Kunié Sugiura

Kunié Sugiura (杉浦 邦恵, Sugiura Kunie, born 1942 in Nagoya, Japan^[1]) is a Japanese photographer, painter, and multimedia artist. Her chosen medium is the photogram.^[1]

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 where she received her B.F.A. in 1967.^[1]

Career[]

Her first group exhibition was Vision and Expression, at the George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York in 1969 and her first one-person exhibition was at the Warren Benedek Gallery in New York City in 1972.^[2] Her works "Sex & Nature" were included in the Annual Exhibition of Painting at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1972.

In 1980 she adopted the classic black and white photogram technique as a means for her artistic expression.^[3]

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. ISBN 0-295-98038-9.
• Sugiura, Kunié, Artists and Scientists, Nazraeli Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59005-190-0.

References[]

• Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. (in Japanese)

Further reading[]

• Carol Armstrong, “Cameraless: From Natural Illustrations and Nature Prints to Manual and Photogenic Drawings and Other Botanographs,” in Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 104.
• Arning, Bill; Smith, Joel, Kunié Sugiura, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 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

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