture, 2024.. A piece on each of 25 Japanese women photographers.
Books
Books
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Collections
Collections
Sugiura's work is held in the following permanent collections: • Denver Art Museum • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston • Museum of Modern Art, New York • Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
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- “Kunié Sugiura”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
• Artist's Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, 1998 • Domestic Photographer Prize, Higashikawa Prize, 2007
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- 1.Kunie Sugiura Oral History Vol. 1. Oral History Archives of Japanese Art.
- 2.Rosenberg, Karen. Kunié Sugiura: 'Photographic Collages: 1977-1981'. The New York Times. 2013-10-10. 0362-4331.
- 3.Glueck, Grace. ART IN REVIEW; Kunié Sugiura -- 'The Artist Papers and Other Works'. The New York Times. 2002-01-18. 0362-4331.
- 4.List of prizewinners, 1985–2009 Accessed 19 May 2012.
- 5."Profile: Kunie Sugiura", "This is Not a Photograph", October 20 - November 14, 2001, Art Exhibit and Gallery. Carleton College
- 6.A Visit to Kunié Sugiura's New York Studio. Aperture. 2023-03-23.
- 7."ARTIST INFO: KUNIÉ SUGIURA", ArtSpace.com
- 8.First U.S. Survey Exhibition for Kunié Sugiura Opens at SFMOMA in April 2025. SFMOMA.
- 9.Stone, Mee-Lai. Unseen wonders: 70 years of Japanese female photographers – in pictures. The Guardian. 2024-08-22. 0261-3077.
- 10.Bell, Jonathan Bell. 'I'm So Happy You Are Here': discover the work of Japanese women photographers. Wallpaper. 2024-09-15.
- 11.NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. Nyfa.
- 12."CV: Kunié Sugiura", Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York City
- 13.東京都写真美術館.
- 14.1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting. whitney.org.
- 15.Kunié SUGIURA. Taka Ishii Gallery / タカ・イシイギャラリー.
- 16.The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum acquired more than 80 works over the past year. The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 2023-11-22.
- 17.Results – Advanced Search Objects. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- 18.Kunié Sugiura. The Museum of Modern Art.
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