Miyuki Tsugami

Miyuki Tsugami
Born in 1973, Tokyo, raised in Osaka. Lives and works in Kanagawa.

She received a master’s degree in fine art from the Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School. The titles of her works are often prefixed with “View,” which means not only objective sights and landscapes but also subjective ways of looking and thinking. The name derives from her thought on questions about contemporary landscape painting that she creates from her essential daily sketches: how people grasp the external world and then construct standards and values from their own perspectives. Her stay in New York in 1996 under a residency program gave her the opportunity to rethink her production and works, and she again began to explore a unique style of painting upon her return. She was the recipient of the Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) Award in 2003. In her production under a residency program hosted by Ohara Museum Art in Okayama in 2005, she established a distinctive methodology of creating a painting from numerous sketches made in her everyday life, and continues to paint in this way at present. As part of the Gotoh Memorial Foundation Award in the Fine Art Division she received in 2013, she was given a one-year residency in the UK -known as the birthplace of landscape painting. During her stay, besides producing works, she researched landscape painters of the past and their works.

Her major exhibitions include solo exhibition ARKO TSUGAMI MIYUKI at Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama (2005), solo exhibition TSUGAMI Miyuki View -Trace and Reprise at Ichinomiya City Memorial Art Museum of Setsuko Migishi, Aichi (2013), solo exhibition Japanese Landscapes -Uckermark Landscapes at Dominikanerkloster Klostergalerie, Prenzlau/Germany (2015), solo exhibition Contemplation of Time at The Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, Tokyo (2018), The Herstory of Abstraction in East Asia at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (2019), solo exhibition TSUGAMI Miyuki View -People and Landscapes at Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki (2019), and ABSTRACTION: The Genesis and Evolution of Abstract Painting Cézanne, Fauvism, Cubism and on to Today at Artizon Museum, Tokyo (2023).

 

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Arts Maebashi, Gunma
Artizon Museum, Tokyo
Kurashiki Central Hospital, Okayama
Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto
Kyushu Dental College
Morgan Stanley
Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
Orix Corporation
The City of Kashiwa
The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

 

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