Yui Kugimiya
Born in 1981, Tokyo, Japan. Lives and works in New York, US
2010 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2007 MFA, Yale University School of Art painting/printmaking, New Haven, CT
2004 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2004 Norfolk summer program, Yale University, Norfolk, CT
2001-03 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Selected Public Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Fundacion AMMA, Mexico City, Mexico
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Robot Open Sesame, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY
2014 East River, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, NY
2012 Donut and Horizon, Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico
2011 Cat and Bird Paintings, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2010 Live Paintings, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2009 Zoo Psychology, Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico
Group Exhibitions
2023 The Constitution of Japan, Mujinto-Production, Tokyo, Japan
2022 The Day I Saw You, The Leonora Carrington Museum, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
2022 Spikes That Bite, Margot Samel, New York, NY
2021 Video Art Series, Video Installation, Trexler Hall, Allentown Art Museum,PA
2021 Retouch Me Not, curated by Yu Araki and Yusuke Sasaki, The 13th Yebis International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2019 Club Damfino, PAGE (NYC), New York, NY
2019 Coffee, curated by Yui Kugimiya, Situation, New York, NY
2017 Like, curated by Richard Kern, Galerie Sebastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland
2016 A Verdant Summer, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Muscular, curated by John McAllister, KANSAS, New York, NY
2014 2014 White Columns Benefit Exhibition + Auction, White Columns, New York, NY 2014 Didn’t Start the Fire, curated by Nadia Ayari, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York 2013 The StandART Video Program, curated by Creative Time, The Standard Hotel, multiple locations
2012 MoMA Media Lounge, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2010 Salad Days, the Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Daiwa Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima, Japan
2010 Foreign Object, Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY
2009 A Pink Panther, Smith-Stewart at KUMUKUMU Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Leaves Of Ash, Suzanne Tarasieve Paris, Paris, France
Publications
2023 Yui Kugimiya, Spiritual, Hassla Books, New York, NY
2011 Exhibition Catalogue, Daiwa Press Viewing Room Vol. 11, Daiwa Press Co., Ltd. November, 2011
Awards
2010 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Financial Award
2007 Yale School of Art, Barry Schactman Prize
2005 Massachusetts College of Art. Pace Award
2004 Stoeckel Trust. Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship
Press
2021 Yuki Hirakawa, Siri Siri Magazine Assemblage, May 20, 2021
2021 Podcast Interview, "Art on A Postcard" Series 6-Episode 3, by Rosa Tort
2018 Paul Laster, "Highlights from Dallas Art Fair 2018, Art Asia Pacific Blog, April, 2018
2017 Podcast Interview, "Sound and Vision", Episode 52, by Brian Alfred
2017 Cristina Sandoval, "Una Semana con Yui", Y-NOT Magazine Arte (online), January, 2017
2016 Clarisa Anell, "Portada Naked Table, Colorea 10 cotidlano•, Reforma Newspaper, July 22, 2016, Primera Fila: p. 14
2014 Interview with Yul Kugimiya, Kunsthall Stavanger Blog (online), August 2011 Madoka Moriguchi, “Gallery / Yui Kugimiya Exhibition”, the Kyoto Shimbun, the morning edition, The Kyoto Shimbun co., Ltd., May 28, 2011, Art: p. 9
2011 A+l Exhibiton / Yui Kugimiya "Cat and Bird Paintings', the Asashi Shimbun, the evening edition, The Asahi Shimbun co., May 18, 2011, p.4
2011 Ann Wilson Lloyd, Art in America, September 2010. P.137
2010 Cate McQuaid "Stop-motion discourse", The Boston Globe, March 10, 2010
2009 Garcia, Carnelia "Field Guide: Mexico City", Modern Painters, September 2009, p. 18 2008 "Voices; Beyond Fluff", NY Arts Magazine, May/June 2008. p. 23
2007 "Journal Drawings", The Journal, Entry XIX — Spring
2006 "unknowns", The Journal, Entry 16 • Volume 06. p. 1 56-159