.jpg)
Toko Shinoda
Classic, 1990's
Lithograph with hand brush strokes, ink and coloring on paper
Edition AP/50
22.4 x 15.7 inches (56.9 x 39.9 cm)
TOKO SHINODA 篠田桃紅
Born in 1913 in Dalian, Manchuria (present-day China)
Died in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan
Toko Shinoda was one of the world’s oldest practicing artists as well as one of its most accomplished. Having begun her study of calligraphy at the age of six, Shinoda’s work blends traditional Sumi ink painting with modern abstraction which she was exposed to while living in New York City in the 1950s. Her paintings and lithographs are held in numerous esteemed public collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Art in Tokyo, the British Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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)
2003
Toko Shinoda: Variations of Vermillion (Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo)
1996
Toko Shinoda: Visual Poetry (Singapore Art Museum, Singapore)
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)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Sumi: Japanese Ink Painting From Post-War to the Present (SEIZAN Gallery, New York)
2015
Breaking Barriers—Japanese Women Print Artists 1950-2000 (Portland Art Museum, Oregon)
2009
Japanese Femininity—Shinoda, Iwami, Matsubara, Oda and Shiomi (Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helinski)
1994
Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky (Yokohama Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Art)
1954
Japanese Calligraphy (The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
EXHIBITIONS
Sumi: Japanese Ink Painting from Post-War to the Present