Sugiura Kunie Biography


Education
Born in Nagoya, Japan
1967 BFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Solo Exhibitions
2002 The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2001 Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
Kaakura Gallery, Kamakura
Leslie Tonkonow Gallery , New York
2000 Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassor Collage, Poughkeepsie, NY
Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusets College of Art, Boston, MA
Gallery Gan, Tokyo
Judy Ann Goldman Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Galleria Civica Modena, Modena, Italy
1998 Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
Judy Ann Goldman Gallery, Boston, MA
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
1997 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1996 Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1995 Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1994 Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
Akira Ikeda Gallery (project room), New York
1993 Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
il tempo, Tokyo
Kanagawa Science Park Gallery, Kawasaki
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
1991 Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
1989 White Room, White Columns, New York
Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1987 Art City, New York
1986 Art City, New York
Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1979 Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1978 Ginza Kaiga Kan, Tokyo
1972 Warren Benedek Gallery, New York
1969 Portogallo Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions
2000 "Significant Other: The Hand of Man in Animal Imagery" Photographic Resource Center, Boston
"Gardens of Pleasure" John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
"Animal Magnetism" Bucknell Art Gallery, Buknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1999 Julie Saul Gallery, New York
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
"Contemporary Photo Art from Japan" Neuer erliner Kunstvereein, Berlin, Germany
"Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue" Leslie Tonkonow Art works + Profects, New York
"Wildflowers" The Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY
"Skin Deep: A Survey of Interior Imaging from X-ray to MRI" Julie Saul Gallery, NY
1998 "Through the Lens: Time, Space and Matter" Rye Arts enter, Rye, NY
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
"New American Photography" Nassaulscher Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
"Flower Power" Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
"Disappearing Act" Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
"Formication" Lawrence Miller Gallery, New York
"Blooming" Karen McCready Fine Art, New York
"Paraphotography" The Maier Museum of Art, Lynchberg, MA
"Elusive Traces" Lawrence Miller Gallery, New York
1997 "New Photography 13" The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
"Eye of the Beholder, Photographs from the Avon Collection" International Center of Photography, New York
"Fossilization: Imprinted Light" The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
"With a Different Camera" The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
"Wall Works" Art in General, New York
"20/20 CAF Looks Forward and Back" Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, California curated by Nancy Doll
1996 "Japanese Photography: Form in/out part 3 Contemporary scenery" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"The Nature of Light" Joyce Golden Gallery, New York
"Pushing Image Paradigm" Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Oregon
"Dissimilar and Unrelated Sculpture" Baron/Boisante,
New York
"The Box" Foutouhi Cramer Gallery, New York
1995 "In and Out of Character" The Roger Smith Gallery, New York
"Blooms" Christine Rose Gallery, New York
"Aspects of Contemporary Photography-another reality" Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
"Vulnerability" Dahn Gallery, New York
"Transformations" Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
1994 "Experimental Vision" Denver Art Museum, Denver
"When the Body Becomes Art [The Organs and Body as Object]" Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
"Negative Energy" Real Art Ways, Hartford
"Camera Obscura/Obscura Camera" School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"Visualization-in the end of 20th century" The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Urawa
1993 "Foreign Ferns" Julie Saul Gallery, New York
"Photography" Baron/BoisantEGallery, New York
"3 Photographers" Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1992 "Shapeshifters" Amy Lipton Gallery, New York
"Rubber Soul" Ledis Flam, New York
"Culture Bites" curated by Muranushi Lederman, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, travels to Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
1991 "House of Value" curated by Robert Mahoney, Kathleen Cullen and Muranushi Lederman, 252 Lafayette, New York
"July Fourth" Muranushi Lederman, New York
1990 "Photography" Zabriskie Gallery, New York, curated by Leslie Tonkonow
"Veils" Art in General, New York
1989 "Up Date" White Columns, New York
"Selection 44" The Drawing Center, New York
1987 "Paint-Photography" Beass Cutler Gallery, New York
"Large as Life" Henry Street Settlement & Jamaica Arts Center, New York, curated by Kelly Jones
1986 "Contemporary Japanese Photographers" The Barcelona Museum, Barcelona, (traveled through Spain)
"Fathers" Asian Arts Institute, New York
1985 "Chill out New York" Kenkereba Gallery, New York
"Invitational" Freidas/Ordover Gallery, New York
1983 "Hong Kong - Tokyo - New York" Kenkereba Gallery, New York
1982 "Invitational" Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
"38 Japanese Photographers" Foto Kina, Kšln, Germany
"Looking Back-Looking Forward" Aldrich Museum of Art, Connecticut
1981 "K 551" Two Person Exhibition (with Kazuo Kamitaki) Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1980 Race Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1979 O. K. Harris Gallery, New York
1978 Willard Gallery, New York
"Personal Vision: Places/Spaces" Bronx Museum of Art, New York
1972 "Annual Exhibition of Painting" Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Painting and Sculpture Today" Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
"Selections from the Collection" Aldrrich Museum of Art, Connecticut
Warren Benedek Gallery, New York
1969 "Vision and Expression" George Eastman House, Rochester, New York

Grants / Awards and Artist in Residence
1999 Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
1998 Artist's Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
1997 The Catalogue Profect Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1994 Annual Fine Arts Grant, Tulane University, New Orleans
1991 New comb Department of Art, Photogram Workshop, Tulane University, New Orleans
1985 Robert Scull Foundation of Art, Fine Art Award

Public Collections
Aldrich Museum of Art, Connecticut
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Avon Products, Inc., New York, NY
Best Products, Richmond, Virginia
Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, Jacobson, New York, NY
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Goldman, Sachs, New York, NY
Merrill Lynch, New York, NY
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar Collage, Poughkeepsie, NY
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modrern Art, Saitama, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Ryerson Institute of Toronto, Toronto
The Rose Art Musrum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, Virginia
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi
Weil, Gotshall & Manges, New York, NY

Bibliography
Smith, Joel "The Shadow Inside" in Kunie Sugiura: Dark Matters/ Light Affairs, New York: Pamela Auchincloss Arts Management, 2000 (exhibition catalogue)
Auchincloss Arts Management, 2000 (exhibition catalogue)
Johnason, Ken "Indoor-Outdoor Relations Along The Hudson" The New york Times, July 21, 2000
Small, Irene "Kunie Sugiura" NY Arts Magazine, November 1999
Johnson, Ken, "Kunie Sugiura," Art Guide, The New York Times, November 5, 1999
Hiromi Nakamura, "The Possibilities of the Photograms," in Moderna per la Fotografia (exhibition catalogue), 1999
Edwards,Susan "Wildflowers," Katohah Museum of Art (exhibition brochure), 1999Klein, Michael, 厂ucid Encounters,モ World Art, Issue 20, 1999.Spring
Cinitis, Maris "New Photography / Kunie Sugiura," C Magazine, February, 1998
Cotter, Holland "New Photography 13" The New York Times, November 7, 1997
Hapgood, Susan "Kunie Sugiura (exhibition catalogue)", Tonkonow: New York, 1997
Umezu Gen "Photogram Today; Kunie Sugiura" in Fossilization: Imprinted Light., Saitama The Museum of Modern Art, 1997
Kopios, Janet "Kuie Sugiura at Xeit-Foto Salon and Kamakura" Art in America,December, 1995
"RAW Energy," The Hartford Advocate, November 17-24, 1994
Yang, Alice "Kunie Sugiura at Muranuchi Lederman Productions," Asian Art News, Vol.4, No.3, May / June, 1994
Aletti, Vince "Kunie Sugiura" The Village Voice, April 5, 1994
Aletti, Vince "Kunie Sugiura / Sigmar Polke / Ingrid Dinter / Rosemarie Trockel," The Village Voice, January 19, 1993
Hagen, Charles "Foreign Ferns," The New Yorker, December 17, 1993
Sischy, Ingrid "The Sensitive Plant," The New Yorker, December 27, 1993
Schwendenwein, Jude "Conceptual Art at Wesleyan Intrigues, Mystifies" The Hartford Courant, September 12, 1993
Zimmer, William "Culture Bites: Slides of Modern Life in New London," The New York Times, February 23, 1992
Grundberg, Andy "Photography" The New York Times, August 10, 1990
Aletti, Vince "Vells" The Village Voice, May 29, 1990
Rivera, Sophie "Nueva Luz" Vol.3, No.1, 1988
Lipton, Karin "Asian Reflections on Fathers," Newsday, June 11, 1986
OユReilly, Kathleen "Centerfold," The Village Voice, September 1984
Glueck, Grace "The Artist's Artist," Art News, November 1982
Massie, Rebecca, The Lewis Contemporary Art Fund Collection Catalogue, The Virginia Museum "Reviews and Previews," Artnews, April 1972
Case, William D "In the Galleries," Arts Magazine April 1972
Case, William D "In the Galleries," Arts Magazine March 1972
A.D.Coleman "Portogallo," The Village Voice, June 1969
De Schein, Jacob "Solarized Color," The New York Times, May 1969
Brown, Mary "10 Hour Color Prints," US Camera, November 1968
Scully, Julia, "CKO", Modern Photography, February 1968


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