is a renowned Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 photographer. Her chosen medium is the photogram

Photogram

A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a photo-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The result is a negative shadow image varying in tone, depending on the transparency of the objects used...

.

Her first group exhibition was Vision and Expression, at the George Eastman House

George Eastman House

The George Eastman House is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the museum is also a leader in film preservation and...

, in Rochester, New York in 1969 and her first one-person exhibition was at the Warren Benedek Gallery in New York City in 1972.

She received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967 and lives and works in New York City.

Books

• Sugiura, Kunié, Dark matters, light affairs, New York, NY : Arts Management, 2000. ISBN 0295980389
• Sugiura, Kunié, Artists and Scientists, Nazraeli Press, 2007. ISBN 9781590051900

Further reading

• Arning, Bill; Smith, Joel, Kunié Sugiura, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
  Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
  The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is a teaching museum, major art repository, and exhibition space on the campus of Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. It was originally founded in 1864 as the Vassar College Art Gallery. It displays works from antiquity to contemporary times...
  
  , Vassar College
  Vassar College
  Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...
  
  , 2000. Essays on Sugiura's work.
• Glueck, Grace, "ART IN REVIEW; Kunié Sugiura -- 'The Artist Papers and Other Works'", The New York Times, January 18, 2002