| Biography | Inventory Catalogue | Artists Represented | Toru Sugita

Biography:

1964 Born in Shiga- Japan
1965 Bachelor of Education in Art, Kyoto University of Education
Japanese Painting Major in Junior High School Teacher's Course
1990 Research Student, Kyoto Seika University


Inventory Catalogue

Awards :  

2000 University Art Center Award, Pacific Prints 2000, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, California
1999 The Blessing Semler Acquisition Award for The Art Collection of Pomona College, Montgomery Gallery
1997 Printmaking Award (3rd Place), The 7th KTEH Art Auction Exhibit, Triton Museum of Art, California
1996 Kyoto Art & Culture Association Director Award, 48th Kyoto Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan
1995 Kala Institute '95 Printmaking Fellowship Award, Berkeley, California
1989 Superior Work Award, All Japan University f Printmaking Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan Kansai New Artist Award, Kansai Shinseisaku (New Production) Exhibition, Osaka, Japan

Solo Exhibitions:  

2002 "Flashing", Art Beatus Gallery ,Vancouver
2000 "Intersecting Angles", Merced College Art Gallery, Merced, California
1999 "At Shadows Edge" Studio 1109, Sacramento, California
1997 "A Shape 1992-1996", AlA East Bay, Oakland, California
1990 (Installation), Gallery Suzuki, Kyoto, Japan
1988 (Mixed Media), Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, Japan

Group Exhibitions:
2001 Berkley Art Center 18th Annual Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, California
2000 Autour de Frans Measerel, Le Lode Fine Arts Museum, Le Lode, Switzerland
Scratch & Burn-Intagio Prints by Toru Sugita and Xavier Viramontes, Collectors
Gallery, Oakland, California
Oeuvres graphiqques cl'artistes contemporaries' ayant trvaille au celebre Centre Frans
Maser eel, Gordes, France
"Meetings", Suolahti Old Station Hall, Suolahti, Finland
Laps 2000, Brand Library Art Gallery, California
Pacific Prints 2000, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, California
1999 California Prints From Wood, Oakland Museum Collector's Gallery, California
Selections from Open Studio'98, San Francisco, California
Faultines/Watermarks, The Atrium, San Francisco, CN Amsterdam, Holland
Kala At 25, University of Pacific, Stockton, California
15th National Bieennial of Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Lab and Gallery, California
1998 California Prints From Wood, Oakland Museum Collector's Gallery, California
Pro Arts 1998 Juried Annual Show, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California
"Geometric/Organic" Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Etchings, Etcetre, Carol A Dab Art Consultants, Los Altos, California
A Tradition Continued: Reliief Prints, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, California
1997 Collectors Gallery Salutes KALA, Oakland Museum Collector's Gallery, California
California Prints From Wood, Oakland Museum Collector's Gallery, California
"Two Views" Gallery/Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
1996 California Prints From Wood, Oakland Museum Collector's Gallery, California
"Motion in Stillness", Gallery On the Rim, San Francisco, California
"Masters of the Media", Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
"Paper Selected Works From the Collection" Kissmet Gallery, California
'95 Kala Institute Fellowship Exhibition, California
Kyoto University of Education 1 201h Anniversary Art Show, Kyoto, Japan
The 3rd kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Kochi, Japan
1995 "Japan Mukashi To ma", Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Costa Rica

Collectors:
  Machida Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan

 

 Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, California
  Royal Museum of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
About:

Toru Sugita was born in Shiga, Japan. He obtained his Bachelor of Education in Art at Kyoto University of Education. A printmaker, Sugita works with light and shadow, describing places architecturally, creating space using intersecting diagonal lines. He is often moved by shapes and colours that may change or disappear in the next moment, 'when sunlight touches an object in the afternoon!K', and tries to capture moments that affect him by expressing them through his work. Sugita works with the intaglio process, concentrating mainly on etching and aquatint, and feels he can express himself best through the graphic nature of black and white. His printmaking style primarily dealt with Japanese themes, but Sugita who has been living in San Francisco for the last 5 years now tends to be drawn to Californian scenery. "I hope my work is appreciated by as many people as possible. I love prolonged shadows, air and the time of 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and I want to capture the transiency or fragility of those things in my work. I want to convey what I felt to viewers. I would rather 'convey' than 'be understood'. For this reason, I want to create artwork as understandable as possible."

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