Kunié Sugiura (杉浦 邦恵) is a Japanese photographer, painter, and multimedia artist. Her chosen medium is the photogram.

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.

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. 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. 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