Junko Chodos

Junko Chodos (born 1939) is a contemporary artist born and educated in Japan and residing in the United States since 1968. Her works represent a wide variety of techniques and styles, ranging from pencil, pen, and collage, to works done with acrylic. Junko describes her art as "Centripetal", in the belief that both the artist and the viewer have a "center" - a "soul" - and that authentic art moves from the soul of the artist to the soul of the viewer.

Junko’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide as below:

Selected Public Collections:

2009: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, “Mass Killing, No. 1, This Must Never Happen Again”

2008: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, “Individuation Journal, No. 7, The Fall of Man”

2005: Fresno Art Museum, “Giant Burls, No. 5”

1998: Long Beach Museum of Art, “Celestial Curtain, No. 1”

1995: Pacific Asia Museum, “Dead Flower Series, No. 8”

1994: Long Beach Museum of Art, “Interplanetary Icon, No. 9”

1991: Long Beach Museum of Art, “Burls Series, No. 18”

BA Art History and Philosophy from Waseda University, in Japan, 1968

2018 Can We Hear our Own Voice? at the Cole Art Center/Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas;

2012 FATHOM- The first Three Acts Restaged (North Park Theater, San Diego)

2010-2011 UCLA - Dortort Gallery, Solo Exhibit coordinated with "Art and Religion" Symposium -- Concerning Art and Religion series.

2006 North Park Theater, San Diego, California. FATHOM: The Body as Universe. Stage art for dance production: 40 panels grouped into seven scenes, each group twelve feet high by 35 feet wide.

2005 Fresno Art Museum, Junko Chodos: Translucent
Meditations, one-person show given as part of Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist of the Year award.

2005 Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis,
Missouri: The Breath of Consciousness.

2004 Exhibit of Cry of Ecstasy at Panavision

2003 Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California,
Requiem for an Executed Bird, at the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

2002 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art: A Passionate Witness

2001 Long Beach Museum of Art, Metamorphoses: The
Transformative Vision of Junko Chodos

1995 Pacific Asia Museum (Foyer Gallery), Pasadena, California In the Forest of Amida Buddha

1992 L.A. Artcore Annex, Art, Mysticism and Psychology, Curated by Ra...