Born Tokyo, Japan
Education
2019 MFA in Studio Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1990 PhD In Experimental Psychology, York University, Canada
1983 BFA in Visual Arts, York University, Canada
1979 BA in Psychology (First Class Honors), McGill University, Canada
Selected Solo, Two- and Three-Person Exhibitions
2024 (solo) Random/Order, NC School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC
2024 (solo) Where Are We to Disappear, David McCune International Art Gallery, Methodist University, Fayetteville, NC
2023 Sequential with Renzo Ortega, Craven Allen Gallery, Durham, NC
2022 (solo) Shiro Kuro, Red Hat Open Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2022 (solo) What Is, What is Not, City Market Artist Collective, Raleigh, NC
2021 (solo) Truth in the Time of COVID, Peel Gallery, Carrboro, NC
2021 Transcending Geometry, OneOneOne Lobby Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2019 (solo) No Thing is Simple, Gatewood Gallery, UNC Greensboro, NC
2018 (solo) Brodhead Center Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC
2017 (solo) Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days, Allenton Gallery, Durham Arts Council, NC
2017 Precarious Edifices, The Block Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2015 Pas de Deux, The Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
2005 (solo) Mill Valley Arts Commission, CA
2003 (solo) University of California at Berkeley, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 (upcoming) Constructed (Disquiet), Maine Jewish Museum. Portland, ME
2024 DAWN, Light Art & Design Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2024 Pulp & Paper: Paper & Book in Southern Appalachia, Bowling Rock Art & History Museum ,NC
2023 Neo-Psychedelia, CAM Raleigh, NC
2023 Beyond Painting, Spartanburg Art Museum, SC
2023 Uproar Festival of Public Art, Orange County, NC
2022 B:22 Wiregrass Biennial, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
2022 FRESH, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2022 Coined in the South 2022, Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC
2021 Art on Paper 2021, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2021 My Octopus Teacher Inspiration, WoArtBlog Online Exhibition, Brooklyn, NC
2021 Social Distancing: Remote Visits Part VII, The Coastal Post
2021 ArtFields 2021, Lake City, SC
2020 Congruence, I Like Your Work Summer Online Juried Show
2020 B20: Wiregrass Biennial, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
2020 33rd Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese State U, LA
2020 North Carolina Artists Exhibition, CAM, Raleigh, NC
2020 Space Case, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2019 Winter Show, Greenhill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC
2019 Coined in the South, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
2019 Sacred Wasteland, MFA Group Exhibition, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2019 Under the Rug, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Durham Fruit Company, NC
2017 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2017 North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Raleigh Fine Arts Society, NC
2016 Winter Show, Greenhill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC
2016 Works on Paper NYC IV, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, LIC, NY
2016 Contemporary South, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
2015 Small Works 4, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2015 FRESH, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2015 Mark on the Wall, Greenly Art Gallery of Bloomsburg University, PA
2015 Carolina's Got Art! Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2014 Over the Edge: Paperworks Unbound, The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Small Works 3, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2014 Contemporary South, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
2004 Juried Show, Museum of Los Gatos, CA
2000 Bay Area Figurative, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Professional Experience
2019- Co-founder and Co-curator, BASEMENT, Chapel Hill, NC
1996- Studio Artist, San Francisco, CA and Chapel Hill, NC
1992-96 Freelance Science Illustrator, San Francisco, CA
1990-92 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Neurobiology, Stanford U. School of Medicine
Selected Lectures and Presentations
2022 Live in the Studio: Chieko Murasugi, Webinar, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2022 Artist Q&A, Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Asheville, NC
2022 The Scientific Method and the Creative Process with Chieko Murasugi, Level Up Artists Podcast
2015 “Seeing Color: Art, Vision and the Brain,” a symposium co-sponsored by the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences & Nasher Museum of Art
Awards & Grants
2022 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Support Grant, Durham, NC
2021 Artist Project Grant, Orange County Arts Commission, Chapel Hill, NC
2021 Women of Achievement, Chapel Hill Magazine, NC
2021 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Support Grant, Durham, NC
2020 Artist Project Grant, Orange County Arts Commission, Chapel Hill, NC
2017 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant, Durham Arts Council, NC
2017 Honorable Mention, North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Raleigh Fine Arts Society, NC
2015 Honorable Mention, The Mark On the Wall, Greenly Art Gallery of Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
Artists Residencies
2023 Wildacres Residency, New Switzerland, NC
2022 Black Mountain College + Art Center Digital Residency, Asheville, NC
2021 Hambidge Center Fellow, Rabun Gap, GA
Commissions
2020 Peel Gallery, mural, Carrboro, NC
2019 School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC
Selected Press
2023 "Red Hat Open Gallery | Artist Spotlight on Chieko Murasugi, Raleigh, NC
2022 "Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina" by Liza Roberts, UNC Press.
2021 "Art on Paper: The 46th Exhibition," Exhibition catalog, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro, NC
2021 Social Distancing: Remote Visits Part VII, The Coastal Post
2021 "Women of Achievement in 8th Annual Women's Issue," Chapel Hill Magazine, NC
2021 'What we see can be deceptive': Art gallery hosts 'Transcending Geometry' exhibition, The Daily Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, NC
2020 "Art Underground: Chapel Hill Art Space BASEMENT hosts digital arts residency program," The Daily Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, NC
2020 "Doing it for Themselves: New Artist-Run Spaces in Chapel Hill and Carrboro," Orange County Arts Commission, NC
2020 "B:20 Artist Interview with Chieko Murasugi," Wiregrass Museum of Art Blog, Dothan, AL
2017 Becoming Durham: Grit, Belief, and A City Transformed by E. Spicer Rice and R. Sutton Anders
2015 “Mark on the Wall: A juried exhibition of works on paper,” The Gallery at Greenly Center, Bloomsburg U. of Pennsylvania
2014 Distinguished Artist, “Hidden,” ArtAscent Journal of Art and Literature
Collections
TIAA, Charlotte, NC
Honeywell, Charlotte, NC
Ellis Apartments, Charlotte, NC
School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC
Brodhead Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
Raleigh Municipal Art Collection, NC
Gallery Affiliations
Craven Allen Gallery, Durham, NC
Peel Gallery, Carrboro, NC
Selected Scientific Publications
CM Murasugi, CD Salzman, WT Newsome, 1993. “Microstimulation in visual area MT: Effect of varying pulse amplitude and frequency.” The Journal of Neuroscience 13 (4): 1719-29.
CD Salzman, CM Murasugi, Ken Britten, WT Newsome, 1992. “Microstimulation in Visual Area MT: Effects on Direction Discrimination Performance.” The Journal of Neuroscience 12(6): 2331-5.
CM Murasugi, Ian P. Howard. 1989. “Human Horizontal Optokinetic Nystagmus Elicited by the Upper Versus the Lower Visual Fields.” Visual Neuroscience 2(1): 73-9.
CM Murasugi, Ian P. Howard, Masao Ohmi. 1989. “Human optokinetic nystagmus: Competition between stationary and moving displays.” Attention Perception & Psychophysics 45(2): 137-144.
C Murasugi, Ian P Howard, 1989. “Up-down asymmetry in human vertical optokinetic nystagmus and after nystagmus: contributions of the central and peripheral retinae.” Experimental Brain Research 77(1): 183-92.
Chieko M. Murasugi, Ian P Howard, Masao Ohmi, 1986. “Optokinetic nystagmus: The effects of stationary edges, alone and in combination with central occlusion.” Vision Research 26(7): 1155-1162.