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Yui Kugimiya was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1981. She earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2007. Kugimiya also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2010. Early in her career, Kugimiya’s work centered around animation, which combined techniques of oil painting and stop-motion animation, often employing feline personality and narrative with audio recorded from real moments in life. Kugimiya’s expertise is in the medium of oil paint. Since 2014, Kugimiya has since stopped using manufactured paints and began hand making her own oil paints from dry pigment to explore color; pink hues are frequently used in her palette.Kugimiya’s work is represented in public collections internationally at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown; and the Fundación Amparo y Manuel, Ciudad de México.
Selected solo exhibitions include Marlborough Gallery, New York; Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; and Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Ciudad de México. Selected group exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Leonora Carrington Museum, San Luis Potosi, Galerie Sebastien Bertrand, Genève; Margot Samel, New York; PAGE (NYC), New York; Taymour Grahne Projects, New York; and The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn.