Biography

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. Kugimiya’s early work centered around animation, which combined techniques of oil painting and stop-motion animation. Since then her paintings and drawings often employed birds and feline characters.

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; Bass Museum of Art; 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.

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