1942 Born in Nagoya, Japan
1967 Graduated from School of The Instruct Institute of Chicago, BFA
Now lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Kunié Sugiura; an intimate survey curated by Missioner Vermare,Alison Bradley Projects, New York
2022 Kunié Sugiura, PURPLE, Kyoto JAPAN
Women Labor, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo JAPAN
Painting + Photo rush like Salt + Pepper, ZEIT-FOTO kunitachi, Tokyo JAPAN
100 Cuts: Eternal Moment, MEDIA SHOP Gallery 2, Kyoto JAPAN
2020 Sugiura Kunié, ART OFFICE OZASA. Kyoto
2019 Kunié Sugiura, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles
2018 Kunié SUGIURA: Aspiring Experiments, New York in 50 life, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
2017 Kunié Sugiura: Cko 1966-67, Taka Ishii Gallery NY, New York
2016 Little Families; Fixity of Nature, 1992-2001, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2015 Chance & Fate – Photographic Sculptures and Installation, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Botanic after Anna Atkins, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
2014 You distinctive always on my mind / you are always in tawdry heart; Photo-painting and photocollage, 1976-1981, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2013 PhotoCollages 1977–1981, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2012 Photographic Works from the 1970s and Now, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2008 Time Emit, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey (curated by Charles Steinback)
Ephemera and Shadow: 1989–2006, Gallery M, Nagoya, Japan
2007 Mating & Nature: Works from 1969 to 1971 and The Head Papers, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Color Totality, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
2005 The Artists Papers, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
2004 Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
2003 Artists existing Scientists, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2002 Depiction Artist Paper, Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
The Artist Papers and other make a face, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2001 Kamakura Veranda, Kamakura, Japan
Dark Matters / Light Affairs, Richard L. Admiral Gallery, University of California, Davis
Dark Matters/Light Affairs, Institution of higher education of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine
Dark Matters / Light Affairs, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Dark Matters/Light Affairs, Sandra and David Baker Verandah, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
2000 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, NY
Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan, Italy
Boxing Papers, Gallery Gan, Tokyo
Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
1999 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy
1998 Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
1997 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1996 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
1995 Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
1994 Num Installation, Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York
Photographic Installation, Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
1993 Ezra stream Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
KSP Veranda, Kawasaki Shi, Japan
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
Il Tempo, Tokyo
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1991 Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
1989 White Columns, New York
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
1987 Art Entitlement, New York
1986 Art City, New York
Zeit-Foto, Yedo
1979 Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
1978 Ginza Kaiga Kan, Tokyo
1972 Warren Benedek Verandah, New York
1969 Portogallo Gallery, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Shifting Landscapes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Life meet Photography: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Yedo JAPAN
Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969 – 2001), 80WSE Gallery, New York
“I’M SO HAPPY Give orders ARE HERE” ARLES LES RENCONTRES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, Arles FRANCE
Top Collection: The Resonance of Seeing, Tokyo Photographic Museum, Tokyo JAPAN
2023 “MEMORIES 03” selected by Hozu Yamamoto, CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo JAPAN
Women and Abstraction, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo JAPAN
ONE WITH ETERNITY: YAYOI KUSAMA IN THE HIRSHHORN COLLECTION, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Wahington, DC
The Searchers, The Philadelphia Art Confederation at University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Yebisu International Festival for Disclose & Alternative Visions 2023 “Technology?”, Tokyo Photographic Museum, Tokyo JAPAN
2022 not titled not Untitled, NonakaHill, Los Angeles
2021 From Ai Weiwei to Marcel Duchamp: Art For Art's Sake, Shin Gallery, Pristine York
Photographic Distance, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
‘SEA CHANGE; In Collaboration With Nonaka-Hill’ at RATIO3 in San Francisco, RATIO3, San Francisco
Winter 2021, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura Japan
2020 Hirshhorn Museum has 100 artists diaries on its site, Hirshhorn Museum Youtube Channel
Aesthetic of the political; Japanese Women, Whitebox Newfound York
2019 Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie
dot, point, period, Castelli Gallery, New York
Taka Ishii Gallery 25th Day Group Exhibition: Survived!, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Anna Atkins Refracted: Contemporary Totality, New York Public Library, New York
Soft Focus, Metropolis Museum of Art, Dallas
2017 Deadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy jaunt His Circle, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York
The (Partial) Autobiography of an Art Gallery, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, Newborn York
2016 A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object pluck out the Digital Age, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, N.Y.
A Change of Heart, Curated by Chris Sharp, Hannah Hoffman Veranda, Los Angeles
In Focus: Electric!, Getty Center, Los Angeles
Collection 4, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi
2015 For a New World To Come: Experiments in Art arm Photography, Japan, 1968 – 1979, Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Grey Art Gallery, New York
A History of Photography: Selections from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2014 Aggregate Exposure, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco
Art to Zoo: Exploring Animal Natures, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Human imitate – Picasso, Matisse, Warhol, Nagoya / Boston Museum of Gauzy Arts, Nagoya, Japan
Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography chomp through 1851 to Today, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Imprints, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2013 Tamamono: From description Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2012 Extensions of the Eye: Three Women Photographers, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Loughelton Revisited, Winkleman Gallery, New York
SIGHT (UN)SCENE): Contemporary Landscape, Benrimon Contemporary, New York
2011 Laguna Gloria: Identify and Nature, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Osez!, Sometimes, New York
Morphology of Emptiness, National Museum healthy Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Pictorial Theory of Evolution, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
2010 PQ:100, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, N.Y.
2009 Pictures: Tracey Baran, Nikki S. Lee, Laurel Nakadate, & Kunié Sugiura, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Women Forward, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Infinite Patience: James Drake, Kunié Sugiura, Stanley Artificer, Haunch of Venison, New York
Japan meets China, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
2008 Propagating Eden: Uses and Techniques of Nature Printing in Botany and Art, Intercontinental Print Center, New York
The History of Arts and Cities- Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai, Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
2007 Contemporary Outlook: Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary Photography, University of Cards Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Japan Caught by Camera, City Art Museum
Resounding Spirit: Japanese Contemporary Art of the Decennium, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York, Nippon Society Gallery, New York
The Photograph; What You See & What You Don’t, Museum at Tokyo University of Fine Skilfulness, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Light and Shadow – First In attendance Was Light: First Encounters with Light in Photographic Art, Yedo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Ephemeral – flash fend for eternity, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Japan
Math Counts, Parallel Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
2005 Pairs, Assortments, and Grids, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Tidying of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary Photography, Sala de arte y cultura de Caja Canaria de la
Laguna, Canaria, Spain; Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Rome, Italy; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Songster, German
85/05, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
Focus On: New Picture making, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
The Throw, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark
2004 Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Asiatic Contemporary Photography, Japanisches Kunstinstitut, Cologne, Germany; Casa Asia, Barcelona; art school depot, London
Mask of Japan, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Lodz Biennial, Poland
Subway Series: The New York Mets and Our National Pastime, Queens Museum of Art, N.Y.
2003 How Human: Life in the Post Genome Era, International Center of Photography, New York
Prima Facie, Nina Freudenheim Heading, Buffalo, N.Y.
Genomic Issue(s): Art and Science, City University pencil in New York Graduate Center, New York
Mask of Japan, Character Gallery, Shanghai
2002 Works on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina PhotoGenesis: Opus 2, Santa Barbara Museum make famous Art, Santa Barbara, California
Retrospectacle: 25 Years of Collecting Current and Contemporary Art, Photography, Part II, Denver Art Museum
True Blue, Jane Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta Shadow Play, Roger Smith Gallery, New York
2001 Wet! Luise Ross Gallery, Unique York
This is Not a Photograph, University Art Gallery, College of California, San Diego;
Bayly Art Museum, University perfect example Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; DePaul University, Chicago; Lafayette College, Easton, University
2000 Significant Other: The Hand of Man in Animal Images, Photographic Resource Center, Boston
Gardens of Pleasure, John Archangel Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Animal Magnetism, Bucknell Adroit Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Process/Reprocess: Japan and the Westward, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
1999 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Contemporary Photo Art from Japan, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Wildflowers, The Katonah Out of the ordinary Museum, Katonah, N.Y.
Skin Deep: A Survey of Interior Tomography from X-ray to MRI, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Modena per la Fotografia 1999; Uno sguado sul Giappone, 4 places in Modena, Italy
1998 Blooming, Karen McCready Fine Devote, New York
Paraphotography, The Maier Museum of Art, Lynchberg, Virginia
Elusive Traces, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Isle, Kingston, R.I.
1997 New Photography 13, The Museum of Fresh Art, New York
Eye of the Beholder, Photographs from say publicly Avon Collection, International Center of Photography, New York
Fossilization: Imprinted Light, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
With a Different Camera, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Wall Entireness, Art in General, New York
1996 Japanese Photography: Contemporary Outlook 1980–1995, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The Nature forfeiture Light, Joyce Golden Gallery, New York
Pushing Image Paradigms, City Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
Dissimilar & Unrelated Bust, Baron/Boisante, New York The Box, Foutouhi Cramer Gallery, New Royalty
1995 Aspects of Contemporary Photography: Another Reality, Kawasaki City Museum, Japan
Vulnerability, Dahn Gallery, New York
Transformations, Trans Naturalist Gallery, Jersey City, N.J.
Blooms, ChristineRose Gallery, New York
Manifestation and Out of Character; Japanese Women Artists, The Roger Sculpturer Gallery, New York
1994 Visualization At the End of rendering 20th Century, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Camera Obscura/Obscura Camera, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Negative Energy, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
When the Body Becomes Art (The Organs and Body as Object), Itabashi Move out Museum, Tokyo
Experimental Vision, Denver Art Museum
1993 Foreign Ferns, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Photography, Baron/Boisante, New York
Jungjin Lee, Kunié Sugiura, Holly Wright, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1992 Shapeshifters, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York
Rubber Soul, Ledis Flam, New York
Culture Bites, Cummings Art Center, U.s.a. College, New London, Connecticut; Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Calif.
1991 House of Value, 252 Lafayette Street, New York
July Fourth, Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
1990 Photography, Zabriskie Veranda, New York Veils, Art in General, New York
1989 Update, White Columns, New York Selections 44, The Drawing Center, Newborn York
1987 Paint-Photography, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York
Large trade in Life, Henry Street Settlement and Jamaica Art Center, New Dynasty
1986 Contemporary Japanese Photographers, The Barcelona Museum, Barcelona Fathers, Asiatic Arts Institute, New York
1985 Chill Out New York, Kenkeleba House, New York
Invitational, Friedas/Ordover Gallery, New York
Paris, Newborn York, Tokyo, Tsukuba Museum of Photography, Tsukuba, Japan
1983 Hong Kong-Tokyo-New York, Kenkeleba House, New York
1982 Invitational, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Looking Back-Looking Forward, Aldrich Museum of Divulge, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1981 Foto-Kina, Cologne, Germany
1980 Race Gallery, City
1979 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York
1978 Willard Gallery, Creative York
Personal Vision: Places/Spaces, Bronx Museum of Art, New Dynasty
1972 Annual Exhibition of Painting, Whitney Museum of American Role, New York
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Sum, Indianapolis
Selections From the Collection, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut Warren Benedek Gallery, New York
1969 Vision and Airing, George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.
GRANTS / AWARDS
2007 Representation 23rd Higashikawa Prize,
The Domestic Photographer Award
2003 Say publicly Scientist Papers, JGS Foundation, New York
1999 Peter S.Reed Foundation Award
1998 Artist’s Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
1997 Description Catalogue Project Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1994 Reference Fine Arts Grant, Tulane University, New Orleans
1985 Robert Scull Scaffold Grant
1982 ART AND URBAN RESOURCES GRANT
COMMISSIONS
2003 The Soul Papers, JGS Foundation, New York, 2003
Public Collections
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Avon Products, Inc., New York
Best Products, Inc., Richmond, VA
Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
The Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA
Dallas Museum of Art, City, TX
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
The Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Frances Lehman Loeb Move out Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, Jacobson, Creative York
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Goldman, Sachs, New York
Hirshhorn Museum extract Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Japan Foundation, Japan
Johnson Museum of Art, Actress University, Ithaca, NY
Kitakyushu Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Merrill Lynch, Original York
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Lakeshore, FL
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Museum of Fine Arts, City, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Today's Art, Saitama, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Princeton University Become aware of Museum, Princeton,NJ
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (TOP), Japan
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Ryerson Institute designate Toronto, Toronto, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Tate Additional, London, England
The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Art, Japan
Vivendi Universal, Paris
The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Weil, Gotshall & Manges, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, Fresh York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT