Teruko Yokoi

was a Japanese-born Swiss artist, known for her abstract paintings.

Early life and education

Yokoi was born in 1924 in Nagoya, Aichi, and soon after moved to Tsushima, Japan.

After winning prizes in the Issuikai and Nitten Exhibitions between 1949 and 1951, she moved to the United States in 1953, to study at the California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute). and in 2008, the Yokoi Teruko Fuji Museum of Art was founded in Fuji, Shizuoka.

In 2014, at age 90, Yokoi created works for a benefit exhibition, with the proceeds from the paintings going to UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch."

Personal life Yokoi married the painter Sam Francis, with whom she had a daughter.

After the couple separated in 1962, she moved to Bern, Switzerland.

Books Comme un petit coquelicot (1986) Die fünf Jahreszeiten. Les cinq saisons. The five seasons: Teruko Yokoi (1990) Teruko Yokoi - Schnee Mond Blumen (2009) Mond-Sonne Jahrezeiten (2010) 70 years of artist life of Teruko Yokoi -Japanese Poems drawn in Switzerland (2015)