Kunié Sugiura's multimedia practice over sixty years is charted in this new book, exploring her pioneering fusion of photography and painting through captivating imagery, edited by Erin O'Toole.
'We may assume (as a principle) that photography (photographing) is objective and painting (rendering) is subjective. Usually an artist chooses either approach, but I choose a method that ties the two together, makes them parallel or combines them.' Kunié Sugiura
From the beginning of her career in the mid-1960s, Kunié Sugiura has carved out a distinctive artistic practice which embraces unconventional photography techniques and multimedia expression. Sugiura's manifold engagements with the mediums of photography, painting, and sculpture are brought together in this collection of her defining works, mapping the expansion of her dynamic practice spanning nearly six decades.
Sugiura has consistently disrupted conventions of photography with new materials to generate multi-layered works. Her interests in corporeality, the natural world, and urban landscapes infuse her varied and experimental projects, which incorporate psychedelic and solarised imagery, photographs printed on canvas, photograms, and x-rays. Echoing her identity as a Japanese person living most of her life in New York City, her heterogenous work forms a generative exploration of hybrid forms which rebukes singular definition.
With an essay by editor Erin O'Toole
Erin O'Toole is a Curator and Head of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA. Her acclaimed exhibitions for SFMOMA include 'Kinship: Photography and Connection' (2023) and 'Anthony Hernandez' (2016) which travelled to the Fundacion MAPFRE in Madrid and the Milwaukee Art Museum. For her exhibitions 'April Dawn Alison' (2019) and 'Thought Pieces: Photographs by Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, and Hal Fischer' (2020), she edited accompanying catalogues published by MACK.
Kunie Sugiura (b. 1942, Nagoya) moved from her native Japan to the United States in 1963 to study photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her multimedia works can be found in private collections, museums, and cultural institutions, including The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Princeton University Art Museum; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; the Denver Art Museum; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; and the Tate Modern, London.
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