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Biography
Teruko Yokoi (横井 照子, Yokoi Teruko, born 1924) is an artist, most known for her abstract paintings.
Early life
Yokoi was born in 1924 in Tsushima, Japan.She moved to the United States in 1953, and studied at the California School of Fine Arts.
Career
As of 2010, Yokoi has held almost 80 solo exhibitions since 1954. She has held exhibitions at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Seibu Art Forum, and the Galerie Kornfeld in Bern, among others. She has studied under Takanori Kinoshita, with Hans Hofmann, and with Julian Levi. She has won prizes at the Philadelphia Annual Exhibition in 1957, the Washington Biennale, and the San Francisco annual art exhibition. In November 2004, the Teruko Yokoi Hinagashi Museum was founded in Ena, Gifu, and in 2008, the Yokoi Teruko Fuji Museum of Art was founded in Fuji, Shizuoka.
Personal life
Yokoi married famous painter Sam Francis, with whom she had a daughter.
Books
- Comme un petit coquelicot (1986)
- The Five Seasons (1990)
- Schnee Mond Blumen (2009)
- Mond-Sonne Jahrezeiten (2010)