(b. Osaka, Japan)

 

Shin Sugino was born in Osaka, Japan and emigrated to Canada to study photography and cinema at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Toronto Metropolitan University) in 1968 at the age of nineteen. Soon after graduating in 1971, he won a Canada Council grant and began his career as a fine art photographer, while lecturing in the Department of Fine Arts at Toronto’s York University.