Kunié Sugiura
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January 24 - March 7, 2026
Opening Reception | January 24, 6-8pm
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Kunié Sugiura (b. 1942, Nagoya, Japan) received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967, and has lived and worked in New York since the late 1960s. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kunié Sugiura: Something Else at Alison Bradley Projects (New York, NY), Boundaries and Coexistence at Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), and Kunié Sugiura: Discoveries at the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY). Recent group shows include Shifting Landscapes at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY), Life with Photography: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum at the George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY), MOMAT Collection at The National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo, Japan), and I’M SO HAPPY YOU ARE HERE at Rencontres d’Arles (Arles, France). Her work is held in numerous public collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Denver Art Museum; Tate Modern, London; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.