RAY YOSHIDA Born October 3, 1930 in Kapaa, HI Died January 10, 2009 in Kauai, HI Education 1948-50 University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI 1953 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1958 MFA, Syracuse University, New York, NY Solo Exhibitions 2015 Ray Yoshida: Mystery and Wit, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY Ray Yoshida: Early Works on Paper, Russel Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL 2013 Ray Yoshida Museum of Extraordinary Values, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI 2010 Touch and Go: Ray Yoshida and His Spheres of Influence, the School of the Art Institute Chicago, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL Ray Yoshida, Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, PA 1999 Ray Yoshida, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Ray Yoshida: A Retrospective 1968-1998, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, traveled to Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, and Madison Art Center, Madison, WI 1996 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 J. Maddux Parker Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1989 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL 1985 Ray Yoshida’s Adoptive Home for Misplaced Muses, the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Superior Street Gallery, Chicago, IL Ray Yoshida, Tyler School of Art Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 1984 Ray Yoshida: A Review, N.A.M.E Gallery, Chicago, IL 1982 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL 1981 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY 1977 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL 1975 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL 1960 Exhibition of Recent Paintings and Prints, Middle Hall Gallery, Rockford, IL Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 Less is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, ICA Boston, MA How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, UK; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, England 2018 The Figure and the Chicago Imagists: Selections from the Elmhurst College Art Collection, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL 3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY The Chicago Show, 56 Downing Street, Brooklyn, NY 2015 Celebration, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL 2009 Messages & Magic: 100 Years of Collage and Assemblage in America, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI 1998 Third Kind of Encounter – Asian Artists from Chicago, Taipei Gallery, NY 1997 The Chicago Imagists, Then to Now, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL Breadth of Aesthetic, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Grins: Humor and Whimsy in Contemporary Art, Millard Sheets Gallery, Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, CA 1996 Art in Chicago 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Second Sight: Modern Printmaking in Chicago, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Faculty Exhibition, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1995 47th Annual Purchase Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Group Exhibition (Paul Gopal-Chaudry, Gladys Nilsson, Barbara Rossi, and Ray Yoshida), Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY Phyllis Kind Gallery Revisited, The Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI 1994 Chicago Imagism – A 25-Year Survey, Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA Object Lessons, Six Asian American Artists from Chicago, DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL 1993 Imagery: Incongruous Juxtapositions, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL 1992 From America’s Studio: Drawing New Conclusions, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Faculty Exhibition, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1992-93 Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; traveled to Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Setagaya Art Museum, and Tokyo, Japan 1991-93 Spirited Visions: Portraits of Chicago Artists by Patty Carroll, The State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL (traveling exhibition) 1991 30 Years of the Honolulu Advertiser Gallery, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Faculty Sabbatical Exhibition, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1989 78th Annual Exhibition; Chicago, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA Birthday Cake (50th Anniversary Exhibition), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL On Kawara Date Paintings: 1966-1988, The Renaissance Society of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1987-88 Contemporary American Collage: 1960-1985, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; traveled to William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Lehigh University Galleries, Bethlehem, PA; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, NY; Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV Of New Account: The Chicago Imagists, The School of Art Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago – Seventies and Eighties, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL 1986-87 Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; traveled to Douglass Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark The Grand Example of ‘La Grande Jatte’: Seurat and Chicago Art, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL 1985 Kanyaku Imin Centennial Invitational Exhibit, The Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, HI The Figure in Chicago Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1984-86 Abstract/ Symbol/ Image – A Revision, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (traveling exhibition under the auspices of the Illinois Arts Council Visual Arts Touring Program) 1984-85 Imagist Update, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL 1984 Chicago Cross-Section, Anthony G. Trisolini Gallery, University of Ohio, Athens, OH Alternative Spaces: A History in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Joseph Yoakum: His Influence on Contemporary Art and Artists, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 50 Artists / 50 States, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Artists Call, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL Painting: From the Ground Up, The Junior Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1983 The Comic Art Show: Cartoons in Painting and Popular Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Invitational Exhibition for the Benefit of the Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL 1982 Chicago Imagists, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri and Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI Chicago Artists from the Borg-Warner Collection, The Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV Chicago on Paper, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 74th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1980-81 Who Chicago? An Exhibition of Chicago Imagists, Ceolfrith Art Gallery, Sunderland Arts Centre, Sunderland, England; traveled to Camden Arts Centra, London; Third Eye Center, Glasgow; The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; The Welsh Arts Council, Glynvivian Gallery, Swansea, Wales; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 1980 Some Recent Art from Chicago, The Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Selections from the Collection of George M. Irwin, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL 1979-80 Chicago Currents: The Koffler Foundation Collection of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 100 Artists/ 100 Years: Alumni of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1978 Eleven Chicago Painters, Florida State University Gallery of Art, Tallahassee, FL Contemporary Chicago Painters, Department of Art, Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA Chicago Collects Chicago, Gallery 200, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL False Face, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL Three Painters, The School Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1977 Chicago ‘77’, Ohio State University Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus, OH 29th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Seventy-sixth Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1976-77 West Coast ’76: The Chicago Connection, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA; traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 1976 Hyde Park Art Center Retrospective Exhibition: Historic Panoramic Abra Cadabra, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Old and New Works by Artists from the Phyllis Kind Gallery, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI Painting and Sculpture Today 1976, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Visions/Painting and Sculpture: Distinguished Alumni 1945 to Present, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Koffler Foundation Collection, The Illinois Arts Council (traveling exhibition) 1975-76 Illinois Artists ’76: A Bicentennial Invitational Exhibition, Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal; traveled to Illinois State University, Bloomington; Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, and Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL 1975 1975