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| Born: |
Nagoya, Japan, 1942. Lives and works in New York City. |
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Education:
| 1967 |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA. |
Grants/Awards:
| 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 |
| 1999 |
Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant |
Solo Exhibitions:
| 2007 |
Sex & Nature: Works from 1969 to 1971 and the Artist Papers, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects, New York |
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Color Works, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan |
| 2005 |
The Artist Papers, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston |
| 2004 |
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo |
| 2003 |
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects, New York |
| 2002 |
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo |
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Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects, New York |
| 2001 |
Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan |
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Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis |
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University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor |
| 2000-1 |
Kunié Sugiura: Dark Matters/Light Affairs (traveling retrospective) |
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Vassar, Loeb Art Center; Mass. College of Art Gallery; Gallery Gan, Tokyo |
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Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan |
| 2000 |
Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston |
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Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan |
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Gallery Gan, Tokyo |
| 1999 |
Galleria Civica Modena, Modena, Italy |
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Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects, New York |
| 1998 |
Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston |
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Zeit-foto, Tokyo |
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Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya |
| 1997 |
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects, New York |
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Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1996 |
Zeit-foto, Tokyo |
| 1995 |
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo |
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Zeit-foto, Tokyo |
| 1994 |
Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York |
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Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York |
| 1993 |
Ezra & Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT |
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KSP Gallery, Kawasaki Shi, Japan |
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Zeit-foto, Tokyo |
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Il Tempo, Tokyo |
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Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1991 |
Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York |
| 1989 |
The White Room, White Columns, New York |
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Zeit-foto, Tokyo |
| 1987 |
Art City, New York |
| 1986 |
Art City, New York |
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Zeit-foto, Tokyo |
| 1979 |
Zeit-foto, Tokyo |
| 1978 |
Ginza Kaiga Kan, Tokyo |
| 1972 |
Warren Benedek Gallery, New York |
| 1969 |
Portogallo Gallery, New York |
Selected Group Exhibitions:
| 2007 |
Contemporary Outlook: Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary Photography, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor |
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Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York, Japan Society, NYC |
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The Photograph: What You See and What You Don't, Museum at Tokyo University of Fine Art, Ueno, Tokyo |
| 2006 |
Light and Shadow, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography |
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Ephemeral, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Japan |
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Math Counts, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT |
| 2005 |
Pairs, Groups, and Grids, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects, New York |
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85/05 Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan |
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Focus on Photography, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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Vestsjaellands Kunstmuseum, Denmark The Shadow |
| 2003 |
ICP, New York, How Human, Life in the Post-Genome Era |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Visions & Revisions |
| 2002 |
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC, Greensboro, Works on Paper |
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, Photo Genesis |
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Denver Art Museum, Retro Spectacle |
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Jane Jackson FA, Atlanta, GA, True Blue |
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Roger Smith Gallery, NYC, Shadow Play |
| 2001 |
Luise Ross Gallery, NY, Wet! |
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University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, This is not a Photo |
| 2000 |
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, Significant Other: The Hand of Man in Animal Imagery |
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John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, Gardens of Pleasure |
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Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, Animal Magnetism |
| 1999 |
Julie Saul Gallery, New York |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Contemporary Photo Art from Japan |
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Leslie Tonkonow, New York, NY, Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue |
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Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, Wildflowers |
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Julie Saul, New York, NY, Skin Deep: A Survey of Interior Imaging from X-ray to MRI |
| 1998 |
Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY, Through the Lens: Time, Space and Matter |
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Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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Nassauischer Kunstverein, Berlin, New American Photography |
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Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO, Flower Power |
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Leslie Tonkonow, New York, NY, Disappearing Act |
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Lawrence Miller Gallery, New York, Formication |
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Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, Blooming |
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The Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA, Paraphotography |
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Fine Arts Center Galleries, Univ. of R.I., Kingston, R.I., Elusive Traces |
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The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Fossilization: Imprinted Light |
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The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, With a Different Camera |
| 1997 |
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, New Photography 13 |
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Photographs from the Avon Collection, I.C.P., NYC, Eye of the Beholder |
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Art in General, NYC, Wall Works |
| 1996 |
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Japanese Photography: Contemporary |
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Landscape 1980-1995 |
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Joyce Golden Gallery, NYC, The Nature of Light |
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Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, Pushing Image Paradigms |
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Baron/Boisante Gallery, NYC, Dissimilar and Unrelated Sculpture |
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Foutouhi Cramer Gallery, NYC, The Box |
| 1995 |
Kawasaki City Museum, Aspects of Contemporary Photography: Another Reality |
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Dahn Gallery, NYC, Vulnerability |
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Trans Hudson Gallery, NYC, Transformations |
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CristineRose Gallery, NYC, Blooms |
Bibliography:
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Scully, Julia, CKO, Modern Photography, Feb. 1968. |
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Brown, Mary, 10 Hour Color Prints, US Camera, Nov. 1968. |
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De Schein, Jacob, Solarized Color, New York Times, May 1969. |
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A.D.Coleman, Portogallo, Village Voice, June 1969. |
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Case, William D., In the Galleries, Arts Magazine, March 1972. |
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Case, William D., In the Galleries, Arts Magazine, April 1972. |
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Reviews and Previews, ArtNews, April 1972. |
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Massie, Rebecca, Lewis Contemporary Art Fund Collection Catalogue, Virginia Museum. |
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Glueck, Grace, The Artist’s Artist, ArtNews, Nov. 1982. |
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Smith, Roberta, Around Town, Village Voice, Sept., 1984. |
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O’Reilly, Kathleen, Centerfold, Village Voice, May 1986. |
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Lipton, Karin, Asian Reflections on Fathers, Newsday, June 11, 1986. |
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Rivera, Sophie, Nueva Luz, Vol.3, No.1, 1988. |
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Aletti, Vince, Veils, Village Voice, May 29, 1990. |
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Grundenburg, Andy, Photography, New York Times, Aug. 10, 1990. |
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Zimmer, William, Light, Woodcuts, and Photographic Paper, New York Times, Sept. 12, 1993 |
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Schwendenwein, Jude, Conceptual Art at Wesleyan Hartford Courant, Sept. 12, 1993. |
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Sischy, Ingrid, The Sensitive Plant, New Yorker, Dec. 27, 1993. |
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Hagen, Charles, Foreign Ferns, New York Times, Dec. 17, 1993. |
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Aletti, Vince, Kunié Sugiura/Sigmar Polke/Ingrid Dinter/Rosemarie Trockel, Village Voice, Jan. 19,1993. |
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Yang, Alice, Kunié Sugiura at Muranushi Lederman Productions, Asian Art News, May/June, 1994. |
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Raynor, Vivien, In Hartford New York Times, Nov. 20, 1994. |
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RAW Energy, Hartford Advocate, Nov. 17-24, 1994. |
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Starger, Steve, RAW’s Negative Energy, Journal Inquirer, Nov. 4, 1994. |
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Koplos, Janet, Kunié Sugiura at Zeit-Foto Salon and Kamakura, Art in America, Dec. 1995. |
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Umezu, Gen, Photogram Today: Kunié Sugiura, Saitama: Museum of Modern Art, 1997. |
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Hapgood, Susan, Kunié Sugiura (exhibition catalogue), Tonkonow: New York, 1997. |
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Cotter, Holland, New Photography 13, The New York Times, Nov. 7, 1997. |
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Glueck, Grace, Kunié Sugiura, The New York Times, Nov. 28, 1997. |
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Cinitis, Maris, New Photography/ Kunié Sugiura, C Magazine, Feb., 1998. |
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Silver, Joanne, Photogram images defy objects’ nature, Boston Herald, July 31, 1998. |
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Perle, Christine, Kunié Sugiura, c-plus, Summer, 1998. |
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Klein, Michael, Lucid Encounters, World Art, Issue 20, Spring 1999. |
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Edwards, Susan, Wildflowers, Katonah Museum of Art (exhibition brochure), 1999. |
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Hiromi, Nakamura, Possibilities of Photograms, in Modena per la Fotografia 1999. |
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Johnson, Ken, Kunié Sugiura, Art Guide, The New York Times, Nov. 5, 1999. |
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Small, Irene, Kunié Sugiura, NY Arts Magazine, Nov. 1999. |
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Johnson, Ken, Indoor-Outdoor Relations Along the Hudson, New York Times, July 21, 2000. |
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Arning, Bill, Making Time Stutter, in Kunié Sugiura: Dark Matters/ Light Affairs, NY: Pamela Auchincloss, 2000. |
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Smith, Joel, The Shadow Inside, in Kunié Sugiura: Dark Matters/ Light Affairs, NY: Pamela Auchincloss, 2000. |
Public Collections:
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Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
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Avon Products, Inc., New York |
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Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA |
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Best Products, Inc., Richmond, VA |
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Denver Art Museum, Denver, Co |
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Fidelity Investments, Boston |
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Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
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Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, Jacobson, New York |
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Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY |
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George Eastman House, Rochester, NY |
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Goldman Sachs, New York |
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Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA |
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Merrill Lynch, New York |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan |
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National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
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Progressive Corp., Cleveland |
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Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography |
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Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA |
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Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA |
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Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Art, Japan |
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Weil, Gotshall & Manges, New York |
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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