Chie Fueki (born 1973) is a Japanese American painter. She has had an active career exhibiting her work in commercial galleries, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.[1][2] Fueki's intricate paintings combine influences from both Eastern and Western traditions. She currently lives and works in Beacon, New York.
Chie Fueki | |
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| Born | 1973 (age 50–51) Yokohama, Japan |
| Education | Ringling College of Art & Design |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Known for | Painting |
| Awards | American Academy of Arts and Letters; Joan Mitchell Fellowship; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Prize; Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting |
Early life and education
editFueki was born in Yokohama, Japan, in 1973. She spent her childhood in São Paulo, Brazil.[3][4] Fueki studied at the Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, Florida, receiving a BFA in 1996. She received her MFA from Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1998.[3] Fueki then studied at the Yale Norfolk School of Art in Norfolk Connecticut in 1995.[5]
Artistic practice
editFueki's intricately patterned and detailed paintings, often created on mulberry paper or wood panel, combine influences from both Eastern and Western decorative and folk arts and range in subject from sports imagery to more traditional subjects such as memento mori and portraits of friends.[6] Laura Newman wrote that the shimmering surfaces in Fueki's paintings "give the works a sensuous, intoxicating delight of the sort more often associated with decoration than with thoughtful contemporary painting."[7]
Fueki's paintings incorporate symbolism from art of the Early Renaissance to ukiyo-e art of Japan and inspiration "from all the great influences in my life," including Piero della Francesca to Philip Guston and her contemporaries.[8] "[The] present moment always looks away. Everyone knows that," said Fueki.[9] Often fragmented, seemingly quilted and embroidered, the cosmic and eternal are evoked in depictions of everyday life, existing between painted layers of paper.
Exhibitions and collections
editChie Fueki has had solo exhibitions with Bellwether, Bill Maynes, Mary Boone, and DC Moore galleries in New York; Shoshana Wayne gallery in Santa Monica, California; and the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida.[3] Her paintings have appeared in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Frederick Freiser gallery, and Susan Inglett gallery in New York.[10] Fueki's work is held in public collections, including the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Orlando Museum of Art, Florida; San Jose Museum of Art, California; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Pizzuti Collection at Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio.[10]
Awards
editIn 2004 Fueki was awarded the Purchase Prize and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, Young Painter of Distinction, both from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2021, she was awarded the Purchase Prize again and also won a Joan Mitchell Fellowship from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.[11] In 2022 she received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.[2] In 2023 Fueki received the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting from the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.[12][13][14]
References
edit- ^ "Artists: Chie Fueki". Shoshana Wayne Gallery. Archived from the original on 19 November 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b "Guggenheim Announces 2022 Fellowship Recipients". Artforum. 8 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 November 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ a b c Yau, John (12 January 2022). "The Mind-Bending Portraits of Chie Fueki". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 7 March 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ Fateman, Johanna (2022). "Chie Fueki". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Chie Fueki Yale Norfolk Art '95, Yale School of Art MFA '98". Yale Norfolk School of Art. 30 June 2016. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ Konigsberg, Eric (18 October 2009). "Artists Salute Unsung Multitasker". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ Newman, Laura (1 October 2002). "Chie Fueki". BOMB. No. 81. Archived from the original on 24 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ "Chie Fueki". Escape Into Life. 16 June 2010. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ Ward, Jessie N. (26 June 2014). "Chie Fueki". NWA Art Talk. Archived from the original on 12 September 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ a b "Artists - Chie Fueki". DC Moore Gallery. Archived from the original on 29 June 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ "Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces Inaugural Fellows". Artforum. 13 October 2021. Archived from the original on 12 April 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ "Chie Fueki Winner of $15,000 2023 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting". Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. 12 May 2023. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
- ^ "2023 Doctorow Prize Winner: Chie Fueki". Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. 2023. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ Roka, Les (4 December 2023). "Mesmerizing portrayals of auras, energies of individual, place in Chie Fueki's Doctorow Prize show at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art". The Utah Review. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2023.