1942 Born in Nagoya, Japan 1967 Graduated from School of The Art Institute of Chicago, BFA Now lives and works in New York....
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Kunié Sugiura moved to Chicago in and received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in At SAIC she studied under a photographer in the New Bauhaus school, Kenneth Josephson (b.
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Born in 1942 in Nagoya, Japan, Sugiura attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1960s.
At the time there were few people who had chosen photography as their mode of artistic expression, but Sugiura decided on this medium, and her multifaceted explorations in photography have continued up until the present day.
After graduation, she moved to New York City and experimented with colour photography in the s, combined acrylic paint with photography on canvas in the s along with the contemporary Pop artists, and in the s began producing photograms created without a camera in a darkroom, generated by physical contact with the everyday objects found there.
This process seems to have contributed to establishing her unique style, in which the materiality of photography and the abstracted image are able to come together in an artwork.
When Sugiura began using f