YNEZ JOHNSTON
YNEZ JOHNSTON
Selected Public Collections:
Achenbach Fndtn, San Francisco Fine Arts Museums,
CA
Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
Ball State Univ Art Gallery, Muncie, IN
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
California Palace/Legion of Honor, SF Fine
Arts Museums, CA
Cedars-Sinai Hospital Collection , Los Angeles,
CA
Cigna Musuem of Art, Philadelphia, PA
City Art Museum of Saint Louis, Missouri
San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco,
CA
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, CO
Commonwealth Edison Co., Chicago, Il
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Vincent Price Gallery/Cal.State Univ. Los
Angeles, CA
Ethicon Johnson & Johnson Coll., Chicago,
Il
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Sculpture Gardens, Palm City, FL
Grunwald Center Graphic Arts,UCLA/Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington,
DC
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell Univ,
Utica, NY
Krannert Art Museum, Univ of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana,
IL
Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach,
CA
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La
Jolla, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,
CA
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall
Park, Los Angeles, CA
Lowe Art Museum, Syracuse Univ., Syracuse,
NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Mus. of American Art. Smithsonian
Inst., Washington, DC
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington,
DC
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia,
PA
Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK
Phoeniz Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Sacramento Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
Sam Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
CA
San Diego Fune Arts Museum, San Diego, CA
Santa Fe Museum of Fine Art, Sante Fe, NM
Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara,
CA
University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson,
AZ
University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor,
MI
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
NY
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
| 1920 | Born in Berkeley, California. |
| 1937-46 | B.A. and M.A at University of California, Berkeley interspersed with traveling. |
| 1943 | One-person show, DeYoung Museum/San Francisco Fine Arts Museums. |
| 1947 | Travels to Yucatan, Mexico. |
| 1947-49 | Teaches at U.C. Berkeley, California.
Travels in Europe during vacation. |
| 1950-51 | Bunce, Johnson, Mundt exhibition; MOMA, New York (Penthouse). |
| 1951 | Receives Huntington Hartford Foundation Grant; moves to Los Angeles. |
| 1952 | Receives John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship; moves to Italy and Paris for six months. |
| 1954/55 | Teaches etching at Colorado Springs fine Arts Center; works with Emerson Woelffer and Robert Motherwell. |
| 1955 | Awarded Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant. |
| 1956 | One-person exhibition, California Palace/Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California. |
| 1957 | Receives second Huntington Hartford Foundation
Grant; moves to Santa Barbara, California.
One-person exhibition; Santa Barbara Museum of Art. |
| 1960 | Marries John Berry. |
| 1964-65 | John Berry receives Fulbright Grant; Johnson and Berry spend the next year traveling in India, Nepal, Cambodia and Japan. |
| 1965 | Johnson creates series at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, California |
| 1967 | One-person exhibition, San Francisco, California Museum of (Modern) Art. |
| 1972 | Johnson and Berry spend six months in Mexico and Great Britain. |
| 1976 | Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Grant. |
| 1977 | One-person exhibition; Mitsukoshi Gallery Tokyo, Japan. |
| 1978 | Retrospective exhibition at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Arts Cornell University. |
| 1982 | Artist-in-resident at Fullerton College, California with exhibition |
| 1994 | Retrospective exhibition, Bakerfield Art Museum, California. |
| 1997 | One-person exhibition Kennedy Museum of American Art, Ohio University. |
| 1998 | One-person exhibition Santa Cruz Museum of Art, California |