Japanese/American, b. 1973
Visually striking and intricate, Chie Fueki’s paintings picture contemporary life in spectacular motion. Drawing on her experience as a Japanese-born artist growing up in Brazil and later practicing in the United States, Fueki’s work embraces the visual language from these three distinct cultures. Chie Fueki lives and works in Beacon, NY. Fueki was born in Yokohama, Japan, and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She earned her MFA at Yale University and BFA at The Ringling College of Art and Design. She is a recipient of the Pocantico Prize, Rockefeller Brother’s Fund (2024), UMOCA's Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting (2023), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2022), Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2021-2025), American Academy of Arts and Letters; Purchase Prize (2021, 2004) and Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2004). Recent solo exhibitions include: KinoSaito Art Center, Verplanck, NY (2024), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT (2023); DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY (2023); Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2005, 2008, 2013, 2023); Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY (2020), Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY (2006, 2011).
