Opening Day Talk: Chie Fueki

Visually striking and intricate, Chie 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. 

 

Fueki currently lives and works in Beacon, NY. She was born in Yokohama, Japan, and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She earned her MFA at Yale University and her BFA at Ringling College of Art and Design. Fueki has had numerous solo exhibitions, including at the KinoSaito Art Center, Verplanck, New York (2024), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Salt Lake City (2023); and the Orlando Museum of Art, Florida (2014), among others. Her work is included in permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Orlando Museum of Art, Florida; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Jose Museum of Art, California; The Pizzuti Collection at Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City. She is a recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship (2025), 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).