Kunie Sugiura

is a Japanese photographer, painter, and multimedia artist, living in New York City. In 2007 she won the Domestic Photographer Higashikawa Prize.

Life and work Sugiura was 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.

In the 1980s, she adopted the classic black-and-white photogram technique as a means for her artistic expression.

Personal life She lives and works in New York City.

Publications Books by Sugiura Dark Matters/Light Affairs. New York, NY: Arts Management, 2000. . With essays by Bill Arning and Joel Smith. Artists and Scientists. Nazraeli, 2007. .

Books with contributions by Sugiura I'm So Happy You Are Here. New York: Aperture, 2024. . A piece on each of 25 Japanese women photographers.

Awards Artist's Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, 1998 Domestic Photographer Prize, Higashikawa Prize, 2007 Solo exhibitions Warren Benedek Gallery, New York City, 1972 Dark Matters / Light Affairs, University of California, Davis, 2001 Time Emit, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, New Jersey, 2008 Sugiura Kunié: Aspiring Experiments: New York in 50 Years, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2018

Group exhibitions Vision and Expression, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, 1969 "Sex & Nature" were included in the Annual Exhibition of Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972

Collections Sugiura's work is held in the following permanent collections: Denver Art Museum Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art, New York Tokyo Photographic Art Museum