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Kunie SUGIURA

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

Solo Exhibitions
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

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 "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
1999 "NICAF(Contemporary Art Fair of Japan)", Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
    "Zeitgeno¨ssische Fotokunst aus Japan", Neu¨er 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 / Boisante´ 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
    "Fotographi´a Japonesa Contempora´nea", 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), Ko¨ln
    "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


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.