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TOKO SHINODA

Toko Shinoda (March 28, 1913 - March 1, 2021) is a Japanese artist, printmaker, and essayist. Born in an artistic family, her cousin is the film director Masahiro Shinoda, and her nephew is architect Shigeru Wakayama.

Born in Dailin (former Manchuria), China 1913, Shinoda received training from her father in calligraphy at age six. Thereafter attending an all-girls school, Shinoda began perfecting her calligraphy mostly self-acquired. Several years from 1950, Shinoda had many exchanges with avant-garde writers who belonged to the Academy of Calligraphy Art. In 1956, she took up residence in the United States during a time when the abstract expressionist painting was at its peak where she held various exhibitions across the country.

Shinoda’s elegant ink painting style pushes against the confines of the traditions in calligraphy. Working with primarily sumi ink, Shinoda would paint in backdrops of gold, silver, or platinum leaf, and occasionally in vermilion ink streaks. During her stay in the United States, Shinoda’s works were received in high regards. However, she returned to Japan due to the dry climate of the United States, which was unsuitable for ink painting. Since then, she has continued her art in Japan and published works in various countries engaging in lithographic printing.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019: Sumi: Japanese Ink Painting From Post-War to the Present (SEIZAN Gallery, New York)
2015: The Tolman Collection’s 103 Views of Toko Shinoda (Conrad Tokyo, Tokyo)
2013: Toko Shinoda A Lifetime of Accomplishment (Musee Tomo, Tokyo)
2012: Guided by the Brushes (The Tolman Collection, New York)
2009: Japanese Femininity—Shinoda, Iwami, Matsubara, Oda and Shiomi (Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helinski)
2003: Toko Shinoda: Variations of Vermillion (Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo)
1996: Toko Shinoda: Visual Poetry (Singapore Art Museum, Singapore)
1994: Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky (Yokohama Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Art)
1982: Silver and Black (Galerie Tokoro, Tokyo)
1957: Solo Exhibition (Bertha Schaefer’s Gallery, New York)
Solo Exhibition (Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago)
1956: Solo Exhibition (Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo)
1954: Japanese Calligraphy (The Museum of Modern Art, New York)

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Museum of Modern Art (New York, the USA) , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, the USA) , Brooklyn Museum （New York, the USA) , Metropolitan Museum (New York, the USA) , The National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo, Japan) , The British Museum (London, England) , The National Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, USA) , Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian (Washington, D.C., the USA) , The Singapore Art Museum (Singapore) , The National Museum of Singapore (Singapore) , The Kröller-Müller Museum (Gelderland, Netherlands) , The Albright–Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York, the USA) , The Cincinnati Art Museum （Ohio, the USA) , The Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, the USA)

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