Sumire Skye Taniai
taniaisumi@gmail.com
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, BFA Painting, Columbia, MO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Good Asian, Burbank, Los Angeles, CA [forthcoming 03]
2020 Mooshu, Donkey, and the Floating Wor(l)ds, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO [09]
2014 Imaginative Play, Craft Studio Gallery, Columbia, MO [06]
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Salon Galerie, residence of Günter Faltin, Grunewald, Germany [09]
Habitat Contemporary, two person exhibition with Austin Carlos Gutierrez, Kansas City, MO
[09]
Flat Files, H&R Blockspace, Kansas City, MO [07]
BAAR Unapologetic Art Journey, Charlotte Street Foundation & Habitat Contemporary along with panel discussion at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO [forthcoming 07]
New Media Summit, XVERSO, 21C Museum KC, Kansas City, MO [forthcoming 06]
Midwest Design and Furniture Fair, [06]
Words and Silences- collection from Elizabeth Oran, PLUG Gallery, [05]
Asian American Art Expo, MAAY Foundation, Kansas City, MO [05]
Out of Context: Re-framing Asian American Contemporary Art. XVERSO platform curated NFT drop [01]
2022 NADA Curated, through Office Space Gallery, New York, NY [06]
Juried by Maria Elena Ordoniz (Curator, Perez Art Museum Miami)
I am… ArtsKC X NAAAP KC, Kansas City, MO [05]
Art Market San Francisco, through Habitat Contemporary Gallery, San Francisco, CA
[forthcoming April]
marginalia, Office Space Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT [03]
2021 Art Fair 14C, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey City, NJ [11]
Exhibit #13, Holsum Gallery, Kansas City, MO [11]
Cafe Cà Phê, pop up exhibition for moon festival, Kansas City, MO [09]
Restraint and Limitation, (Traveling Exhibit) Freeark Gallery, Riverside, IL [05]
Train to My Dream, Workshop 4200, Chicago IL [03]
2020 Art in the Post, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL [09]
Flat Files, Collar Works, Curated by Jessica Cannon, Troy, NY [2020-2021]
ASYAAF, Gallery LVS & Crafts, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea [07]
Still Relevant, Happy Gallery Chicago, Chicago, IL [05]
Touch, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL [forthcoming 05]
Art-In-Place, Terrain Exhibitions and CNL Projects, Chicago, IL [05]
Virtual Exhibition, Suspension Galleries, Chicago, IL [05]
Gummies Gallery with Pocke Gallery, Tokyo, Japan [forthcoming 05]
Fe*Mail*Art: 2020 Postcard Exhibition, Air Gallery, Brooklyn, NY [02]
Time Stamp, Parlour and Ramp Gallery, Chicago, IL [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 exhibit), 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
2021 Office Space Collective, Salt Lake City, UT [2022-present]
2020 Contributing Writer, Aoyama 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 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Summer Internship, Development Department,
Kansas City, MO [July-October]
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2019 Etsuko Residency, Yamaguchi, Japan (June-Sep)
2017 New Artist Society Merit Scholarship, Full tuition (2017-2019)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2013 Honorable Mention, Boone County Art Show, Boone County National Bank, Columbia, MO
PUBLICATIONS
Southwest Contemporary, 12 Southwest Art Exhibitions to Check Out in Spring, 2022, March
11, 2022
https://southwestcontemporary.com/12-southwest-art-exhibitions-spring-2022/
Fleur de lis poetry, Cover Art for literary journal, Saint Louis, MO, 2022
West Branch Wired, Cover Art for literary journal, Bucknell University, Sep 1, 2021
The Maneater, "New Exhibit 'Mooshu, Donkey, and the Floating Wor(l)ds' makes its debut at
George Caleb Bingham Gallery" Charlie Recchia, Oct 21, 2020.
New American Paintings, MFA Annual, Issue #147 2020
Waki Channel, TV interview for Homesick Remedy, Nov 4, 2019
TYS TV Yamaguchi, TV interview for Homesick Remedy, Oct 28, 2019
https://tys.co.jp/LocalNews/Detail/201910281237_0030861
ADF Magazine, "Homesick Remedy- JAW in Japan", Yuji Kumon, Oct 23, 2019
https://www.adfwebmagazine.jp/en/homesick-remedy/
Mainichi Newspaper, Interview for Homesick Remedy, Oct 21, 2019
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20191021/ddl/k35/040/286000c
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,
https://eikonktizo.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/evoke-at-imago-gallery-and-cultural-center/
Columbia Tribune, “Ovation: Sumire Taniai” Amy Wilder, June 19, 2014
The Maneater, “Imaginative Play to open at Craft Studio,” Maddie Magruder, June 3, 2014,
Columbia Missourian, “Art Talk:Art invites us to use our imagination like children do,” Joy
Mayer, May 28, 2014
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
“Big T’s BBQ” Collection Elizabeth Oran
“Who will protect our culture in this country if I don’t? Ver.2” Collection Elizabeth Oran
“Post Card to the Future” Collection Elizabeth Oran
“Sailor Moon” Private collection of Joaquin Palting