KuniE Sugiura
     
1942   Born in Nagoya, Japan
1967   BFA, The School of Art Institute of Chicago
     
Solo Exhibitions
1969   Portogallo Gallery, New York
1972   Warren Benedek Gallery, New York
1978   Ginza Kaiga Kan, Tokyo
1979   Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1986   Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
    Art City, New York
1987   Art City, New York
1989   Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
    White Room, White Colums, New York
1991   Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
1993   Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
    il tempo, Tokyo
    Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
    Kanagawa Science Park Gallery, Kawasaki
    Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1994   Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
    Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York (project room)
1995   Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
    Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1996   Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1997   Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
    Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects, New York
1998   Aichi Perfectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
    Judy Ann Goldman Gallery, Boston
    Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1999   Galeria Civica Modena, Modena (Italy)
    Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects, New York
2000   Gallery Gan, Tokyo
    Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
    Raffaella Cortese Gallery (Project Room), Milan
    Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
    Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2001   "membranes", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
    "Dark Matters / Light Affairs", Richard L. Nelson Gallery & Fine Arts Collection, University of
California, Davis
"The Artist Papers", Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor
Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
2002   Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects, New York
    "The Artist Papers",Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
2003   Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects, New York
2004   "The Artist Papers bis",Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
2005   Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
2007   Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
     
Selected Group Exhibitions
1969   "Vision and Expression", George Eastman House, Rochester
1972   Warren Benedek Gallery, New York
    "Selections from the Collection",Aldrrich Museum of Art, Aldrich
"Painting and Sculpture Today", Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
"Annual Exhibition of Painting", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1978   "Personal Vision: Places/Spaces", Bronx Museum of Art, New York
    Willard Gallery, New York
1979   O.K. Harris Gallery, New York
1980   Race Gallery, Philadelphia
1981   "K.551", Two Persons Exhibition(with Kazuo Kamitaki)
1982   "Looking Back-Looking Forward", Aldrich Museum of Art
    "38 Japanese Photographers", Foto Art 1 (Foto Kina), K?ln
"Invitational", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
1983   "Hong Kong - Tokyo - New York", Kenkeleba Gallery, New York
1985   "Invitational", Freidas/Ordover Gallery, New York
    "Paris - New York - Tokyo", Tsukuba Museum of Photography '85, Tsukuba City
"Chill out New York", Kenkereba Gallery, New York
1986   "Fathers", Asian Arts Institute, New York
    "FotographIa Japonesa Contempornea", Casa Elizalde, Baecelona and traveled through Spain
1987   "Large as Life", Henry Street Settlement & Jamaica Arts Center, New York, curated by Kelly Jones
    "Paint - Photography", Beass Cutler Gallery, New York
1989   "Selection 44", The Drawing Center, New York
    "Orientalism", White Museum (World Design Expo '89), Nagoya
    "Up Date", White Columus, New York
1990   "Veils", Art in General, New York
    "Artists Who Love Nature: From Barbizon School to Contemporary Photography", The Green Museum (The International Garden and Greenery Exposition), Osaka
"Photography", Zabriski Gallery, New York, cureted by Leslie Tonkanow
"Perspectiven - Fotografinnen in Deutschland und Japan", Kawasaki City Museum
1991   "July Fourth", Muranushi Lederman, New York
"House of Value", 252 Lafayette, New York, curated by Robert Mahoney, Kathleen Cullen and Muranushi Lederman
"Culture Bites", Cummings Art Center, Conneticut College, New London, curated by
Muranushi Lederman
"Shapeshifters", Amy Lipton Gallery, New York
"Rubber Soul", Ledis Flam, New York
1993   "3 Photographers", Zabriskie Gallery, New York
    "Photos", Baron / BoisantE Gallery, New York
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
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, NJ
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
"Dissimilar and Unrelated Sculpture", Baron/Boisante, New York
"The Box", Foutouhi Cramer Gallery, New York
1997   "fossilization: imprinted light", the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Urawa
    "New Photography 13", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Eyes of the Beholder, Photographs from the Avon Collection", International Center of
Photography, New York
"With a Different Camera", The Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
"Wall Works", Art in General, New York
1998   "Photography", The Maier Museum of Art, Lynchberg, VA
    "Elusive Traces", Fine Art Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
"Blooming", Karen McCready Fine Art, New York
"Formication", Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
"Flower Paper", Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City
"New American Photography", Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (Germany)
1999   "Internationale Fototage Herten", Herten (Germany)
    "Skin/deep:Xrays to MRI", Julie Saul Gallery, New York
"Wild Flowers", Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
"Pencils as nature", Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects, New York
"NICAF(Contemporary Art Fair of Japan)", Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
"Zeitgen?ssische Fotokunst aus Japan", Ne
er Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Berlin
2000   "Animal Magnetism", Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
    "Gardens of Pleasure", John Micheal Lohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
"Significant Other : The Hand of Man in Animal Imagery", Photographie Resouse Center,
Boston
2001   "Wet! ",Luise Ross Gallery, NY
    "This is not aPhoto ",University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2002   "Shadow Play ",Roger Smith Gallery, NYC
    "True Blue ",Jane Jackson FA, Atlanta, GA
"Retro Spectacle", Denver Art Museum
" Photo Genesis ",Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
" Works on Paper ",Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC, Greensboro
2003   " Visions & Revisions ",Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
    " How Human, Life in the Post-Genome Era ", ICP, New York,
" The Shadow " ,Vestsjaellands Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2006   "Light and Shadow", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
    "EPHEMERAL-flash for eternity", Aomori Contemporary Art Centre Artist in Residence Program 2006/Spring
Awards / Grants
1985   Robert Scull Foundation of Art, Fine Art Award
1991   New comb Department of Art, Photogram Workshop, Tulane University, New Orleans
1997   The Catalogue Project Grant, New York Foundation for the Artists
1998   Artist's Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Artists
1999   Peter S. Reed Grant, NY
     
Public Collections
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond
Aldrich Museum of Art, Aldrich
George Eastman House, Rochester
Ryerson Institute of Tronto, Tronto
Best Products, Richmond
Tochigi Prefectural museum of Art, Utsunomiya
Denver Art Museum, Denver
Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Avon Products, Inc., New York
Goldman, Saches, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Progressive Corporation, Cleaveland
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Fidelity Investments
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, Jacobson, New York
Weil, Gotshalle Manges, New York
Vassar Collage, Poughkeapbie, New York
Austin Museum of Fine Arts, Austin, Tex.
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Kitakyushu Municipal of Art
     
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