Talk

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by the painter Chie Fueki.

Visually-striking and intricate, Fueki’s paintings picture contemporary life in spectacular motion. Created through a complex system of painting, drawing, cutting, and collaging onto wood panels, her practice is centered around the depiction of figures, symbols, and abstract spaces using multi-layered ornamental surfaces and fields of color. 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. As Fueki explains: “I consider myself a mixed-language painter with interest in eastern and western perspectival systems, architectural graphics, pop animation, pre-Renaissance European painting, and exuberant color.”

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 her 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); Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY (2002, 2003); Orlando Museum of Art, FL (2014). She has public artwork at PS 92Q, Queens NY, and HHS Lerner Children Pavilion, New York, NY. Her work is included in permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Orlando Museum of Art, FL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; The Pizzuti Collection at Columbus Museum of Art, OH; and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, UT.

Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and critics presented by MFA Fine Arts. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street in Room 101C and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.

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