Born: 1937 Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Ithaca, New York
website: www.kumikorf.com
Through the use of traditional intaglio processes Kumi Korf creates images on copper plates and then prints the plates on a transluscent paper known as Akatosashi.
Using this method, Ms. Korf creates 'squares' of unrelated abstractions. These abstractions are linked together to form panels of shapes and colors.
Unlike the repetitive images of the Pop generation, Korf's multiple images stand alone as separate pieces of her thought process; each a contemplative element in a matrix of veiled memories.
She seeks a balance between the Eastern culture she was born into and the Western world, especially 20th century Modernism, which she has adopted as her own.
Education
1959 BA Architecture, Tokyo University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
1977 MFA Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 Chandler Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2009 Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL
2009 Gallery Ami, Osaka, Japan
2009 Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
2008 Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY
2008 Chandler Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2007 Art Now, Miami Beach, FL
2007 AAF Art Fair, New York, NY
2007 Chandler Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2007 Gallery Ami, Osaka, Japan
2006 Upstairs Gallery, Itahca, NY
2005 AAF Art Fair, New York, NY
2005 Chandler Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2005 Gallery Kanoko, Osaka, Japan
2004 Chandler Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2004 Shinshu/Matsumoto, Nakamachi Kura no Kaikan, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
2003 Chandler Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2001 Museum West Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1997 Printmaking Workshop Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York at Oswego, NY
1994 Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY
1991 Sibley Fine Arts Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1987 New Acquisitions Gallery, Syracuse, NY
1986 Village Gate Art Center, Rochester, NY
1982 Cultural Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
1981 Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
1980 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Selected Group Exhbitions
2007 Center for Book Arts, New York: Annual Exhibition
2006 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC:
The Book as Art
2005 Atelier Lacouriere-Frelaut, Paris, France New York
2000 Studio Gallery on Azeele, Tampa, FL: Sculptural Books
2000 Museum West Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1999 Gallery on the Hudson, Irvington, NY: Pushing Paper
1999 Paul Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
1998 Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY: Looking East
1998 Center for Book Arts, New York, NY: Textile, Fiber, Thread:
The Book Show (97, 95, 94)
1998 HarperCollins Exhibition Space, New York, NY: Hand,Spirit, Invention
1998 Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz, CA: Kumi Korf and Helen Wallis
1998
Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Norwalk, CT: New Acquisitions
1998
Bristol-Meyers Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ: Art Heals the Spirit
1997 Corcoran Gallery, Wash. DC: Pyramid Atlantic 5th Biannual Book Arts Fair's Invitational Exhibit
1997
55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY: The Pink Show
1997 Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY: Upstate Invitational
1997 AlbrightKnox Gallery, Buffalo, NY: Area Artists Collection 1997-98
1996 Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY: Finger Lakes Exhibition
1996 Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Norwalk, CT: Paperwor Selected
Selected Collections
Cornell University, Kroch Library, Rare & Manuscript Collections, Ithaca, NY
Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY
Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Special Collections,
Los Angeles, CA
Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Lafayette College, Experimental Printmaking Institute, Easton, PA
Library of Congress, Rare Books Collection, Washington DC
Mills College, Olin Library, Mills Center for the Book, Oakland, CA
National Museum of Women in the Arts Library, Washington DC
Marvin & Ruth Sackner Collection, Miami Beach, FL
Tate Library, London, England
University of Alabama, Institute for Book Arts, Tuscaloosa, AL
University of Alberta, Bruce Peel Special Collection,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
University of Washington Library, Special Collections, Seattle, WA
Washington University Library, Special Collections, St. Louis, MO
Columbia-Presbyterian Center, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Savaria Muzuem, Szombathely, Hungary
Cornell University, Olin Library, Ithaca, NY
Victoria & Albert Museum, Special Collections, London, England
Awards
1999 CAP II Community Artists' Project, Ithaca, NY: New Project Grant
1998 New York Foundation for the Arts, NY: Special Opportunity Stipend
1997 Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY: Fellowship
1992 Diverse Forms Artists' Projects, Regional Initiative: Artist's Grant (Rockefeller Foundation, NEA & Warhol Foundation)
Selected Architectural Commissions
1999 Outdoor Living Space for Mr & Mrs R.N. Sudan
1997 Residence for Ms. Suzanne Soyring
1995 Residence, renovation, Mr & Mrs Winthrop Wetherbee
1994 Residence, renovation, Mr & Mrs Jork Sellschop
1993 Residence, addtition, Mr & Mrs Jork Sellschop
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