Teruko Yokoi

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Teruko Yokoi (born 1924 in Tsushima , Aichi Prefecture ) is a Japanese artist .

life and work

Yokoi was born in Tsushima in 1924. Her father was a calligrapher . She received early oil painting lessons from Kouki Suzuki, a member of the Shunyo-kai Art Society, and graduated from Tsushima Girls' High School. In 1949 she moved to Tokyo, where she attended a private art school for women, Joshibi University of Art and Design. Here she studied with Takanori Kinoshita . She received prizes at the Issuikai (1949, 1950, 1951) and the Nitten (1949, 1951) exhibitions. In 1954 she moved to San Francisco and studied at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute ), where she received a scholarship for special achievements.

In 1955 she won fourth prize at the 74th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, held at the San Francisco Museum of Art. That same year, she received a scholarship from the Japan Society in the painting category and in July had a solo exhibition of oil paintings at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. In September she moved to New York and took lessons from Hans Hofmann , a representative of Abstract Expressionism . In 1956 she studied with Julian E. Levi at the Art Students League of New York and in 1957 received an award at the Philadelphia Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and on the occasion of the Twenty-Fifth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Kind in Washington, DC

In 1959 she married Sam Francis and moved to Paris in 1960; in the same year she took part in a group exhibition at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York. In 1961 she temporarily returned to Japan and then moved to Bern in May 1962 . There she showed her works together with Walter Bodmer and Otto Tschumi in an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel curated by director Arnold Rüdlinger . In 1975 she took part in the Second Bern Art Exhibition, entitled Large Format , in the Kunsthalle Bern .

In 1991, Yokoi took on Swiss citizenship and became a citizen of the city of Bern. In 2004 she founded the Teruko Yokoi Hinageshi Art Museum in Ena, Gifu Prefecture and in 2008 the Yokoi Teruko Fuji Museum of Art in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture.

In 2020 the artist was honored in a large retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Bern.

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literature

  • Comme un petit coquelicot (1986)
  • The five seasons. Les cinq seasons. The five seasons: Teruko Yokoi (1990)
  • Teruko Yokoi - Snow Moon Flowers (2009)
  • Moon-Sun Seasons (2010)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marta Dziewańska: Teruko Yokoi Tokyo - New York - Paris - Bern. Kunstmuseum Bern , accessed on February 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Yokoi, Teruko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Tsushima , Aichi Prefecture