Junko Yoda
Bio
Junko Yoda
I switched my art materials from oil on canvas to acrylic and washi. It was almost 50 years ago, when I moved to U.S.A. from Japan. I was born in Tokushima Japan in 1943.
In 1966, I graduated from Musashino Art University in Tokyo.
My work features the use of 2 or 3 layers of handmade washi which I colored with acrylic paint.
The subject matter has always come from landscapes, “looking down from high above on to the earth”.
In 2001, when I was working on “River of Hiroshima” which was a commissioned work by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,
I found a new technique to color washi by “dripping acrylic color on to washi on the floor”.
It helped me to stand up from the anger and sadness of 9/11.
Recently, I added photo collage as a new material along with acrylic and washi.
私は、私の作品造りの素材を油絵の具とキャンバスからアクリル・カ ラーと和紙に変更しました。 それは、私が日本からアメリカに制作の場を移したばかりの頃で、50年 も前のことになります。 私は、1943年に徳島県に生まれました。1966年、武蔵野美術大 学を卒業。1969年にニューヨークに移住。 私の作品の特徴は、アクリル・カラーで彩色した手製の和紙を2層、時 には3層に重ねて使用していることです。 常に風景を描き、高所から見下ろす地球は永遠のテーマです。 2001年、広島市現代美術館の委託制作で「広島の川」を製作中のこ とでした。アクリル・カラーを床に広げた和紙の上にドリッピングする ことによって彩色する方法を編み出しました。それは、9・11で怒りと 悲しみで押し潰されていた私に立ち上がる力を与えてくれました。 最近になって、これまでの作品の素材であったアクリル・カラーと和紙 に加えて、フォト・コラージュを新しい素材として使用しています。
Junko Yoda
1943
Born in Tokushima, Japan
1962
Graduated from Takamatsu Daiichi Koto Gakko
1962-66
Musashino Art University, Tokyo BFA
1967
Musashino Art University, Special Course in Painting
1969
Moved to New York
One Person Exhibitions
2014
"Welcome Aboard / Flight Maps" Gallery MC, New York
2010
"Central Park" at Zabriskie Gallery, New York
2009
"Junko Yoda " at Sakura Shop, Takamatsu City, Japan
2008
"Shadows of the Clouds" at Zabriskie Gallery
2007
"Drawings" Facial Index NEW YORK, New York
2006
"Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
2006
“The Hudson” at Zabriskie Gallery, New York
2004
"Waves" at Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1999
Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1995
Sankokan, Takamatsu City, Japan
1994
Muramatsu gallery, Tokyo
1991
Muramatsu gallery, Tokyo
1989
Muramatsu gallery, Tokyo
1987
"Max Cole/ Junko Yoda" Two One Person Shows at Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1986
NAO, Tokushima-City, Japan
1986
NAO, Tokushima-City, Japan
1985
Hosokawa Gallery, Takamatsu City, Japan
1984-85
Galerie Zabriskie , Paris
1980
Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1979
Middle Space gallery, Takamatsu City, Japan
1968
Miyatake Gallery, Takamatsu City, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2017
“A Montage of Identities”curated by Iksong Jin, Gallery MC,New York
2017
“CROSSPOINT” Kagawa Museum, Kagawa Japan
2015
“Artists from Postwar Japan “ The Nippon Gallery at The Nippon Club, New York
2015
“Artists from Postwar Japan “ The Nippon Gallery at The Nippon Club, New York
2015
“Winter Salon 2015” Gallery MC, New York
2014
“Expanding Mode” Concepto Hudson, Hudson New York
2010
"Collection Exhibitions" at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japa
2009
"From Kagawa to Paris and New York" at Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan
2008
"Different Landscapes" at Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan
2007
"Making A Home" Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York at Japan Society, New York
2006
"Seeing/Creating Continuum" Post Modernism Art, Curated by Teruo Fujieda at Musashino
Art University, Tokyo
2005
"Zabriskie Gallery, New York/Paris: Season 1980" at Zabriskie Gallery, New York
2003
"Group Show at Planet Thai", Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
2002
"Winifred Lutz/Junko Yoda" Zabriskie Gallery, New York
2002
"The AAAC Story" Asian American Arts Centre, New York
2001
"Japanese Artists in New York" Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan
1998
"The World of Collage" Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan
1997
"Hung Out to Dry" at Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York
1995
"Collage" Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo
1989
"Japanese Artists from New York" at Yokohama SOGO Department Store, Yokohama, Japan
1988
"Cultural Currents" San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
1986
"Asian Artists of Brooklyn" at Brooklyn Museum Community Gallery, New York
1985
"Roots to Reality" Asian American in Transition at Henry Street Settlement, Louise Abrons Arts for Living Center, New York
1979
"Windows on the East" A Survey of Contemporary Art at World Trade Center, New York
1978
"New Talent Show" at Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Collections
The Essl Collection, Vienna, Austria
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Ohara Museum of Art, Japan
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan
The Tokushima Modern art Museum, Japan
Grants
1991
"6th Holbein Scholarship Award"
2001
"Life" "Love" Comissioned work by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
2005
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant