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.
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.”
Fueki is a class of 2024 newly elected member of National Academy and Design, 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).
She has public artwork at PS 92Q in Queens, and HHS Lerner Children Pavilion in New York. 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.
