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Kōhei Sugiura (杉浦 康平)

Artist
WA-00031163
Representation
None documented
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Institutional Exhibitions
1
Works in Collection
2
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Recent Japanese Posters from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989–1990

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About

Why this artist matters now

Kōhei Sugiura is a Japanese graphic designer and typographer whose practice, emerging in the postwar period, synthesizes traditional Japanese aesthetic principles with modernist compositional rigor. Working primarily in print design, he developed a distinctive approach to the spatial and semantic relationship between image and text, establishing typography as a structural rather than merely functional element within the visual field.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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Artworks (1)

Artwork sources (1)

1 published of 2 catalogued · 0 with image
  • MoMA
    1 publishedof 2 catalogued

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Museum of Modern Art
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Representation & Collections

In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Exhibitions and timeline

Group ExhibitionRecent Japanese Posters from the Collection
New York · 1989