is a

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photographer A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographe ...

, painter, and multimedia artist. Her chosen medium is the

photogram A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The usual result is a negative shadow image th ...

Early life and education

Born in Nagoya, Japan, she moved to the United States in 1963 to study at the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum and ...

where she received her B.F.A. in 1967.

Career

Her first group exhibition was ''Vision and Expression'', at the

George Eastman House The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as ''George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film'', the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in ...

, in Rochester, New York in 1969 and her first one-person exhibition was at the Warren Benedek Gallery in New York City in 1972."CV: Kunié Sugiura"
Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York City Her works "Sex & Nature" were included in the Annual Exhibition of Painting at the

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in 1972. In 1980 she adopted the classic black and white photogram technique as a means for her artistic expression. 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). 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.

Awards

She has received the Higashikawa Prize (2007) and the Artist’s Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts (1998).

Personal life

She lives and works in New York City.

Selected works

Books

* Sugiura, Kunié, ''Dark matters, light affairs'', New York, NY : Arts Management, 2000. . * Sugiura, Kunié, ''Artists and Scientists'',

Nazraeli Press Nazraeli Press is a publisher of books of photography. It was founded in 1989, in Munich, Germany, by Chris Pichler and has been based in the USA since 1996. Nazraeli publishes roughly 30 new titles each year and has published over 400 with work ...

, 2007. .

References

*''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. .

, 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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sugiura, Kunie Japanese photographers 1942 births Living people People from Nagoya Japanese expatriates in the United States Japanese women photographers 20th-century photographers 21st-century photographers School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni 20th-century women photographers 21st-century Japanese women photographers