Yui Kugimiya is an artist born in Tokyo and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, her MFA from Yale University and attended Skowhegan in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include shows at Taymour Grahne in New York, Gallery Enrique Guererro in Mexico City, Marlborough Broome Street and Kunsthall Stavenger in Norway. She has also had recent group exhibitions at Kansas, Bermuda Galley, White Columns, David Castillo, Gasser & Grunert, and the Journal Gallery just to name a few. Her work is in the collection of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Brian met up with Yui at her current show at Taymour Grahne gallery in Tribeca and they spoke about her youth in Tokyo, her transition to the Northeast, her dabbling as a punk drummer and the moves she makes in her animations and paintings.