1942 Born in Nagoya, Japan
1967 Graduated from School of The Art Institute of Chicago, BFA
Now lives and works in New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Kunié Sugiura; an intimate survey curated by Pauline Vermare, Alison Bradley Projects, New York
2022 Kunié Sugiura, PURPLE, Kyoto JAPAN
Women Labor, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo JAPAN
Painting + Photo are 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 years, 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 are always on my mind / you are always in my 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 Sex & Nature: Works from 1969 to 1971 and The Artist Papers, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Color Works, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
2005 The Artists Papers, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
2004 Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
2003 Artists and Scientists, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2002 The Artist Paper, Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
The Artist Papers and other works, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2001 Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
Dark Matters / Light Affairs, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
Dark Matters/Light Affairs, University 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 Gallery, 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 and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
KSP Gallery, 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 City, New York
1986 Art City, New York
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
1979 Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
1978 Ginza Kaiga Kan, Tokyo
1972 Warren Benedek Gallery, New York
1969 Portogallo Gallery, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 “MEMORIES 03” selected by Hozu Yamamoto, CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo
Women and Abstraction, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
ONE WITH ETERNITY: YAYOI KUSAMA IN THE HIRSHHORN COLLECTION, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Wahington, DC
The Searchers, The Philadelphia Art Alliance at University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Yebisu International Festival for Art & 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, New 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 New 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 Anniversary Group Exhibition: Survived!, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Anna Atkins Refracted: Contemporary Works, New York Public Library, New York
Soft Focus, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
2017 Deadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy and His Circle, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York
The (Partial) Autobiography of an Art Gallery, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2016 A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, N.Y.
A Change of Heart, Curated by Chris Sharp, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, 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 and 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 image – Picasso, Matisse, Warhol, Nagoya / Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan
Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 to Today, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Imprints, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2013 Tamamono: From the 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: Art and Nature, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Osez!, Sometimes, New York
Morphology of Emptiness, National Museum of 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 Whitney, 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, International 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 Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Japan Caught by Camera, Shanghai Art Museum
Resounding Spirit: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York, Japan Society Gallery, New York
The Photograph; What You See & What You Don’t, Museum at Tokyo University of Fine Art, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Light and Shadow – First There Was Light: First Encounters with Light in Photographic Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Ephemeral – flash for eternity, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Japan
Math Counts, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
2005 Pairs, Groups, and Grids, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Out 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, Berlin, German
85/05, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
Focus On: New Photography, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
The Shadow, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark
2004 Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary Photography, Japanisches Kunstinstitut, Cologne, Germany; Casa Asia, Barcelona; arts 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 Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
Genomic Issue(s): Art and Science, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York
Mask of Japan, Aura Gallery, Shanghai
2002 Works on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina PhotoGenesis: Opus 2, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Retrospectacle: 25 Years of Collecting Modern 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, New York
This is Not a Photograph, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego;
Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; DePaul University, Chicago; Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
2000 Significant Other: The Hand of Man in Animal Imagery, Photographic Resource Center, Boston
Gardens of Pleasure, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Animal Magnetism, Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Process/Reprocess: Japan and the West, 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 Art Museum, Katonah, N.Y.
Skin Deep: A Survey of Interior Imaging 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 Art, New York
Paraphotography, The Maier Museum of Art, Lynchberg, Virginia
Elusive Traces, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R.I.
1997 New Photography 13, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Eye of the Beholder, Photographs from the 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 Works, Art in General, New York
1996 Japanese Photography: Contemporary Landscape 1980–1995, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The Nature of Light, Joyce Golden Gallery, New York
Pushing Image Paradigms, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
Dissimilar & Unrelated Sculpture, Baron/Boisante, New York The Box, Foutouhi Cramer Gallery, New York
1995 Aspects of Contemporary Photography: Another Reality, Kawasaki City Museum, Japan
Vulnerability, Dahn Gallery, New York
Transformations, Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, N.J.
Blooms, ChristineRose Gallery, New York
In and Out of Character; Japanese Women Artists, The Roger Smith Gallery, New York
1994 Visualization At the End of the 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 Art 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, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut; Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
1991 House of Value, 252 Lafayette Street, New York
July Fourth, Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
1990 Photography, Zabriskie Gallery, New York Veils, Art in General, New York
1989 Update, White Columns, New York Selections 44, The Drawing Center, New York
1987 Paint-Photography, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York
Large as Life, Henry Street Settlement and Jamaica Art Center, New York
1986 Contemporary Japanese Photographers, The Barcelona Museum, Barcelona Fathers, Asian Arts Institute, New York
1985 Chill Out New York, Kenkeleba House, New York
Invitational, Friedas/Ordover Gallery, New York
Paris, New 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 Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1981 Foto-Kina, Cologne, Germany
1980 Race Gallery, Philadelphia
1979 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York
1978 Willard Gallery, New York
Personal Vision: Places/Spaces, Bronx Museum of Art, New York
1972 Annual Exhibition of Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Selections From the Collection, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut Warren Benedek Gallery, New York
1969 Vision and Expression, George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.

GRANTS / AWARDS

2007 The 23rd Higashikawa Prize,
The Domestic Photographer Award 2003 The Scientist Papers, JGS Foundation, New York,2001
1999 Peter S.Reed Foundation Grant
1998 Artist’s Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
1997 The Catalogue Project Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1994 Annual Fine Arts Grant, Tulane University, New Orleans
1985 Robert Scull Foundation Grant
1982 ART AND URBAN RESOURCES GRANT

COMMISSIONS

2003 The Scientist 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, Dallas, TX
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
The Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, Jacobson, New York
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Goldman, Sachs, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Japan Foundation, Japan
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Kitakyushu Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Merrill Lynch, New York
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton,NJ
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (TOP), Japan
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Ryerson Institute of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art(SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Tate Modern, 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, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT