Sumire Skye Taniai
EDUCATION
2019 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA, Painting and Drawing Department, Chicago, IL
New Artist Society Merit Scholarship (full merit)
2016 University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, BFA Painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Imaginative Play, Craft Studio Gallery, Columbia, MO [06]
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ INSTALLATIONS
2020 Restraint and Limitation, Freeark Gallery, Riverside, IL [upcoming 05]
Gummies Gallery with Pocke Gallery, Tokyo, Japan [upcoming 05]
Parlour and Ramp Gallery, Chicago, IL [upcoming 01]
2019 Homesick Remedy, JAW Gallery, Yamaguchi, Japan [10]
Housing Memories, Site specific outdoor Installation, Yamaguchi, Japan [09]
Back to School 2019, FDC Studios, Chicago, IL [09]
GIFC, Agnes B Galerie, Tokyo, Japan [08]
Pane in The Ass, JAW Gallery, Chicago, IL [08]
The Turf, The Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, IL [05]
With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL [05]
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL [04]
GIFC, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL [03]
2018 Some Compendium of Mania, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL [11]
In Conversation With, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL [11]
Restraint & Limitation (traveling show), Elder Gallery, Lincoln, NE [10]
2016 10th Annual State of the Arts, R.G. Endres Gallery, Prairie Village, KS [10]
Inside Voices, Columbia Art League, Columbia, MO [01]
2015 Evoke, Imago Gallery, Columbia, MO
Curator: Matt Ballou [Associate Professor, University of Missouri] [08]
Senior Exhibition, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO [05]
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO
Juror: Joel Sager, [02]
2014 Boone County Art Show, Boone County National Bank, Columbia, MO [10]
2013 Boone County Art Show, Boone County National Bank, Columbia, MO [10]
One Read Art Exhibit, Orr Street Studios, Columbia, MO [09]
CAL Members Summer Open, Columbia Art League, Columbia, MO [06]
Art After Dark, Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, MO [04]
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
2020 Contributing Writer, Aomori Design Forum 「青山デザインフォーラム」[Jan-present]
2019 Guest Curator, for JAW Gallery, Homesick Remedy, Yamaguchi, Japan [Oct]
2018 Graduate Noon Time Lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago [October]
Teaching Assistant, Figure Drawing: Multi-level for Celeste Rapone [Fall]
2017 Teaching Assistant, Painting Practice for Dan Devening [Spring]
Teaching Assistant, Painting Practice for George Liebert [Fall]
2016 Kansas City Artists Coalition, Member [May - present]
2015 Summer Intern, Development Department, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kansas City, MO [July-October]
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2019 Etsuko Residency, Yamaguchi, Japan (June-Sep)
2017 New Artist Society Merit Scholarship, Full tuition
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2013 Honorable Mention, Boone County Art Show, Boone County National Bank, Columbia, MO
PUBLICATIONS
Waki Channel, TV interview for Homesick Remedy, Nov 4, 2019
TYS TV Yamaguchi, TV interview for Homesick Remedy, Oct 28, 2019
ADF Magazine, "Homesick Remedy- JAW in Japan", Yuji Kumon, Oct 23, 2019
Mainichi Newspaper, Interview for Homesick Remedy, Oct 21, 2019
Friend of The Artist, Spring 2017
Studio Visit Magazine, Issue 32, 2016
Eikonktizo, “Evoke at Imago Gallery and Cultural Center,” Matthew Ballou, Aug 29, 2015,
Columbia Tribune, “Ovation: Sumire Taniai” Amy Wilder, June 19, 2014
http://www.columbiatribune.com/arts_life/ovation/sumire-taniai/article_042bf697-8924-5d01-9b0c-cbc29df1aa35.html/
The Maneater, “Imaginative Play to open at Craft Studio,” Maddie Magruder, June 3, 2014, [Photo & Article]
Columbia Missourian, “Art Talk:Art invites us to use our imagination like children do,” Joy Mayer, May 28, 2014