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EDUCATION
2003 Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Department, May 2003
1990 Research Student, Kyoto Seika University Printmaking Department, April 1989 - March 1990
1987 Bachelor of Art Education, Kyoto University of Education
Japanese Painting Major in Junior High School Teacher's Course
AWARDS
2011 Purchase Award, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
2009 Cash Award, PRINTED: A Juried Exhibition, Cabrillo Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos, California
First Place, Juried Artist Award, Contemporary 2009: Sculpture, the Art Center of Western Colorado,
Grand Junction, CO
2008 Juror's Choice Award, ArtSpan Benefit Art Show and Auction, Electric Works Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 First Place Award, Pacific Prints 2006, Pacific Art Leaque of Palo Alto, California
2005 Award of Excellence, Impressions: Matric and Image, Alameda Art Center, Alameda, California
2003 Juror¹s Award, 20th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
2000 University Art Center Award, Pacific Prints 2000, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, California
1999 The Blessing Semler Aquisition Award for The Art Collection of Pomona College, Montgomery Gallery, California
1997 Awarded 3rd Place in Printmaking, 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 Award for Superior Work, All Japan University's Printmaking Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
Kansai New Artist Award, Kansai Shinseisaku (New Production) Exhibition, Osaka, Japan
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 A Continuous-Scape, The Art Center of Western Colorado, Grand Junction, Colorado
2010 Toru Sugita: Chronology and New Vision, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, California
2008 The Work of Toru Sugita, Hang Ups Fine Art, Grand Junction, Colorado
2007 Toru Sugita New Prints & Paintings, Newmark Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 Solo Show, "Ephemera," Johnson's Art Gallery, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, Colorado
2002 Toru Sugita Paintings and Prints, Gallery img, Santa Clara, California
2000 Solo Show, Merced College Art Gallery, Merced, California
1999 Solo Show "At Shadows Edge" Studio 1109, Sacramento, California
1997 Solo Show "A Shape 1992~1996", AIA East Bay, Oakland, California
1990 The Other View(Installation), Gallery Suzuki, Kyoto, Japan
1988 A Fine Day Goes Down" (Mixed Media),Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, Japan
SELECTED TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006 Kate Luxe & Toru Sugita, Crockett Contemporary Art, Crockett, California
2004 Reading/Viewing: a New Perspective Mary V. Marsh & Toru Sugita, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
2003 The Visible World - Patty Neal & Toru Sugita, Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA
2002 Flashing - New Works by Hye-Kyung Kim & Toru Sugita, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2000 Scratch & Burn-Intaglio Prints by Toru Sugita and Xavier Viramontes, Collectors Gallery, Oakland, CA
1998 Geometric/Organic, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, California
1997 Lani Asher & Toru Sugita: Two Views, Gallery/The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Accession Recent Acquisitions from the Art in Public Places Collection, Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu, HI
City Streets - urban views of the Bay Area, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, California
A Stone's Throw Exchange Exhibit, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY
In Extremis: Prints Monumental, Intimate, and Encompassing, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Light/Dark," California Society of Printmakers Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
2010 2010 Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hawaii
City Streets - urban view of the Bay Area, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, California
Lines, Lanes, Planes, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, California
Skin Deep II, The Art Center of Western Colorado, Grand Junction, Colorado
2009 On View: New Work from Kala, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
Six Decades of Printmaking, ArtZone 461, San Francisco, CA
20th National Biennial of Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
PRINTED: A Juried Exhibition, Cabrillo Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos, California
Relief Print of Northern California, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College, Moraga, California
City Streets - urban view of the Bay Area, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, California
The Artist of ZYZZYVA, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, California
Sculpture ~ Material, Physical, Structural and Awake!, the Art Center of Western Colorado, Grand Junction, CO
2008 A Stone's Throw Exchange Exhibit, LA Artcore Brewery Gallery, Los Angeles, California
City Streets - urban view of the Bay Area, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, California
The 7th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Ino-cho Paper Museum, Kochi, Japan
Janet Turner 7th National Competition, Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University, Chico, California
2007 Los Angeles Printmaking Society 19th National Exhibition, Riverside Art Museum, California
City Streets - urbn view of the Bay Area, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, California
Summer in the City, Newmark Gallery, San Francisco, California
20th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsn-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin
2006 San Francisco Cityscapes, Newmark Gallery, San Francisco, California
Pacific Prints 2006, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California
Ink and Idea, Platt Gallery, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, California
Sun and Shadow, Tang Gallery, Bisbee, Arizona
Impressions 2006, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California
2005 First Annual Auto Show, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, California
Printmakers Invitational 2005, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, California
18th National Biennial of Los Angeles Printmaking Society, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
Bay Area Fine Art Printmakers, Lynn House Gallery, Antioch, California
San Francisco Cityscapes, Newmark Gallery, San Francisco, California
Berkeley Art Center 22nd Annual National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
Thirty Something, San Francisco Modern Art Museum Artists Gallery, San Francisco, California
City Streets: STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco, California
Impressions: Matric and Image, Alameda Art Center, Alameda, California
2004 Issho/Together, Japanese American/Japanese National Artists in America, Meridian Gallery,
San Francisco, California
Fields of View:Natural & Urban Landspcapes, Dorothy Herger Gallery, Solano Community College,
Solano, California
"...tis the season!," Art Beatus Gallery, Voncouver, Canada
Urban Landscape, San Francisco Modern Art Museum Artists Gallery, San Francisco, California
Printmakers of the Golden Gate, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, California
Printmaking & Process: An Overview of Contemporary Practice, Arts Benicia Center, Benicia, California
"Paintings & Prints," Kings Gallery, First Unitarian Church, San Francisco, California
Pangaea, The Canvas, San Francisco, California
2003 Berkeley Art Center 20th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
Pastiche-An Exhibition of Cacophony, The Canvas, San Francisco, California
2nd Graphic Annual of Contemporary Printmaking, Museo de los Niños, San Jose, Costa Rica
LAPS Juried Membership Exhibition, Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California
Jubileumtentoonstelling, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
2002 Art Bowl II, B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, California
Global Matrix, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, Indiana
Pacific Prints 2002, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California
Then & Now, Museum of Children¹s Art (MOCHA), Oakland, California
Breakages: USF 3rd Annual Sculpture Show, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Dibujo Dibujado, 1st International Annual of Drawing, Museo del Niño, San Jose, Costa Rica
Janet Turner 4th National Print Competition, California State University, Chico, Chico, California
2001 California Small Works, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California
Berkley Art Center 18th Annual Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
2000 Oeuvres graphiques d'artistes contemporains ayant travaillé au célèbre Centre Frans Masereel,Gordès, France
Meetings, Suolahti Old Station Hall, Suolahti, Finland
LAPS 2000, Brand Ligrary Art Galleries, Glendale, California
Pacific Prints 2000, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California
1999 California Prints From Wood, Oakland Museum Collector's Gallery, Oakland, California
Selections from Open studios '98, Capella, San Francisco, California
Idea Houce, San Francisco Design Center, San Francisco, California
Faultlines/Watermarks, Design Center, San Francisco, CA / DerZaaijer, Amsterdam, Holland
15th National Biennial of Los Angeles Printmakers Society, Laband Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 California Prints From Wood, Oakland Museum Collector's Gallery, Oakland, California
Pro Arts 1998 Juried Annual Show, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California
Etchings, Etcetra, Carol A. Dabb Art Consultants, Los Altos, California
A Tradition Continued: Relief Prints, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, California
1997 The 7th KTEH Art Auction Exhibit, Triton Museum of Art, California
"Berkeley Salutes Kala", Berkeley Store Gallery, Berkeley, California
1996 California Prints from Wood, Oakland Museum Collector's Gallery, Oakland, 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", Kismet Gallery, San Jose, California
'95 Kala Institute Fellowship Exhibition, Kala Institute, Berkeley, California
The 3rd Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Kochi, Japan
"Japan Mukashi To Ima" show, Modern Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica
1995 "Latent August" show, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California
Print & Draw Biennial, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
Solo Show (Printmaking) Bucci's, Emeryville, California
1993 The 5th Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Wakayama, Japan
Kala Institute: A Print Exchange, New York Graphic Center, New York, New York
Japanese Art Today, Reykjavik, Iceland
Kala Institute: A Print Exchange, Pyramid Atlantic, Washington, D.C.
1990 Kinoprint '90 (Printmaking), Gallery Suzuki, Kyoto, Japan
1989 All Japan Universities Printing Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
Printmaking Exhibition for Amnesty International, Kyoto, Japan
Kansai Shinseisaku Exhibition, Osaka, Japan
1987 Group "SHIRUBE" Show (Painting), Gallery F, Kyoto, Japan
1985 Group "URIMBO" Show (Painting), Fujii Daimaru, Kyoto, Japan
FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES and GRANTS
2008 Mesa State College Faculty Professional Development Grant for Multi-media Art Installation and Dance "Kagerou"
Mesa State College Sterategic Planing Grant for acquiring aditional litho press for Art Department
Mesa State College Faculty Professional Development Grant for Art Residecy at East Side Editions, San Francisco, CA
2004 Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Grant
1999 Centrum voor Grafiek Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium
1995 Kala Art Institute Fellowship Artist, Berkeley, California
1991 Murals of "Torres del Paine" Puerto Natales, Chile
PUBLIC LECTURES
2010 Guest Speaker, "Japanese American Art & Expression" by Betty Kano, San Francisco State University
"Artist Response to Globalization" Four Corners Conference on Globalization, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO
"Survey of Printmaking," El Cerrito Arts Association October meeting, El Cerrito Community Center, California
2009 "Art & Immigration," Four Corners Conference on Immigration, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, Colorado
2007 Newmark Gallery, San Francisco, California
2004 Simposium ³Artists¹ Influences in Multicultural World², Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California
2003 California State University Chico, Chico, California
2002 Malaspina Printmaking Society, Vancouver, Canada
1996 Kala Institute, Berkeley, California
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
Machida Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Pomona College, Montgomery Gallery, California
Royal Museum of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Special Collection of Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California
St Mary's Hospital, Grand Junction, Colorado
The Art Center of Western Colorado, Grand Junction, Colorado
Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011 "Two exhibits from Bay Area artists opening July 1" Grand Junction Free Press, July 24 2011 issue
2010 "Less Is More, Six artist slow down and simplify" by DeWitt Cheng, East Bay Express, July 21 2010 issue
2008 "Dance, visual arts merge in MSC professor's yard for symbolic event," Grand Junction Free Press, Oct. 27, 2008
Visual Arts, dance merge to show fleeting existence" Grand Junction Free Press, October 24, 2008 issue
2006 TV Interview, Ephemera at Mesa State College, KJCT 8 (NBC), October 2nd 2006
Artist’s work illuminate everyday scenes,² The Times, August 31, 2006 issue
Ink and Idea, ArtWeek, July/August, 2005 issue
2005 ZYZZYVA the last word: west coast writers & artists, Winter 2005 issue
"The Collective Conscious: Artists and Patrons" 2005 SF Open Studios The Guide
"Mary V. Marsh/Toru Sugita, reading/viewing: a new perspective,"ArtWeek, Feburary, 2005 issue
2003 Critic's Choice: Art 'Pastiche, an Exhibition of Cacophony,' San Francisco Bay Guardian July 16 issue
"Calligraphy & Beyond," Diversity, Asian Pacific Heritage Month issue
Art of Northern California, Alcove Books, Berkeley, California
2002 "Flashing": New Works by Hye-Kyung Kim and Toru Sugita, Preview, June~August 2002 issue
2000 "Angles and Light Star in Printmaking Exhibit," Merced Sun-Star, October 27 issue
"People" Interview, Hokubei Mainichi June 3rd Issue (Japanese)
1999 Mon Plaza Interview, Monthly Mon June 1999 Issue (Japanese)
1998 Pro Arts 1999 Juried Annual Calender
1997 Toru Sugita & Lani Asher Interview, Kyoto Shinbun, Shiga Newspaper, June 11 issue (Japanese)
1996 The art of a holiday timeout, by Chiori Santiago, San Jose Mercury News December /22 issue
DisOrient Jounarizine Volume 6
1990 Sagas Art Interview, Sagas Magazine April 1990 Issue
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