Yui Kugimiya grew up in Tokyo, Japan where she was born in 1981 and moved to the US in 2001 to attend art school. She graduated from Mass. Art in Boston with BFA in 2004 and continued her studies in painting department at Yale university school of art. Graduating with Barry Schactman Prize and MFA degree in 2007 she moved to Brooklyn NY, where she currently lives and continues painting. Recent solo exhibitions of her work were held at Horton Gallery in New York, Carroll and Sons in Boston, MA and Galeria Enrique Guerrero in Mexico City, Mexico. Kugimiya’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at Public Screens, Stavanger, Norway; Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France, ATM Gallery, New York, and Smith-Stewart @ KUMUKUMU Gallery, New York. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Sagamore Collection in Miami, FL. The artist has been discussed in Art in America and Modern Painters.
