- Teruko Yokoi is an artist who was born in Aichi, Japan and lived in Switzerland. She worked mainly in Europe and the United States. Just like “poems drawn with color” she called her art works as, she created art works on the subject of seasonal scenery and nature such as flowers by various techniques/mediums, egg tempera, oil painting, water color, lithograph and so on. Her works was characterized fusion of representational and abstract paintings, her colorful sense and bold composition.
| 1924 | Born in Nagoya, Aichi and soon moves to Tsushima, Japan. From an early age receives oil painting lessons from Kouki Suzuki, a member of Shunyo-kai Art Society. Graduates from Aichi Prefectural Tsushima Girls High School (now Aichi Prefectural Tsushima High School). |
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| 1949 | Goes to Tokyo, be a listener at Joshibi University of Art and Design. Studies under Takanori Kinoshita, a member of Issuikai. Wins prizes in Issuikai Exhibition and Nitten Exhibition. |
| 1950 | Wins prizes in Issuikai Exhibition. |
| 1951 | Wins prizes in Issuikai Exhibition and wins prizes《outside the studio》in Nitten Exhibition |
| 1953 | In January, moves to United States and enters California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute) in San Francisco. Her painting experiences a gradual shift toward abstraction. |
| 1954 | Receives Top Honor Scholarship. |
| 1955 | In April, wins fourth prize in Seventy-Fourth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition held at San Francisco Museum of Art. In May, wins Japan Society Scholarship in the category of painting. In the same year composer Toshi Ichiyanagi and violinist Kenji Kobayashi win in the category of music. In July, holds solo exhibition of oil paintings at California Palace of the Legion of Honor. In September, moves to New York to study with the abstract expressionist painter, Hans Hoffman. |
| 1956 | In April, exhibits 50 sketches with India ink at the special exhibition for the 50 years of San Francisco Earthquake in National Mall in Washington, D.C.. Be warmly treated by an artist Kenzo Okada and his wife. Studies with Julian Levi at Art Student League of New York in New York. The use of color to express different atmospheres of the four seasons appears in her work. |
| 1957 | Wins prizes in Philadelphia Annual Exhibition at Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts. |
| 1958 | Wins prizes in Washington Biennale at Corcoran Gallery of Art. |
| 1959 | Marries Sam Francis. |
| 1960 | Moves to Paris. Receives influence from Art informel movement. In November, returns temporarily to Japan. |
| 1962 | In May, moves to Bern, Switzerland. |
| 1964 | In March, she gets successful in the exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel and builds her position as an artist in Switzerland. |
| 1991 | Obtains Swiss nationality and citizenship of the city of Bern. |
| 2004 | In November, Teruko Yokoi Hinageshi Art Museum is founded in Ena, Gifu. |
| 2008 | In November, Teruko Yokoi Fuji Museum of Art is founded in Fuji, Shizuoka. |
| 2020 | Teruko Yokoi dies. |
Teruko Yokoi participated in the art scene of Japan, Switzerland, Germany and the United States, where she held more than 90 solo exhibitions.
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1954 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, USA (oil paintings) 1955 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, USA (India ink, sketches) 1961 Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (oil paintings) 1967 Galerie Bernard, Solothurn, Switzerland (oil paintings) 1968 Galerie Felix Handschin, Basel, Switzerland (oil paintings)
Galerie Schindler, Bern, Switzerland (watercolors)1969 Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (oil paintings) 1971 Galerie Ida Niggli, St. Gallen, Switzerland (oil paintings, gouaches and graphics) 1972 Berner Galerie, Solothurn, Switzerland (egg temperas)
Galerie Atrium, Reinach, Switzerland (gouaches and lithographs)1973 Galerie Liatowitsch, Basel, Switzerland (gouaches and oil paintings)
Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland (egg temperas)1974 Galerie 57, Biel, Switzerland (gouaches) 1975 Loeb-Galerie, Bern, Switzerland (litographs)
Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland (egg temperas)1977 Galerie 57, Biel, Switzerland (gouaches)
Galerie Liatowitsch, Basel, Switzerland (gouaches)1978 Galerie Atrium, Reinach, Switzerland (gouaches and watercolors)
Galerie Quadri, Lausanne, Switzerland (gouaches)
Galerie Plantahaus, Malans, Switzerland (gouaches)1979 Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland
Bucher Lang, Bern, Switzerland (lithographs)1980 Galerie Paul Bovee, Delemont, Switzerland (gouaches and lithographs)
Art 11’80, Basel, Switzerland (oil paintings and egg temperas)
Galerie Quadri, Lausanne, Switzerland1981 Galerie Art und Musik, Munich, Germany (lithographs and gouaches)
Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland (egg temperas)1982 Mitzi Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (gouaches)
Galerie Kornfeld, Zurich, Switzerland, (egg temperas)
Galerie Atrium, Basel, Switzerland (egg temperas)1983 Art 14’83, Basel, Switzerland (egg temperas)
Galerie Quadri, Lausanne, Switzerland (gouaches)1984 Gimpel-Hanover & Andre Emmerich Galerien, Zurich, Switzerland (egg temperas)
Bucher Lang, Bern, Switzerland (Haiku pictures)
Wolfsberg, Ermatingen, Switzerland (oil paintings and egg temperas)1985 Galerie H, Burgdorf, Switzerland (egg temperas) 1986 Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan
Galerie Zimmermannhaus, Brugg, Switzerland1987 Galerie Atrium, Basel, Switzerland
Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan1988 Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland
Galerie L’Embielle, Montreux, Switzerland (gouaches)1989 Galerie Flora, Kirchberg, Switzerland
Galerie Quadri, Ferlens, Switzerland
Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland
Abbatial de Belleley, Belleley, Switzerland
Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich, Switzerland1990 Galerie Zimmermannhaus, Brugg, Switzerland 1991 Galerie Quadri, Ferlens, Switzerland
Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland1992 Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland (egg temperas and oil paintings)
Galerie Quadri, Ferlens, Switzerland
Galerie 63, Klosters, Switzerland1993 Galerie Pavillon, Zurich, Switzerland 1994 Galerie Wild, Frankfurt, Germany 1995 Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich, Switzerland
Centre de Sornetan, Sornetan, Switzerland
Galerie Zimmermannhaus, Brugg, Switzerland (lithographs)1996 International Culture Center, Nagoya, Japan 1997 Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland 1999 Galerie Lex Artis, Zollikon, Switzerland 2000 Galerie Esther Munger, Burgdorf, Switzerland 2001 Galerie Shaer & Wildbolz, Solothurn, Switzerland 2002 Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland
Rose Theatre (Fuji City Cultural Hall), Fuji, Japan2004 Galerie am Leewasser, Brunnen, Switzerland 2006 Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland (acrylics and egg temperas) 2009 Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland 2010 Wolfsberg, Ermatingen, Switzerland 2012 Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland 2014 Kambly SA, Trubschachen, Switzerland 2015 Koumi-Machi Kougen Museum of Art, Koumi, Japan 2016 Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland 2019 Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland 2020 Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland 2020 Furukawa Art Museum Branch Tamesaburo Memorial Museum, Nagoya, Japan
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1950 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum "The 12th Annual Issuikai Exhibition", Tokyo, Japan 1951 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum "The 13th Annual Issuikai Exhibition", Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum "The 7th Annual Nitten Exhibition", Tokyo, Japan1955 San Francisco Museum of Art "74th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association", San Francisco, USA (oil paintings) 1956 "Special Art Exhibition for San Francisco Earthquake" in National Mall, Washington D.C., USA (India ink, sketches) 1957 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts "Philadelphia Annual Exhibition", Philadelphia, USA 1958 Corcoran Gallery of Art "Washington Biennale", Washington D.C., USA 1960 Gibbs Gallery, London, UK 1964 Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (oil paintings) 1975 Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lubeck, Germany (gouaches)
Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bern ”Five painters from abroad in the Canton of Berne”, Bern, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Bern "Great Piece of Art", Bern, Switzerland
Loeb Galerie, Bern, Switzerland1976 Galerie Art Shop, Basel, Switzerland (lithographs) 1979 Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland (gouaches)
Kunstmuseum Bern “Bernese Artists and their Collectors”, Bern, Switzerland1980 Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, USA 1981 Haus der Kunst, Grosse Kunstausstellung, Munich, Germany 1984 Kultur Arena Wittigkofen, Bern, Switzerland 1998 Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland 2005 Trubschachen Kunstausstellung, Bern, Switzerland
Kultur Arena Wittigkofen, Bern, Switzerland2011 Kultur Arena Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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1986 Teruko Yokoi “Comme un petit coquelicot” (Exhibition catalogue) Printed in Japan. 1990 Teruko Yokoi “The Five Seasons” (Art book) Printed in Switzerland. 2009 Teruko Yokoi “Schnee Mond Blumen” (Exhibition catalogue) Printed in Switzerland 2010 Teruko Yokoi “Mond-Sonne-Jahreszeiten” (Exhibition catalogue) Printed in Switzerland 2012 Teruko Yokoi “Schnee Mond Blumen II” (Exhibition catalogue) Printed in Switzerland 2015 Teruko Yokoi “70 years of artist life of Teruko Yokoi -Japanese Poems drawn in Switzerland-” (Exhibition catalogue) Printed in Japan 2020 Teruko Yokoi “Teruko Yokoi.TOKYO-NEW YORK-PARIS-BERN” (Exhibition catalogue) Printed in Switzerland
