Born in Tokyo in 1973, Tsugami graduated from Kyoto University of the Arts with an MFA in Fine Arts in 1998 and stayed in New York in 1996 with a grant from the 7th Sekiguchi Art Fund. From 2013 to 2014, she had the opportunity to study in the UK as a trainee at the Gotoh Memorial Foundation. She consistently creates landscape paintings, and the word “View” is always included in the title. Through the experience of repeated residencies abroad, Tsugami has established her unique style of landscape painting. Although Tsugami’s works are based on landscape sketches, the colors and images in the finished works are abstracted and do not directly show the actual landscape she has seen. However, just as the Impressionist artists captured the light in the landscape and put more emphasis on the sensation than on tangibleness to create their paintings, the landscape in Tsugami’s work is a vision that is rooted in reality but internalized at the end of the color and strokes spread on the canvas. Major solo exhibitions were held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Karuizawa (Nagano) in 2023, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in 2019, The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo) in 2018, Ichinomiya City Memorial Art Museum of Setsuko Migishi (Aichi) in 2013, Ohara Museum of Art (Okayama) in 2005, etc. Her works are collected by numerous art museums, such as The National Museum of Art (Osaka), The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Ohara Museum of Art (Okayama), and Arts Maebashi (Gunma).