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Kunie@SUGIURA

Born in Nagoya, Japan
BFA, The School of Art Institute of Chicago
Lives and Works in N.Y

qSolo Exhibitionsr

2008
"Time Emit", Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, N.J. (curated by Charles Steinback) Ephemera and Shadow: 1989|2006, Gallery M, Nagoya, Japan

2007
"Sex & Nature: Works from 1969 to 1971 and The Artist Papers", Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
"Color Works", Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan

2005
Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston

2004
"The Artist Papers bis", ZEIT-FOTO SALON Tokyo

2003
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks • Projects, New York

2002
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks • Projects, New York
"The Artist Papers", ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo

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

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

1999
Galeria Civica Modena, Modena (Italy)
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks • Projects, New York

1998
Aichi Perfectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
Judy Ann Goldman Gallery, Boston
ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo

1997
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks • Projects, New York

1996
ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo

1995
ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

1994
Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York (project room)

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

1991
Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York

1989
ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo
White Room, White Colums, New York

1987
Art City, New York

1986
ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo
Art City, New York

1979
ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo

1978
Ginza Kaiga Kan, Tokyo

1972
Warren Benedek Gallery, New York

1969
Portogallo Gallery, New York


q Selected Group Exhibitions r

2009
"Pictures: Tracey Baran, Nikki S. Lee, Laurel Nakadate, & Kunie Sugiura", Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
"Infinite Patience: James Drake, Kunie Sugiura, Stanley Whitney", Haunch of Venison, New York

2008
"Propagating Eden: Uses and Techniques of Nature Printing in Botany and Art" International Print Center, New York

2007
"Contemporary Outlook: Japan", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
" Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary Photography", University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
"Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York", Japan Society Gallery, New York
"The Photograph; What You See & What You Donft", Museum at Tokyo University of Fine Art, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
"JAPAN Caught by Camera", Shanghai Art Museum

2006
"Light and Shadow", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo

2005
"The Shadow ",Vestsjaellands Kunstmuseum, Denmark

2003
"Visions• Revisions",Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA "How Human, Life in the Post-Genome Era", ICP, New York

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

2001
"Wet! ", Luise Ross Gallery, NY "This is not aPhoto",University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA

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

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
"ZeitgenoNssische Fotokunst aus Japan", NeuNer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Berlin

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)

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

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

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

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
"3 Photographers", Zabriskie Gallery, New York
"Photos",Baron / BoisanteL Gallery, New York

1992
"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

1991
"July Fourth", Muranushi Lederman, New York
"House of Value", 252 Lafayette, New York, curated by Robert Mahoney, Kathleen Cullen and Muranushi Lederman

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

1989
"Selection 44", The Drawing Center, New York
"Orientalism", White Museum (World Design Expo '89), Nagoya
"Up Datez", White Columus, New York

1987
"Large as Life", Henry Street Settlement•Jamaica Arts Center, New York, curated by Kelly Jones
"Paint- Photography", Beass Cutler Gallery, New York

1986
"Fathers",Asian Arts Institute, New York
"FotographiLa Japonesa ContemporaLnea", Casa Elizalde, Baecelona and traveled through Spain

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

1983
"Hong Kong - Tokyo - New York", Kenkeleba Gallery, New York

1982
"Looking Back-Looking Forward", Aldrich Museum of Art
"38 Japanese Photographers", Foto Art 1 (Foto Kina), KoNln
"Invitational", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York

1981
"K.551", Two Persons Exhibition(with Kazuo Kamitaki)

1980
Race Gallery, Philadelphia

1979
O.K. Harris Gallery, New York

1978
"Personal Vision: Places/Spaces", Bronx Museum of Art, New York Willard Gallery, New York

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

1969
"Vision and Expression", George Eastman House, Rochester


q Awards / Grants r

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


qPublic Collectionsr

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N. Y.
Austin Museum of Art
Avon Products, Inc., New York
Best Products, Inc., Richmond, Va.
Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
The Capital Group, Los Angeles
Denver Art Museum
Fidelity Investments, Boston
The Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, Jacobson, New York
George Eastman House, Rochester, N. Y.
Goldman, Sachs, New York
Kitakyushu Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Merrill Lynch, New York
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wa.
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, Va.
Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Art
Vivendi Universal, Paris
The Weatherspoon Art Museum
Weil, Gotshall & Manges, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.