Chie Fueki Explained

Chie Fueki
Birth Place: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

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] Fueki's intricate paintings combine influences from both Eastern and Western traditions. She currently lives and works in Beacon, New York.

Early life and education

Fueki was born in Yokohama, Japan, in 1973. She spent her childhood in São Paulo, Brazil.[2] 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.[4]

Artistic practice

Fueki'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.[5] 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."[6]

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.[7] "[The] present moment always looks away. Everyone knows that," said Fueki.[8] 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

Chie 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. Her paintings have appeared in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Frederick Freiser gallery, and Susan Inglett gallery in New York.[9] 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.

Awards

In 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.[10] In 2022 she received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.[11] In 2023 Fueki received the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting from the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.[12] [13] [14]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Artists: Chie Fueki . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211119190416/https://shoshanawayne.com/artists/chie-fueki . 19 November 2021 . 19 November 2021 . Shoshana Wayne Gallery . en-US.
  2. Web site: Fateman . Johanna . 2022 . Chie Fueki . live . https://archive.today/20231207022544/https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/a-glorious-bewilderment-10-16-23 . 7 December 2023 . 6 December 2023 . . en.
  3. Web site: Yau . John . 12 January 2022 . The Mind-Bending Portraits of Chie Fueki . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230307201308/https://hyperallergic.com/705417/the-mind-bending-portraits-of-chie-fueki/ . 7 March 2023 . 15 January 2022 . . en-US.
  4. Web site: 30 June 2016 . Chie Fueki Yale Norfolk Art ‘95, Yale School of Art MFA ‘98 . live . https://archive.today/20231207023145/https://norfolkart.yale.edu/videos/chie-fueki-yale-norfolk-art-95-yale-school-art-mfa-98 . 7 December 2023 . 6 December 2023 . Yale Norfolk School of Art.
  5. Web site: Konigsberg . Eric . 18 October 2009 . Artists Salute Unsung Multitasker . subscription . live . https://archive.today/20231207002846/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/arts/design/19warren.html . 7 December 2023 . 8 March 2016 . The New York Times.
  6. News: Newman . Laura . 1 October 2002 . Chie Fueki . en . . 81 . live . 8 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230324134607/https://bombmagazine.org/articles/chie-fueki/ . 24 March 2023.
  7. Web site: 16 June 2010 . Chie Fueki . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230320182650/https://www.escapeintolife.com/artist-watch/chie-fueki/ . 20 March 2023 . 8 March 2016 . Escape Into Life .
  8. Web site: Ward . Jessie N. . 26 June 2014 . Chie Fueki . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140912054919/http://nwaarttalk.com/2014/06/26/chie-fueki/ . 12 September 2014 . 8 March 2016 . NWA Art Talk.
  9. Web site: Artists - Chie Fueki . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230629005140/https://www.dcmooregallery.com/artists/chie-fueki . 29 June 2023 . 15 January 2022 . DC Moore Gallery . en.
  10. Web site: 13 October 2021 . Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces Inaugural Fellows . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230412172512/https://www.artforum.com/news/joan-mitchell-foundation-announces-inaugural-fellows-86915 . 12 April 2023 . 19 November 2021 . . en-US.
  11. Web site: 8 April 2022 . Guggenheim Announces 2022 Fellowship Recipients . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231108052243/https://www.artforum.com/news/guggenheim-announces-2022-fellowship-recipients-251737/ . 8 November 2023 . 9 April 2022 . Artforum.
  12. Web site: 12 May 2023 . Chie Fueki Winner of $15,000 2023 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230528152805/https://utahmoca.org/chie-fueki-winner-of-15000-2023-catherine-doctorow-prize-for-contemporary-painting/ . 28 May 2023 . 6 June 2023 . . en-US.
  13. Web site: 2023 . 2023 Doctorow Prize Winner: Chie Fueki . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231207013319/https://utahmoca.org/exhibition/2023-doctorow-prize-winner-chie-fueki/ . 7 December 2023 . 6 December 2023 . . en-US.
  14. Web site: 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 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231204161010/https://www.theutahreview.com/mesmerizing-portrayals-of-auras-energies-of-individual-place-in-chie-fuekis-doctorow-prize-show-at-utah-museum-of-contemporary-art/ . 4 December 2023 . 6 December 2023 . The Utah Review . en-US.

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