"Selfish; Yuko Sugimoto," the first large-scale solo exhibition by illustrator Yuko Sugimoto, who passed away in 2011, will be held at the Pola Museum Annex in Ginza from October 4th. Following the Tokyo exhibition, the exhibition will be held in Osaka at Nakanoshima Banks from November 8th to 17th. The exhibition will bring together a best-of collection of unpublished original drawings from works previously only published in advertisements, magazines, and packaging. Additionally, the venue will be offering an advance sale of her first collection of illustrations, "Yuko Sugimoto Illustration Box: FOREVER BEAUTY" (published by Kodansha), which will be published on October 9th. The exhibition features 173 of her representative works, ranging from illustrations for "VoCE" to illustrations provided for Seiko Matsuda's 20th anniversary CD box and advertising posters. Design studio Groovisions handled the design, as Sugimoto had known studio representative Hiroshi Ito since their days in Kyoto. The book also includes "Queen Skull," a memoir of the two's early days as unknowns, by writer Nobara Takemoto, whom Sugimoto met at an editorial production company in Osaka in the early 1990s. Yuko Sugimoto is an illustrator born in Osaka in 1967. After working as a makeup assistant for Yasumasa Morimura's self-portrait series "Actress," a lecturer at Kyoto College of Art, she began working as an illustrator for the beauty pages of SAVVY magazine in 1995. Her breakthrough came in 1998, when she illustrated the lead column of Voce, Japan's first major beauty magazine. She went on to illustrate numerous women's magazines, including SPUR, Sweet, and BAILA, as well as mook books such as Nail Basics (published by Gakken Publishing). She was also a beauty and fashion enthusiast, and illustrated the 2008 IPSA Christmas kit. She passed away in 2011.


[Event Information]
Yuko Sugimoto Solo Exhibition "selfish;yuko sugimoto"
Venue: Pola Museum Annex
Address: 3rd floor, Pola Ginza Building, 1-7-7 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Period: October 4th to November 4th, 2013 (Open every day during the exhibition period)
Time: 11:00 to 20:00 (Last admission 30 minutes before closing)
Admission: Free

[Osaka Exhibition]
Venue: Nakanoshima Design Museum
Address: 2nd floor, Nakanoshima Banks, 5-3-60 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka
Period: November 8th to 17th, 2013 (Open every day during the exhibition period)
Time: 11:00 to 19:00 (Last admission 30 minutes before closing)
Admission: Free