Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
2018
Sugiura Kunié: Aspiring Experiments, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
2017
Kunié Sugiura: Cko 1966–67, Taka Ishii Gallery, New York
2016
Kunié Sugiura: Little Families; Fixity of Nature, 1992–2001, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015
Chance & Fate—Photographic Sculptures and Installations, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Botanic after Anna Atkins, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
2014
You Are Always on My Mind/In My Hear—Photo Paintings and Collage 1976–1981, Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo
2013
Photographic Collages 1977–1981, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2012
Photographic Works from the 1970s and Now, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2008
Time Emit, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey (curated by Charles Steinback)
Ephemera and Shadow: 1989–2006, Gallery M, Nagoya, Japan
2007
Sex & Nature: Works from 1969 to 1971 and The Artist Papers, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Color Works, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
2005
The Artists Papers, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
2004
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
2003
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2002
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2001
Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine
2000
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan, Italy
Gallery Gan, Tokyo
Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
1999
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy
1998
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
1997
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1996
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
1995
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
1994
Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York
Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
1993
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
KSP Gallery, Kawasaki Shi, Japan
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
Il Tempo, Tokyo
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1991
Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
1989
White Columns, New York
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
1987
Art City, New York
1986
Art City, New York
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
1979
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
1978
Ginza Kaiga Kan, Tokyo
1972
Warren Benedek Gallery, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Curious Visions: Toward Abstract Photography, Denver Art Museum
Light as Medium: The TOP Collection, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2021
New Light: Encounters and Connections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Contemporary Voices in Asian American Photography, The Getty Museum on Google Arts & Culture (Virtual exhibition)
2020
Aesthetics in the Political, WhiteBox Harlem, New York
2019
dot, point, period, Castelli Gallery, New York
2018
Soft Focus, Dallas Museum of Art
Anna Atkins Refracted: Contemporary Works, New York Public Library
2017
Deadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy and His Circle, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York
The (Partial) Autobiography of an Art Gallery, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2016
A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, N.Y.
A Change of Heart, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
In Focus: Electric!, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
2015
For a New World To Come: Experiments in Art and Photography, Japan, 1968–1979, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Grey Art Gallery, New York
A History of Photography: Selections from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2014
Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 to Today, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Aggregate Exposure, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco
Art to Zoo: Exploring Animal Natures, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Imprints, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2013
Tamamono: From the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2012
Extensions of the Eye: Three Women Photographers, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Loughelton Revsited, Winkleman Gallery, New York
SIGHT (UN)SCENE): Contemporary Landscape, Benrimon Contemporary, New York
2011
Laguna Gloria: Art and Nature, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Osez!, Sometimes, New York
Morphology of Emptiness, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Pictorial Theory of Evolution, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
2010
PQ:100, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, N.Y.
2009
Pictures: Tracey Baran, Nikki S. Lee, Laurel Nakadate, & Kunié Sugiura, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Women Forward, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Infinite Patience: James Drake, Kunié Sugiura, Stanley Whitney, Haunch of Venison, New York
2008
Propagating Eden: Uses and Techniques of Nature Printing in Botany and Art, International Print Center, New York
The History of Arts and Cities- Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai, Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
2007
Contemporary Outlook: Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary Photography,
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Japan Caught by Camera, Shanghai Art Museum
Resounding Spirit: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York, Japan Society Gallery, New York
The Photograph; What You See & What You Don’t, Museum at Tokyo University of Fine Art, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
2006
Light and Shadow—First There Was Light: First Encounters with Light in Photographic Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Ephemeral—flash for eternity, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Japan
Math Counts, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
2005
Pairs, Groups, and Grids, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary Photography, Sala de arte y cultura de Caja Canaria de la Laguna, Canaria, Spain; Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Rome, Italy; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
85/05, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
Focus On: New Photography, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
The Shadow, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark
2004
Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary Photography, Japanisches Kunstinstitut, Cologne, Germany;
Casa Asia, Barcelona; arts depot, London
Mask of Japan, Aura Gallery, Shanghai
Lodz Biennial, Poland
Subway Series: The New York Mets and Our National Pastime, Queens Museum of Art, N.Y.
2003
How Human: Life in the Post Genome Era, International Center of Photography, New York
Prima Facie, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
Genomic Issue(s):Art and Science, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York
2002
Works on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
PhotoGenesis: Opus 2, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Retrospectacle: 25 Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Art, Photography, Part II, Denver Art Museum
True Blue, Jane Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
Shadow Play, Roger Smith Gallery, New York
2001
Wet! Luise Ross Gallery, New York
This is Not a Photograph, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego; Bayly Art Museum,
University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia; DePaul University, Chicago; Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
2000
Significant Other: The Hand of Man in Animal Imagery, Photographic Resource Center, Boston
Gardens of Pleasure, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Animal Magnetism, Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Process/Reprocess: Japan and the West, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
1999
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Contemporary Photo Art from Japan, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Wildflowers, The Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, N.Y.
Skin Deep: A Survey of Interior Imaging from X-ray to MRI, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
1998
Blooming, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York
Paraphotography, The Maier Museum of Art, Lynchberg, Virginia
Elusive Traces, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R.I.
1997
New Photography 13, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Eye of the Beholder, Photographs from the Avon Collection, International Center of Photography, New York
Fossilization: Imprinted Light, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
With a Different Camera, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Wall Works, Art in General, New York
1996
Japanese Photography: Contemporary Landscape 1980–1995, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The Nature of Light, Joyce Golden Gallery, New York
Pushing Image Paradigms, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oreegon
Dissimilar and Unrelated Sculpture, Baron/Boisante, New York
The Box, Foutouhi Cramer Gallery, New York
1995
Aspects of Contemporary Photography: Another Reality, Kawasaki City Museum, Japan
Vulnerability, Dahn Gallery, New York
Transformations, Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, N.J.
Blooms, ChristineRose Gallery, New York
In and Out of Character, The Roger Smith Gallery, New York
1994
Visualization At the End of the 20th Century, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Camera Obscura/Obscura Camera, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Negative Energy, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
When the Body Becomes Art (The Organs and Body as Object), Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
Experimental Vision, Denver Art Museum
1993
Foreign Ferns, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Photography, Baron/Boisante, New York
Jungjin Lee, Kunié Sugiura, Holly Wright, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1992
Shapeshifters, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York
Rubber Soul, Ledis Flam, New York
Culture Bites, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut; Sonoma State University,
Rohnert Park, California
1991
House of Value, 252 Lafayette Street, New York
July Fourth, Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
1990
Photography, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Veils, Art in General, New York
1989
Update, White Columns, New York
Selections 44, The Drawing Center, New York
1987
Paint-Photography, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York
Large as Life, Henry Street Settlement and Jamaica Art Center, New York
1986
Contemporary Japanese Photographers, The Barcelona Museum, Barcelona
Fathers, Asian Arts Institute, New York
1985
Chill Out New York, Kenkeleba House, New York
Invitational, Friedas/Ordover Gallery, New York
1983
Hong Kong-Tokyo-New York, Kenkeleba House, New York
1982
Invitational, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Looking Back-Looking Forward, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1981
Foto-Kina, Cologne, Germany
1980
Race Gallery, Philadelphia
1979
O.K. Harris Gallery, New York
1978
Willard Gallery, New York
Personal Vision: Places/Spaces, Bronx Museum of Art, New York
1972
Annual Exhibition of Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Selections From the Collection, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Warren Benedek Gallery, New York
1969
Vision and Expression, George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
Austin Museum of Art
Avon Products, Inc., New York
Best Products, Inc., Richmond, Va.
Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
The Capital Group, Los Angeles
Dallas Museum of Art
Denver Art Museum
Fidelity Investments, Boston
The Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, Jacobson, New York
George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.
Goldman, Sachs, New York
Kitakyushu Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Merrill Lynch, New York
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wa.
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, Va.
Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Art
Vivendi Universal, Paris
The Weatherspoon Art Museum
Weil, Gotshall & Manges, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Reed, John, “Infinite Patience,” Art in America, June/July 2009
Goldberg, Vicki. “Chaos: How Has Photography Changed Our Way of Looking at Things?” Aperture, Summer 2006
Matake, Makiko. “Ephemeral: Time Exhausted” catalogue for the exhibition Ephemeral—Flash for eternity, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori Japan
Anna Louise Manly. “Skyggen The Shadow” catalogue for the exhibition curated by Christine Buhl Anderson, 2005
Williams, John. “Covering All the Bases,” ArtNews, Summer 2004Varghese, Lisa. "Kunie Sugiura," Art Asia Pacific, Spring 2004
Sirmans, Franklin. "Survival Guides," Art Asia Pacific Winter 2004
Baysa, Kóan-Jeff. "Divining Fragments: Reconciling The Body," Photography Quaterly # 88, 2003
Burke, Adrienne J. Burke. “Short Interfering Sensation,” Genome Technology, May 2003 (+ Cover Illustration)
Umezu, Gen. “A ‘Shadow of the Art’ undertaken by a ‘Shadow Artist’,” Bijutsu Techô, Volume 55, no. 829, January 2003
Shulman, Ken. “Kunié Sugiura,” Art & Antiques, June 2002
Koplos, Janet. “Shadow Play,” Art in America, Vol. 4, April 2002
Glueck, Grace, “Kunié Sugiura: The Artist Papers and Other Works,” The New York Times, January 18, 2002
Anonymous, “Kunié Sugiura,” The New Yorker, January 21, 2002
Anderson, Kristen, “Shadow Boxer,” Bangor Daily News, November 12, 2001
Rainey, Kevin, “Kunié Sugiura: Nature Desired: New Photograms,” Art New England, Volume 22, Number 2, February–March 2001
Johnson, Ken, “Indoor-Outdoor Relations Along The Hudson,” The New York Times, July 21, 2000
Goodman, Jonathan, “Kunié Sugiura: Dark Matters/Light Affairs,” Art on Paper, March-April 2000
Arning, Bill, “Making Time Stutter,” Kunie Sugiura: Dark Matters/Light Affairs. New York: Pamela Auchincloss Arts Management, 2000 (exhibition catalogue)
Smith, Joel, “The Shadow Inside,” Kunie Sugiura: Dark Matters/Light Affairs. New York: Pamela Auchincloss Arts Management, 2000 (exhibition catalogue)
Anonymous, Museum Preview 2000-2001, Art in America
Huntington, Richard, “Shadow Play,” Gusto, Friday, December 29, 2000
Small, Irene, “Kunie Sugiura,” NY Arts Magazine, November 1999
Johnson, Ken, “Kunie Sugiura,” The New York Times, November 5, 1999
Hiromi, Nakamura, “The Possibilities of the Photograms,” Modena per la Fotografia, 1999 (exhibition catalogue)
Edwards, Susan, “Wildflowers,” Katonah Museum of Art, 1999 (exhibition brochure)
Klein, Michael, “Lucid Encounters,” World Art, Issue 20, Spring 1999
Cinitis, Maris, “New Photography/Kunié Sugiura,” C Magazine, February 1998
Glueck, Grace, “Kunié Sugiura,” The New York Times, November 28, 1997
Cotter, Holland, “New Photography 13,” The New York Times, November 7, 1997
Hapgood, Susan, “Fixing Shadows,” Kunié Sugiura. New York: Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, 1997
Umezu, Gen, “Photogram Today: Kunié Sugiura,” Fossilization: Imprinted Light. Saitama: The Museum of Modern Art, 1997
Koplos, Janet, “Kunié Sugiura at Zeit-Foto Salon and Kamakura,” Art in America, December 1995
Starger, Steve, “RAW’s Negative Energy,” Journal Inquirer, November 4, 1994
“RAW Energy,” The Hartford Advocate, November 17–24, 1994
Raynor, Vivien, “In Hartford, Bumptious and Alive and on the Cutting Edge,” The New York Times, November 20, 1994
Yang, Alice, “Kunié Sugiura at Muranushi Lederman Productions,” Asian Art News, May/June 1994
Aletti, Vince, “Kunié Sugiura,” The Village Voice, April 5, 1994
Aletti, Vince, “Kunié Sugiura/Sigmar Polke/Ingrid Dinter/Rosemarie Trockel,” The Village Voice, January 19, 1993
Hagen, Charles, “Foreign Ferns,” The New York Times, December 17, 1993
Sischy, Ingrid, “The Sensitive Plant,” The New Yorker, December 27, 1993
Schwendenwein, Jude, “Conceptual Art at Wesleyan Intrigues, Mystifies,” The Hartford Courant, September 12, 1993
Zimmer, William, “Light, Woodcuts and Photographic Paper,” The New York Times, September 12, 1993
Zimmer, William, “Culture Bites: Slides of Modern Life in New London,” The New York Times, February 23, 1992
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Aletti, Vince, “Veils,” The Village Voice, May 29, 1990
Rivera, Sophie, Nueva Luz, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1988
Lipton, Karin, “Asian Reflections on Fathers,” Newsday, June 11, 1986
O’Reilly, Kathleen, “Centerfold,” The Village Voice, May 1986
Sjostrom, Jan. “Norton Exhibit tells Visual Secrets,” Palm Beach Daily News, Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Smith, Roberta, “Around Town,” The Village Voice, September 1984
Glueck, Grace, “The Artist’s Artist,” Art News, November 1982
Massie, Rebecca, The Lewis Contemporary Art Fund Collection (catalogue), The Virginia Museum of Art
“Reviews and Previews,” Artnews, April 1972
Case, William D., “In the Galleries,” Arts Magazine, April 1972
Case, William D., “In the Galleries,” Arts Magazine, March 1972
A.D. Coleman, “Portogallo,” The Village Voice, June 1969
De Schein, Jacob, “Solarized Color,” The New York Times, May 1969
Brown, Mary, “10 Hour Color Prints,” US Camera, November 1968
Scully, Julia, “CKO,” Modern Photography, February 1968