Exhibition History
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1943
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Paintings by Inez [sic] Johnston, January 19 – February 7.
1945
San Francisco, California, Maxwell Gallery, January.
1946
Redlands, California, University of Redlands, October 30 – November 8.
Los Angeles, California, American Contemporary Gallery, Paintings by Ynez Johnston, December 14, 1947 – January 3, 1948.
1948
Los Angeles, California, American Contemporary Gallery, Paintings by Ynez Johnston, closed October 9.
Rotunda Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1950 Berkeley, California, Berkeley Book Bin, Artist of the Week, March.
Los Angeles, California, Fraymart Gallery, opened September 1, ran through September.
1951
Los Angeles, California, Fraymart Gallery, November 11 – December 4.
1952
Recent Paintings by Ynez Johnston, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, February 1 – 28.
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Prints by June Wayne and Inez [sic] Johnston, April 25 – May 25.
Los Angeles, California, Paul Kantor Gallery, May 5 – 31.
1953
Los Angeles, California, Paul Kantor Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Recent Paintings, Paul Kantor Gallery, November 9 – December 5.
1954
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, Ynez Johnston, December 17, 1954 – January 16, 1955.
1955
Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, January – February.
Los Angeles, California, Paul Kantor Gallery, Recent Watercolors and Etchings, November – December 2.
1956
San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Paintings by Ynez Johnston, April 14 – May 27.
Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
1957
Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Recent Paintings by Ynez Johnston, June 18 – July 21.
Beverly Hills, California, Paul Kantor Gallery, Ynez Johnston, closed December 7.
1958
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Prints and Drawings by Ynez Johnston, March 12 – 30.
Beverly Hills, California, Paul Kantor Gallery, Ynez Johnston, November 3 – 29.
London, England, Ohana [also spelled O’Hana] Gallery, Ynez Johnston, November 13 – 29.
1959
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Casa de Cultura Jalisciense, Galería Gerardo Suárez, Exposición de Pinturas de Ynez Johnston, July 2 – 31.
1961
Beverly Hills, California, Paul Kantor Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Paintings, December 11, 1961 – January 6, 1962.
Beloit College, Beloit, WI
1962
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, Travels of the Sage Narada, January 24 – March 7. Etchings by Ynez; poems by John Berry.
Chicago, Illinois, Scott-Richards Gallery, two-man show with Max Fleisher, May 15 – June 15.
1963
New Orleans, Louisiana, Barbara Cecil Gallery, April 2 – May 3.
1964
Beverly Hills, California, Paul Kantor Gallery, Ynez Johnston, March 16 – April 10.
1965
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Old State Capitol Building, Louisiana Art Commission Gallery, Paintings and Graphics by Ynez Johnston, loan from Barbara Cecil Gallery in New Orleans, August – September 1.
1966
San Francisco, California, Stewart-Verde Galleries, January – February 16.
Los Angeles, California, Adele Bednarz Gallery, March 14 – April 1.
Birmingham, Michigan, Little Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Lithographs from Tamarind Lithography Workshop, May – June 30.
Los Angeles, California, Occidental College, Thorne Hall, November – December 1.
1967
Santa Barbara, California, Esther Bear Gallery, Paintings, Prints and Sculpture by Ynez Johnston, January 22 – February 17.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, The Graphic Work of Ynez Johnston, March 16 – April 16.
Muncie, Indiana, Ball State University, Summer.
Los Angeles, California, Adele Bednarz Gallery, December 10, 1967 – January 5, 1968.
California State College, Long Beach, CA
1968
San Francisco, California, Moore Gallery, February – March 25.
Los Angeles, California, Adele Bednarz Gallery, September.
1969
Chicago, Illinois, Benjamin Galleries, May – June 14.
1970
Los Angeles, California, Adele Bednarz Gallery, Ynez Johnston, March 9 – April 1.
1971
Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972
Los Angeles, California, Jodi Scully Gallery, February 6 – March 4.
Tokyo Shoten Gallery, New York, NY
1973
San Francisco, California, Graphics Gallery, One Embarcadero Center, July 2 – July 28.
Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974
Los Angeles, California, Jodi Scully Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Recent Work, January 13 – 31.
Walnut, California, Mount San Antonio College Art Gallery, Ynez Johnston, November 26 – December 19.
Tokyo Shoten Gallery, New York, NY
1976
Los Angeles, California, Jodi Scully Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Recent Work, March 27 – April 30.
New York, New York, Tokyo Shoten Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Recent Paintings, November 6 – December 4.
Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977
Los Angeles, California, Jodi Scully Gallery, Ynez Johnston: New Paintings, January – February 12.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, World Print Competition 77: An International Exhibition of Prints, January 14 – March 13.
Tokyo, Japan, Mitsukoshi Gallery, Masters of Contemporary American Printmaking: Ynez Johnston: A Memorable Journey, August 16 – August 21.
New York, New York, Wiener Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Selected Works 1950 – 1977, November 1 – 21.
Worthington Gallery, Chicago, IL
1978
Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Iliados, May – July 16.
Los Angeles, California, Mekler Gallery, Ynez Johnston, October 15 – November 11.
1979
Cypress, California, Cypress College, Ynez Johnston: Selected Works 1950 – 1977, March 26 – April 27.=
New York, New York, Ericson Gallery, October 2 – October 23.
Worthington Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980
Chicago, Illinois, Worthington Gallery, Collages and Prints by Ynez Johnston, July – August 11.
1981
Los Angeles, California, Mekler Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Recent Work, January 6 – 31.
Tomlyn Gallery, Tequesta, FL
1982
Los Angeles, California, Mekler Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Recent Work, October 3 – November 3.
San Diego, California, San Diego Print Club, November.
Fullerton, California, Fullerton College, Ynez Johnston: Artist in Residence, closed November 18.
1983
Chicago, Illinois, Worthington Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Paintings, Sculpture, Prints, September 13 – October 15.
1984
Laguna Beach, California, Laguna Beach School of Art, Ettinger Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Recent Work, August 9 – September 6.
Los Angeles, California, Mekler Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Recent Paintings, October 21 – November 24.
1985
San Francisco, California, Hank Baum Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Recent Work, September 2 – November 1.
1986
Chicago, Illinois, Worthington Gallery, Ynez Johnston: New Paintings, Collages, Color Etchings – Sculptures, February 14 – March 15.
1987
Los Angeles, California, Mekler Gallery, Recent Works by Ynez Johnston, March 22 – April 25.
1988
Chicago, Illinois, Worthington Gallery, New Paintings and Bronze Sculptures, March 18 – April 20.
1989
Los Angeles, California, Mekler Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Recent Paintings & Sculpture, April 23 – June 17.
1990
Tomlyn Gallery, Tequesta, FL
1991
Tomlyn Gallery, Tequesta, FL
1992
Fresno, California, Fresno Art Museum, Ynez Johnston: Retrospective, June 5 – August 16.
Tomlyn Gallery, Tequesta, FL
1993
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, Ynez Johnston, February.
1994
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, Ynez Johnston Retrospective, January.
Los Angeles, California, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Etchings and Woodcuts, 1940 – 1980s, April 17 – May 28.
Santa Monica, California, Tortue Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Recent Paintings and Sculptures in Collaboration with John Berry, April 23 – June 4.
Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield Art Museum, Ynez Johnston, June 17 – July 31.
1996
Santa Monica, California, Tortue Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Recent Paintings and Sculptures in Collaboration with John Berry, September 21 – November 2.
1997
Athens, Ohio, University, Kennedy Museum of American Art, Ynez Johnston: A Retrospective,February 7 – April 18; New London, Connecticut, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, July – August 15.
Santa Cruz, California, Museum of Art and History, Ynez Johnston: Enchanted Cosmos, December 20, 1997 – March 29, 1998.
1998
Los Angeles, California, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Ynez Johnston: An Overview: 1940s to 1990s, May 9 – June 30.
Tequesta, Florida, Lighthouse Gallery, June – July 18.
New York, New York, Schmidt Bingham Gallery, Ynez Johnston, June 3 – July 10.
1999
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Paintings, Watercolors, Ceramics, Sculptures, February 4 – March 1.
2001
New York, New York, Schmidt Bingham Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Recent Paintings and Ceramics, November 21 – December 21.
2003
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, Paintings, Ceramics and Sculpture by Ynez Johnston, March 12 – April 10.
Los Angeles, California, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Ynez Johnston: A 55 Year Retrospective, September 18 – November 15.
2004
Pasadena, California, Norton Simon Museum, The Magical Worlds of Ynez Johnston, April 2 – September 6.
2005
Stuart, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, Ynez Johnston, February.
Pleasanton, California, Worthington Gallery West, July 1 – August 27.
Chicago, Illinois, Worthington Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Retrospective, September.
Los Angeles, California, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, December 17, 2005 – February 18, 2006.
2008
Los Angeles, California, Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary, Ynez Johnston: Paintings, Prints, Sculpture, March 15 – April 12.
2009
Fresno, California, Fresno Art Museum, Mythic Fragments/Mysterious Journeys: The Visionary Art of Ynez Johnston, May 29 – August 16.
2011
San Diego, California, Mingei International Museum, A Fantastic Voyage: The Art of Ynez Johnston, December 18, 2011 – June 17, 2012.
2012
Fresno, California, Fresno Art Museum, Ynez Johnston: From the Museum’s Permanent Collection, May 31 – September 2.
2013
New York, New York, David Findlay Jr. Gallery, Ynez Johnston: Voyages, November 3 – 24, 2012.
2021
Sonoma, California, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art,Sacred Landscapes: The Art of Ynez Johnston, June 12 – September 5.
Selected Group Exhibitions
1941
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Sixty-First Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association – Oil, Tempera on Panel, Sculpture, September 11 – October 5.
1942
62nd Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, October 15 – November 8.
1943
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, January.
1945
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Ninth Annual Watercolor Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, May 15 – June 10.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Sixty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association: Oil, Tempera and Sculpture, November 1 – 25.
1946
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Tenth Annual Watercolor Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, April 17 – May 5, 1946.
Berkeley, California, University of California, Berkeley, Delta Epsilon (art honors society), October – November 2.
1947
San Francisco, California, De Young Museum, San Francisco Art Association Open Exhibition of Members’ Works, October – November 4.
1948
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Twelfth Annual Watercolor Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, October 20 – November 14.
1949
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, 68th Annual Oil, Tempera and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, February 24 – March 20.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Thirteenth Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, June 10 – July 10.
Los Angeles, California, American Contemporary Gallery, First Summer Annual, June 27 – August.
Los Angeles, California, Art Center School, August 15 – 26.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, California Centennial Exhibition of Art, September 30 – November 13.
1950
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, 69th Annual Exhibition, February.
Los Angeles, California, Forsyte Gallery, Five Artists in Black and White, March – March 31.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Fourteenth Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, May 24 – June 18.
Berkeley, California, Studio Art Gallery, June – July.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, Annual Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity Art Exhibition, opened June 30.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints by Bay Region Artists, closed July 2.
Sacramento, California, California State Fair Art Exhibition, August 31 – September 10.
Ontario, California, Chaffey Community Art Association, 10th Annual Purchase Prize Exhibit, October 22 – 29.
New York, New York, Museum of Modern Art New Talent Exhibition in the Penthouse: Bunce, Johnston, and Mundt, November 28, 1950 – January 14, 1951.
San Francisco, California, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Festival, December 1 – 3.
1951
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, 70th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture of the San Francisco Art Association, February 28 – April 8.
San Francisco, California, Rotunda Gallery, City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Exhibition of Watercolors by Ynez Johnston, George Post and James Vance, March – April.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Philbrook Art Center, Contemporary American Painting, Philbrook Art Center, April.
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, March 17 – May 6.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, 15th Annual Exhibition of Drawings and Prints of the San Francisco Art Association, April 12 – May 6.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Phelan Awards Competition in Graphic Arts, May 1 – May 27.
Ojai, California, Ojai Community Art Center, Huntington Hartford Foundation fellow exhibition, closed May 30.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, annual exhibition, June.
New York, New York, Museum of Modern Art, Some American Prints, 1945 – 1950, Recent Additions to the Museum Collection, July 3 – September 13.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, Five Southern California Artists, August.
Sacramento, California, California State Fair Art Exhibition, August 30 – September 9.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Exhibition of Current American Prints, October 18 – December 9.
Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Art Association, Texas Wildcat Art Show, opened November 1 – 10.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Art Association, Some Top Flight Artists of Southern California, closed December 11.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, 15th Annual Watercolor Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, November 15 – December 9.
Los Angeles, California, Painter and the Child, December 1 – 2.
1952
San Francisco, California, Gump’s Gallery, Leon Goldin: Paintings and Lithographs / Ynez Johnston: Etchings and Water Colors, January 2 – 31.
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Texas Wildcats, organized by the Fort Worth Art Association, January 7 – 27. Traveled to San Francisco, California, San Francisco Art Museum, July 8 – August 3.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, 71st Annual Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture of the San Francisco Art Association, February 21 – March 23.
Miami, Florida, Dinner Key Auditorium, Terry National Art Exhibition, February 24 – March 4.
Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Contemporary American Painting, March 2 – April 13.
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, March 13 – May 4.
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Painting for Young Collections, April 6 – 27. Traveled to Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Fort Worth Public Library, January 3 – 16.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, 16th Annual Drawing & Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, May 8 – June 1.
Saint Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum, Recent Accessions (gallery display), June.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, Annual Exhibition: Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, June 29 – August 10.
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Survey of American Watercolors, August 6 – September 28.
Pomona, California, Los Angeles County Fair, Clay, September 12 – 28.
Oakland, California, Oakland Exposition Building, Pacific Art Festival, October 1 – 5.
Long Beach, California, Municipal Art Center, October – November 29.
Rome, Italy, Art show for foreign artists, November.
New York, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Water Colors, Drawings, and Prints 1952: A National Competitive Exhibition, December 5, 1952 – January 25, 1953.
Los Angeles, California, University of California, Los Angeles, Fine Arts Department, Third Biennial Exhibition of Graphic Arts, December 8, 1952 – January 17, 1953.
1953
Urbana, Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, March 1 – April 12.
Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Nebraska Art Association Sixty-Third Annual Exhibition, March.
Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Artists West of the Mississippi, 14thBiennial Invitational Exhibition, March 8 – April 28.
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, April 9 – May 29.
Sacramento, California, California State Fair Art Exhibition, Artists in Your Life, September.
Los Angeles, California, Paul Kantor Gallery, closed September 12.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum Art Rental Gallery, October 29 – November 13.
Los Angeles, California, Paul Kantor Gallery, December 1953 – January 3, 1954.
New York, New York, Museum of Modern Art, Young American Printmakers, November 25, 1953 – January 31, 1954.
1954
Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico, Jonson Art Gallery, opened February 2.
San Antonio, Texas, Witte Museum, Avant Garde Women Artists, February.
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, March 17 – April 18
Los Angeles, California, University of Southern California Art Building, Upstairs Gallery Third National Print Show, closed May 14. Traveled to Beverly Hills, California, W. and J. Sloane, June 1 – 30.
Waltham, Massachusetts, Brandeis University, Young America: Artists Under Forty, June 6 – 20.
Oakland, California, Oakland Art Museum, California artists exhibition, June.
St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum, Watercolors and Drawings frtom the Collection of Morton D. May, June 1 – July 31.
Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, New Accessions USA, July 1 – September 4.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, 18th Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, July 8 – August 1.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, 18th Annual Watercolor Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, September 30 – October 24.
San Francisco, California, Legion of Honor, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, October.
San Diego, California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 34th National Exhibition of the California Water Color Society, October 30 – November 30. Traveled to Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, January 14 – February 13, 1955; Walnut, California, Mount San Antonio College Library Gallery, February 28 – March 15; San Francisco, California, De Young Museum, April – May 2, 1955; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, Rental Gallery, closed May 29; Richmond, California, Richmond Art Center, June – July 9; Sacramento, California, Crocker Art Gallery, July 30 – September, 1955.
Los Angeles, California, City Hall Tower Gallery, Christmas Art Show, December 1954 – January 7, 1955.
Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Rental Gallery Exhibition, December 1 – 12.
1955
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, January 12 – February 20.
Los Angeles, California, County Art Institute, Southern California Printmakers, January 24 – February 28.
Urbana, Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Champaign, University of Illinois, Urbana, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, February 27 – April 3.
Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Art Gallery, Italy Rediscovered: An Exhibition of Work by American Painters in Italy Since World War II, March 6 – 27. Traveled to Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson Gallery of Art, October 9 – 26; Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta Public Library Fine Arts Gallery, November 9 – 30; Louisville, Kentucky, Speed Art Museum, December 1955 – January 3, 1956; Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, February 19 – March 11; Boston, Massachusetts, Institute of Contemporary Art, May – June 7, 1956.
Greensboro, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Woman’s College, Weatherspoon Gallery Association, Elliott Hall, April 18 – May 7.
Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Ninth National Print Annual Exhibition, April 27 – June 26. Traveled to Louisville, Kentucky, Speed Art Museum, October; St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum, March 18 – April 10, 1956; Santa Monica, California, closed May 23.
Logan, Utah, Utah State College, Are Titles Necessary?, May.
Los Angeles, California, Paul Kantor Gallery, May 29.
São Paulo, Brazil, Museu de Arte Moderna, Pacific Coast Art – United States Representation, Third São Paulo Art Biennial, July 2 – October 12. United States section organized by San Francisco Museum of Art. Traveled to San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, May 14 – July 15, 1956; Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, August 15 – September 17, 1956; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center, October 4 – November 4 1956; Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, December 4, 1956 – January 20, 1957; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, February 12 – March 13, 1957; Boston, Massachusetts, Institute of Contemporary Art, March 9 – 31, 1957; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, May 1 – June 1, 1957.
Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, First Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition, September 20 – November 6; traveled to San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, November 19, 1955 – January 2, 1956.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, The 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, October 13 – December 18.
Long Beach, California, Municipal Art Center, 35th National Exhibition of the California Water Color Society, November – December 4. Traveled to San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, January 14 – February 12, 1956.
Salt Lake City, Utah, University of Utah College of Fine Art, Second Annual Invitation Exhibit, November.
St. Louis, Missouri, Washington University in St. Louis, Givens Gallery, Washington University International Invitational Print Exhibition, November 2 – 23.
Sierra Madre, California, Sierra Madre Library, Purchase Prize Award Exhibition, opened November 4.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Annuals, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1956
Ottawa, Canada, National Gallery of Ottawa, Canadian Society of Painters in Water Color and California Water Color Society Joint Exhibition, September. Exchange exhibition. Traveled to Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Willistead Art Gallery, closed January 29, 1956. Traveled to Columbus, Georgia, Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, opened June 16, 1957.
Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois, Urbana, Annual Festival of the Arts, 50 Contemporary American Printmakers, March. Traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee, University of Tennessee Audigier Gallery, as American Printmakers, October 6 – 31; traveled to Rock Island, Illinois, Augustana College, May 5 – 26, 1957; traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, Parthenon, November.
Lansing, Michigan, Michigan State University, Union Building art gallery, March 23 – April 17.
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, April 18 – June 10.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, Annual Exhibition: Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, May 1 – June 6.
Sacramento, California, Sacramento Junior College, Little Gallery, Library Building, May.
Long Beach, California, Municipal Art Center, California Painting: 40 Painters, June 5 –26. Organized with the San Francisco Museum of Art and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. As California Painting: Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta Public Library, July 10 – 31; Terre Haute, Indiana, Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana State Teachers College, October 2 – 22; Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina State College, November 4 – 25; Sarasota, Florida, Sarasota Art Association, December 9, 1956 – January 3, 1957; Louisville, Kentucky, Speed Art Museum, January 17 – February 10, 1957; Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Museum of Art, April 1 – 22, 1957; Exeter, New Hampshire, Lamont Art Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, May 5 – 26, 1957; Charles, Illinois, Paul Sargent Gallery, Booth Library, Eastern Illinois State College, June 13 – 30; Logan, Utah, Utah State Student Union, September 1 – 22, 1957; Salt Lake City, Utah, University of Utah, October 6 – November 1, 1957; Vancouver, Canada, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, November 10 – December 1, 1957.
Los Angeles, California, Paul Kantor Gallery, summer exhibition, June 10 – September 1.
Pomona, California, Los Angeles County Fair, National Art Competition, September 14 – 30.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, 36th Annual Exhibition of the California Water Color Society, September 30 – December 2. Traveled to Oakland, California, Oakland Museum, January 5 – February 3, 1957.
Los Angeles, California, Paul Kantor Gallery, December 1956 – January 5, 1957.
1957
Claremont, California, Pomona College, Rembrandt Hall, California Drawings, January 3 – 25. Traveled to Riverside, California, University of California, Riverside, February; Long Beach, California, Long Beach Museum of Art, August 7 – September 25; Oakland, California, Mills College Art Gallery, November 2 – December 11; Arcata, California, Humboldt State College, January 6 – 24, 1958; San Jose, California, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, May.
Claremont, California, Scripps College Art Galleries, Mosaic Exhibition, January 16 – February 14.
Wichita, Kansas, Wichita Art Museum, West Coast artist exhibition, closed February 3.
Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Nebraska Art Association Sixty-Seventh Annual Exhibition, February 24 – March 24.
Tucson, Arizona, Tucson Fine Arts Association, Pacific Coast painting exhibition, February 25 – March 17.
Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Hammett Gallery No. 2 Inaugural Exhibition, opened February 26.
Urbana, Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, March 3 – April 7.
St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum, contemporary works from Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May, April.
San Francisco, California, De Young Museum, April.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, Annual Exhibition: Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, May 21 – June 30.
Sacramento, California, California State Fair and Exposition Art Show, August 28 – September 28.
Los Angeles, California, Paul Kantor Gallery, closed September 7.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico, Jonson Gallery, October 6 – November 2.
New York, New York, Alan Gallery, exhibition organized by Paul Kantor Gallery, October.
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, 37th Annual Exhibition of the California Watercolor Society, December – December 29. Traveled to Richmond, California, Richmond Art Center, January 10 – February 11, 1957.
1958
Long Beach, California, Long Beach Museum of Art, Arts of Southern California – II: Painting, January 5 – February 2.
Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois, Urbana, 3rd Biennial Exhibition of Recent American Prints, February 16 – March 16.
Los Angeles, California, Mount St. Mary’s College, Marian Hall of Fine Arts, Third Annual Exhibition of Southland Artists, opened March 9.
New York, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Eleventh National Print Exhibition, April 15 – June 29. Traveled to St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum, September 3 – 29; Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Museum of Art, November 1 – 30; Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, December 1958 – January 4, 1959; Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Cedar Rapids Public Library, Cedar Rapids Art Association Gallery, closed October 23, 1959; Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, February 21 – March 14, 1960; Pensacola, Florida, Pensacola Art Center, opened June 15, 1960.
Tarzana, California, Brown Center Patio, Valley Center of Arts Show 2, May 26 – 27 and June 2 and 3.
Stockton, California, Pioneer Museum and Haggin Galleries, drawings by California artists exhibition, June.
Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Center, Watercolors from the Permanent Collection, August.
Sacramento, California, California State Fair and Exposition Art Show, August 27 – September 7.
Los Angeles, California, Municipal Art Gallery, Artists in Transition, October 23 – November 16.
Sherman Oaks, California, Annual Art Festival, October 5.
Long Beach, California, Long Beach Museum of Art, 38th Annual Exhibition of the California Water Color Society, June – July 6. Traveled to Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, November – December 12; San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, January 24 – March 1, 1959.
Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis Academy of Arts, International Graphic Arts Society exhibition, November.
1959
Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art, Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880 – 1958, Representing His Achievements During Fifty Years of Service in American Museums, April 6 – May 17.
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, James D. Phelan Art Awards Exhibition, April 14 – May 17.
New Canaan, Connecticut, Celanese House showcase, The American Idea, May 15 – July. 1 Reproduced for display in New York, New York, W&J Sloane’s Inc., September 18 – December 7.
Los Angeles, California, Westside Jewish Center, closed July 19.
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, A Decade in the Contemporary Galleries, 1949 – 1959, July 19 – September 13.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, Annual Exhibition: Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, August 4 – September 6.
Los Angeles, California, Westside Jewish Center, September 27 – October 23.
Beverly Hills, California, California Democratic Council of Los Angeles Art Festival, October 17 and 18.
Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Graphics for Young Collectors, December 1 – 20.
1960
Santa Barbara, California, University of California, Santa Barbara Art Gallery, Donald and Esther Bear Collection, February.
Los Angeles, California, University of California, Los Angeles, Art Gallery, 50 Paintings by 37 Painters of the Los Angeles Area, closed April 10. Traveled to San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, August 16 – September 25.
Hackettstown, New Jersey, Centenary College for Women, Fine Arts Week, May 8 – 14.
Caldwell, Idaho, College of Idaho, Annual Art Open House, exhibition of prints from the permanent collection, opened May 15.
1961
Chicago, Illinois, Superior Street Gallery, hallway display during Bruniori/Bob Thompson exhibition, February.
Claremont, California, Pomona College, Pomona College Art Galleries, The Objectmakers, February 15 – March 26.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, Annual Exhibition: Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, August 30 – October 1.
La Jolla, California, La Jolla Art Center, Second La Jolla Art Center Annual, October 29 – December 10.
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, 41st Annual Exhibition of the California Water Color Society, November 21 – December 31. Traveled to San Francisco, California, De Young Museum, opened January 22, 1962; La Jolla, California, La Jolla Art Center, March 1962.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Selections by SECA, November 9 – November 26.
1962
San Bernardino, California, National Orange Show, All-California Art Exhibition, March 15 – 25.
San Francisco, Eric Locke Galleries, prints exhibition, April.
Sacramento, California, California State Fair, August.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, American Prints Today—1962, September 20 – October 15. Three showings of eight identical sets of prints. First showing, September 20 – October 15, 1962: Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum; New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco, California, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art. Second showing, November 6 – December 30, 1962: Albany, New York, Albany Institute of History and Art; Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; Flint, Michigan, Flint Institute of Arts; Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art; Sarasota, Florida, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Third showing, January 15 – February 15, 1963: Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art; Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum; Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Louisville, Kentucky, J.B. Speed Art Museum; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Institute; St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum.
Seal Beach, California, International Gifts gallery, September.
San Diego, California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Pacific Coast Invitational, November 1 – November 25, 1962; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, November 30 – December 30, 1962; Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January 8 – February 3, 1963; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, March 4 – April 7, 1963; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, April 17 – May 19, 1963; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, May 23 – June 23, 1963.
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, The Artist’s Environment: West Coast,November 6 – December 23; traveled to Los Angeles, California, University of California, Los Angeles, Art Galleries; January 1 – February 1, 1963; Oakland, California, Oakland Art Museum, March 1 – April 1, 1963.
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, Director’s Choice Exhibition, December 4 – 30.
Traveling Exhibition of Graphic Art, Japan
1963
Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona, University of Arizona Art Gallery, Edward Joseph Gallagher Memorial Collection, opened January 9.
Flagstaff, Arizona, Arizona State College, Technology and Applied Arts Center, Creative Arts Festival, Gallagher Collection, February 3 – April 4.
Los Angeles, California, Otis Art Institute, Second National Invitational Print Exhibition, closed February 24.
Tempe, Arizona, Arizona State University, Travel Show Selections from the Forty-First National Exhibition of the California Water Color Society, March – April 2.
Urbana, Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana Krannert Art Museum, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, March 3 – April 7.
Madrid, Spain, Palacios de Cristal and Velázquez, Parque del Retiro, Arte de América y España (Art of the Americas and Spain), May 18 – June. Presented by the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica. Traveled to Barcelona, Spain, Palau de la Virreina and Antiguo Hospital de la Santa Cruz, August 1 – September.
Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum, 69th Annual for Western Artists, Denver July 9 – September 2.
Pomona, California, Los Angeles County Fair, Fine Arts Show, September 13 – 29.
Washington, D.C., I.F.A. Galleries, Four Moderns, October.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Printmaking Society Gallery, Inaugural All-Member Exhibition, opened October 20.
Fullerton, California, Fullerton Junior College Fine Arts Gallery, November 18 – December 13.
1964
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Printmaking Society Gallery, Intaglio: 35 by 17, opened January 5.
Laguna Beach, California, Laguna Beach Art Association, Art Gallery Tea hosted by the Laguna Beach Democratic Women’s Club, February.
Cedar Falls, Iowa, L’Atelier Gallery, Exhibition of Small Paintings, March.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma Printmakers Society’s Sixth National Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, April 12 – May 10.
Durham, North Carolina, Duke University, East Campus Gallery and Alumni Lounge Gallery,International Graphic Arts Society exhibition, May.
Los Angeles, California, Mount St. Mary’s College Fine Arts Gallery, Twentieth Century Printmakers: Old and New, May 11 – 29.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Printmaking Society Gallery, First All California Print Exhibition, May 17 – June 11. Traveled to Costa Mesa, Orange Coast College, OCC Art Gallery, December 2 – 18.
Tokyo, Japan, American Embassy, Summer 1964 – Spring 1966.
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, Imprint, October – November 6.
1965
Ross, California, Marin Society of Artists and Francis Young Gallery, Marin Art and Garden Center, closed June 20.
El Paso, Texas, El Paso Museum of Art, recent acquisitions, November.
Redondo Beach, California, First Annual Redondo Beach Art Festival, November.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery, Assemblages 2 & 3, November 18 – December 15.
1966
New York, New York, Brooklyn Museum, 15th National Print Exhibition, January 31 – May 29.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Valley College Art Building, Twelve Major Printmakers, USA, March 28 – April 28.
Seal Beach, California, Gallery Carnot, May 22 – June 11.
Newport Beach, California, Balboa Pavilion, Some Continuing Directions, selected by Mr. And Mrs. Gifford Phillips and presented by the Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor, November 9 – December 4.
Seal Beach, California, Gallery Carnot, pre-Christmas exhibit and sale, opened December 4.
1967
Orange, California, Chapman College, February – March 16.
San Bernardino, California, National Orange Show, Selected Paintings from the California State Fair’s Permanent Art Collection, March 9 – 19.
Long Beach, California, Long Beach Museum of Art, Fifth Annual Southern California Exhibition, March 5 – April 2.
Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Art Museum, The West—80 Contemporaries, March 19 – April 30.
Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art, American Paintings Since 1900 from the Permanent Collection, April 1 – 23.
Muncie, Indiana, Ball State University, new acquisitions, July.
Los Angeles, California, 15th Annual All-City Outdoor Art Festival, August.
Los Angeles, California, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, California Art Festival: California Art in U.S. Museums, October 1 – November 30. Traveled to Palo Alto, California, Lytton Center of Visual Arts, December 19, 1967 – January 19, 1968; Oakland, California, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, January 30 – February 29, 1968.
Tempe, Arizona, Arizona State University, Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, Gallery-Lounge, November.
Los Angeles, California, Crown Towers Gallery, The Selective Eye, opened October 1.
Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Print International, October 5 – 29.
La Jolla, California, La Jolla Museum of Art, Tamarind prints, November – December 17.
Sacramento, California, California Arts Commission, paintings from the State Fair permanent collection, opened December 15, 1967 – January 1968.
1968
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, January – February 4.
Los Angeles, California, Lytton Center of Visual Arts, Mini Things, January – closed February 16.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Harbor College, Paintings & Prints by Johnston and Edmondson, January 8 – February 16.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,163rd Annual Exhibition, January 19 – March 3.
DeKalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University, National Print and Drawing Exhibition, February – February 29.
Los Angeles, California, Lytton Center of Visual Arts, 25 California Women of Art, March 5 – April 27. Traveled to Palo Alto, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, as 24 California Women of Art, July 22 – September 10.
Long Beach, California, Sixth Annual Southern California Exhibition, April.
Downey, California, Downey Art Museum, 11th Art Unlimited, June 9 – July 21.
Sacramento, California, Exposition, State Fair Permanent Art Collection, July 31 – August 11.
Pasadena, California, California Institute of Technology, Tamarind exhibition, Dabney Hall of the Humanities, November 4 – 8.
Pleasant Hill, California, Pleasant Hill Library, Third Annual Autumn Art Invitational Showing, October 14 – November 2.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, The Scope of Lithography: Tamarind Lithography Workshop 1960 – 68, December 19, 1968 – January 22, 1969.
Florence, Italy, Unione Fiorentina, Palazzo Strozzi, Mostra Internazionale della Grafica, December 21,1968 – January 30, 1969.
1969
Long Beach, California, Long Beach Museum of Art, Microcosm ’69, January 12 – February 9. Traveled to Redlands, California, University of Redlands, Peppers Art Center Gallery, March – April 3; Caldwell, Idaho, September 11 – October 3; Bloomington, Illinois, Illinois State University, Centennial Building West gallery, opened November 9; McMinnville, Oregon, Linfield College, Crenshaw Hall Gallery, April 3 – 23.
Pasadena, California, California Institute of Technology, Four Printmakers, February 7 – 27.
Sacramento, California, Expo Center, State Fair, August – September 8.
Walnut Creek, California, Walnut Creek Library, Valley Art Center, September – October. 3
Small Images, California State College, Los Angeles, CA
1970
Walnut, California, Mount San Antonio College, Art Gallery, Selections From the Home Savings & Loan Ahmanson Collection, January 14 – February 3.
Los Angeles, California, Adele Bednarz Gallery, Art on Paper, February – March 2.
Santa Cruz, California, University of California, Santa Cruz, California Painters of the Fifties, March.
Los Angeles, California, assorted galleries on Melrose Place, Ventura Boulevard, and La Cienega Boulevard, Linus Pauling Peace Prize competition, September 27 – October 2.
Lexington, Kentucky, University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Graphics ’71, West Coast, USA, November 29 – December 20. Traveled to Paducah, Kentucky, Paducah Art Guild Gallery, January 3 – 30, 1971; State College, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, Hetzel Union Building gallery, closed August 27, 1971; Decatur, Illinois, Millikin University, Kirkland Fine Art Center Gallery, November 7 – December 5, 1971; Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Dickinson College, Holland Union gallery, February – March 11, 1972; Amarillo, Texas, Amarillo Art Center, July – August 13, 1972; Costa Mesa, California, Orange Coast College Library, August 31 – September 30, 1972; Gorham, Maine, University of Maine at Portland-Gorham, Art Gallery, February – February 28, 1973.
Los Angeles, California, Jodi Scully Gallery, Painted Porcelain by Adam Mekler and Ynez Johnston, December 13, 1970 – January 4, 1971. Extended to January 26, 1971.
Los Angeles, California, Adele Bednarz Gallery, Art on Paper, closed December 31.
1971
Cambria, California, Greystone Galleries, Ynez Johnston and Adam Mekler, Spring.
Houston, Texas, Rice Media Center, Rice University, Tamarind: A Renaissance of Lithography, September 1 – 30. Touring exhibition organized by the International Exhibitions Foundation. Traveled to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Arts, October 16 – November 15; Utica, New York, Museum of Art, Munson – Williams – Proctor Institute, December 5, 1971 – January 2, 1972; Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Art Museum, February – March 5, 1972; Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, April 18 – 30, 1972; Hanover, New Hampshire, Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, September – October 15, 1952; Spokane, Washington, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, December 17, 1972 – January 14, 1973; Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art, April – May 31, 1973; Orlando, Florida, Loch Haven Art Center, June – July 29, 1973; Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, October 4 – 30, 1973; Bowling Green, Kentucky, Western Kentucky University, Gallery of the Ivan Wilson Center for Fine Arts, October 15 – November 7, 1974; Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art, December 1, 1974 – January 5, 1975; New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Art Gallery, February 2 – March 8, 1975; St. Joseph, Missouri, Albrecht Art Museum, July 1 – August 31, 1975; Decatur, Illinois, Kirkland Fine Arts Center, October 1975.
Los Angeles, California, Jodi Scully Gallery, Ynez Johnston and Adam Mekler: Porcelains, December 12, 1971 – January 5, 1972.
1972
Los Angeles, California, KCET Studios, Auction ’72, May 6 – 13.
Claremont, California, Scripps College Lang Galleries, California Women Artists Show, November 17 – December 19.
1973
Santa Monica, California, Santa Monica City College Art Gallery, exhibition of eight local women artists, March – closed March 23.
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, The Betty and Monte Factor Family Collection, April 24 – June 3.
1974
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery, California Artists, March 18 – April 14.
Riverside, California, University of California, Riverside, 54 Prints by 15 West Coast Artists, April – May 11.
Los Angeles, California, Jodi Scully Gallery, November 17, 1974 – January 9, 1975.
Logan, Utah, Utah State University, Merrill Library Gallery, Sixth Annual Alliance for the Varied Arts Printmaking West Show, November 24 – December 10.
1975
New York, New York, Tchernov Galleries, Recent Works by Christos Caras, Anna Courbeti, Sergei Danilov, and Ynez Johnston, May 6 – June 4.
1976
Fullerton, California, California State University, Fullerton, California White Paper Painters, 1930s – 1970s, April 25 – May 20.
Springfield, Missouri, Springfield Art Museum, Watercolor U.S.A. National Invitational Exhibition, May 2 – July 4.
San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, American Artists ’76: A Celebration, May 23 – July 31.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, September 3 – November 21; traveled to Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, May 20 – September 11, 1977.
Laguna Beach, California, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, September – October 30.
Encino, California, Contemporary Art Forms Gallery, Harvest Month, October 10.
Los Angeles, California, Municipal Art Gallery, A Magical Mystery Tour, December 1, 1976 – January 2, 1977.
Los Angeles, California, Jodi Scully Gallery, December 12, 1976 – January 8, 1977.
Los Angeles, California, University of California, Los Angeles, Wight Gallery, Dorothy Brown: Artist, Teacher, and Collector, December 21, 1976 – January 16, 1977.
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1978
Laguna Beach, California, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, A Tribute to Henry Seldis (1925 – 1978), November 1 – December 18.
1979
New York, New York, Ericson Gallery, Drawings & Collages, February 3 – March 8.
New York, New York, Ericson Gallery, Four Contemporary California Artists, February 28 – April 8.
Chicago, Illinois, Worthington Gallery, Gallery Group Show, July – August 10.
Los Angeles, California, Mekler Gallery, Paintings and Sculpture by Gallery Artists, June – July 23. Extended through September 7.
New York, New York, Parsons Exhibition Center, Parsons Faculty Exhibition, closed November 3.
1980
Los Angeles, California, Security Pacific Plaza, Contemporaries: 17 Artists, January 28 – March 31.
Jupiter, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, Modern Art show, March.
Los Angeles, California, Mekler Gallery, Group Show, June 21 – August.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Prints, 1883 – 1980, Part I: 1883 – 1959, September 4 – November 30.
Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Lessons in Print Collecting, September 22 – November 1.
1981
Birmingham, Michigan, Little Gallery, Ynez Johnston and Noel Dynenforth show, May – June.
Chicago, Illinois, Worthington Gallery, New Acquisitions, June 5 – August 15.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Prints, 1883 – 1980, Part II: 1960 – 1980, June 25 – September 20.
Laguna Beach, California, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Southern California Artists: 1940 – 1980, July 24 – September 13.
Los Angeles, California, Mekler Gallery, Group Show, July – September 10.
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
1982
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Works by California Cookbook Artists, October 6 – November 11.
1983
Santa Fe, New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, The California Connection: Sixteen Paintings from the Gifford and Joann Phillips Collection, October 21, 1983 – February 19, 1984.
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, November 1983 – February 1984.
1984
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, 1st Annual Weekend of Art, February 11 – 12.
1985
Belmont, California, College of Notre Dame Gallery, Past Prescence / Contemporary Sources, April 14 – May 9.
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, 2nd Annual Weekend of Art, February 9 – 10.
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, December.
Taipei, Taiwan, Nan Gallery, Print Exhibition of Famous California Artists, December 20 – 31.
1986
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, September.
Fresno, California, Fresno Art Center, From the Collection, September 7, 1986 – August 7, 1987.
Fresno, California, Fresno Art Center and Museum, In the Advent of Change: 1945 – 1969, October 10 – December 28.
1987
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, October.
Los Angeles, California, University of California, Los Angeles, Wight Art Gallery, Visions of Inner Space: Gestural Painting in Modern American Art, December 15, 1987 – January 31, 1988; New Delhi, Indian, National Gallery of Modern Art, March 15 – April 3, 1988.
1988
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art Drawings from the Collection, March 1 – September 25
La Crosse, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, Fine Arts Building, prints exhibition, July.
Los Angeles, California, KCET Studios, Auction ’78, May 5 – 13.
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, May – August.
1989
El Paso, Texas, El Paso Museum of Art, Works from the Western Collection, opened January 7.
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, November – December.
1990
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, closed January 31.
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, A Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking, July 28 – September 23; traveled to Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, October 14 – December 2; Gainesville, Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, May 5 – June 30, 1991; Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, September 22 – November 17, 1991; Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, closed February 9.
Los Angeles, California, American Gallery, Functionists High, May 20 – June 17.
1991
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, Paintings and Sculpture by Ynez Johnston and Painted Collage Constructions by Robert Quijada, March.
Nagoya, Japan, Memory’s Gallery, Contemporary Art: California Window, June 3–28 and July 1–27.
Chico, California, Chico State University, Turner Print Gallery, Intaglio Printmaking, closed October 30.
1992
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, Ynez Johnston and Leonard Edmonson, January.
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, A Weekend of Art, February 14 – 16.
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, March.
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, Paintings by Dan Poole and Mixed Media Work by Inez [sic] Johnston, March – May.
1993
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, January – April.
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, December.
Los Angeles, California, Random Gallery, From Concept to Realism, closed December 18.
1994
Los Angeles, California, Gallery IV, Artist as Visionary: A Group Show Celebrating the New Year, February 6 – 25.
Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, Generation of Mentors, June 9 – August 21, 1994; Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA, September 13 – November 26, 1994; Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA, January 25 – April 8, 1995.
Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Washington Print Club Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition: Graphic Legacy, December 1, 1994 – February 5, 1995.
1995
Fresno, California, Fresno Art Museum, Fifteen Profiles: Distinguished California Modernists, November 7, 1995 – February 7, 1996.
Los Angeles, California, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Assemblage & Collage, November 11, 1995 – January 6, 1996.
1996
Fresno, California, Fresno Art Museum, Fragments, Substance, and Illusions, January 11 – February 7.
North Hollywood, California, Lankershim Arts Center Gallery, From the Crucible, November 14 – December 21.
1997
North Hollywood, California, Lankershim Arts Center Gallery, Exclusively Etchings, October 4 – November 8.
Los Angeles, California, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, California Modernism & Abstraction, November – December 27.
Pasadena, California, Armory Center for the Arts, Subliminal Fictions, November 9, 1997 – January 18, 1998.
1998
Los Angeles, California, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Faces, Forms and Figuration, July 8 – August 29.
Fresno, California, Fresno Art Museum, Fine Books from the Permanent Collection, May 8 – 10.
Santa Cruz, California, Museum of Art and History, Personal Choice: The Museum, the Staff, and the Permanent Collection, November 21, 1998 – February 2, 1999.
1999
Tequesta, Florida, Tomlyn Gallery, February.
Pasadena, California, Norton Simon Museum of Art, The Museum: Highlights from the Collection and Archives of the Pasadena Art Museum, February 7 – May 9, 1999. Part of the four-exhibition series Radical Past: Contemporary Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960 – 1974.
Los Angeles, California, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, The Hand of the Sculptor on Paper, July 14 – August 21.
2000
Macau, Provisional Municipal Council of Macau, Identity Transformation: A Collective Exhibition of Installations and Abstract Paintings, early 2000. Traveled to Whittier, California, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, October 1 – 26.
North Hollywood, California, Decker Studios, On the Wall: Reliefs in Bronze, June 23 – July 28.
North Hollywood, California, Decker Studios, Works by Ynez Johnston and Leonard Edmondson, August 26 – September 29.
2001
Jupiter, Florida, Patricia Cloutier Art Gallery, February.
Fresno, California, Fresno Art Museum, Modernism from the Permanent Collection of the Fresno Art Museum, May 15 – July 1.
Oceanside, California, Oceanside Museum of Art, Chouinard: A Living Legacy, July 7 – August 26.
Fresno, California, Fresno Art Museum, Modern Women: Contemporary Images from the Museum’s Collection, September 11 – November 16.
2002
Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs Art Museum, Humor as Art, June 8 – November 10.
2003
Los Angeles, California, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, The Art of the Woodblock, closed February 28.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Philbrook Museum of Art, The Abstract Impulse: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, February 23 – June 22.
Lawrence, Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, New Acquisitions (Fall 2003), October 15, 2003 – January 30, 2004.
2004
Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Lyrical Abstraction, March 27 – May 9.
Santa Ana, California, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Heroes and Heroines: Working Artists Over 70, February 5 – 29.
Tallahassee, Florida, Florida State University, Museum of Fine Arts, PACE for Girls Programming Exhibition, May 10 – June 4.
Tallahassee, Florida, Florida State University, Museum of Fine Arts, The Print, June 17 – August 13.
2005
Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University, Block Museum of Art, Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910 – 1960, September 23 – December 11. Organized by the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Traveled to San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, February 1 – April 2; Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, July 29, 2006 – January 7, 2007; Manhattan, Kansas, Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, October 21, 2007 – December 18, 2007; New York, New York, January 23 – March 8, 2008.
2006
Los Angeles, California, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Shifting Dimensions: Sculptors on Paper, June 29 – September 7.
Fresno, California, Fresno Art Museum, Eighteen Profiles: Distinguished Women Artists of California, Twenty-Year Survey Exhibition, 1986 – 2006, Fresno Art Museum Council of 100, September 5 – November 19.
Keene, New Hampshire, Keene State College, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Prints by Women: Selected European and American Works from the Georgia Museum of Art, September 22 – December 10, 2006; traveled to St. Joseph, Michigan, Krasl Art Center, November 27, 2008 – January 1, 2009; Jonesboro, Georgia, Arts Clayton, August – September 23, 2011; DeLand, Florida, Stetson University, Hand Art Center, January 20 – March 3, 2017; Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, Susquehanna University, Degenstein Gallery, January 27 – March 4, 2018; Corning, New York, The Rockwell Museum, January 31 – April 26, 2020.
2007
Fort Smith, Arkansas, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Mysterious Images: Contemporary Prints, January – February 23.
Santa Monica, California, Track 16 Gallery, Women Artists of Southern California: Then and Now, June 2 – 30.
Riverside, California, Riverside Art Museum, Los Angeles Printmaking Society 19th National Exhibition, September 15 – October 28.
Modern Art: Innovations in American Color Printmaking: 1895 – 1965, Selections from the Collection of Belverd and Marian Needles, Prints and Drawing Club of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2009
Pasadena, California, Norton Simon Museum, Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum (2002 – 2008), April 17 – August 31.
Los Angeles, California, Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art, 60s, July 11 – August 29.
2010
Lawrence, Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Conversation VII: Utopia/Dystopia, January 30 – May 23.
Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska, Sheldon Museum of Art, Better Half, Better Twelfth: Women Artists in the Collection, April 2, 2010 – July 15, 2011.
Valley Glen, California, Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery, Cultural Windows: The Art of Ruth Asawa, Ynez Johnston and Betye Saar, November 3 – December 16.
2011
Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art, The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection, January 30 – May 1.
Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, June 17 – October 2.
West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Gallery Selections, August 19 – September 17.
Los Angeles, California, National History Museum, Artistic Evolution: Southern California Artists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1945 – 1963, October 2, 2011 – January 15, 2012.
Pasadena, California, USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles: A History of the Pasadena Art Museum, November 18, 2011 – April 8, 2012.
2012
Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951 – 1969, February 11 – May 11.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, November 17, 2012 – April 7, 2013.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Abstract Drawings, June 14, 2012 – January 6, 2013.
Logan, Utah, Utah State University, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Female + Form, July 1, 2013 – March 14, 2014.
New York, New York, David Findlay Jr. Gallery, Steve Wheeler: The Oracle Visiting the 21st Century, December 1 – 21.
2013
Glendale, California, Forest Lawn Museum, LA Woman: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, September 2013 – January 5, 2014.
2014
Fresno, California, Fresno Art Museum, Art of the Word, January.
New York, New York, David Richard Gallery, Selections From June Wayne's Friends (The Robin Park Collection), February 8 – March 1.
Santa Rosa, California, Calabi Gallery, Postwar Modernism of the West 2014, November 8 – December 27.
2016
New York, New York, Debra Force Fine Art, American Abstraction of the Twentieth Century, March 2 – April 15.
2017
Sonoma, California, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Forge and Stone: Work by Contemporary California Women Sculptors, October 21, 2017 – January 7, 2018.
2018
Santa Barbara, California, Sullivan Goss—An American Gallery, L.A. in S.B. II: A Postwar & Contemporary Exhibition, July 5 – August 19.
2019
Davis, California, University of California, Davis, Manetti Shrem Museum Of Art, Landscape Without Boundaries: Selections From The Jan Shrem And Maria Manetti Shrem Museum Of Art, July 14 – December 15.
Berkeley, California, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive,Strange, August 21, 2019 – January 5, 2020.
2020
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Convention Center, Chouinard – 100 Years of L.A. Art, February 5 – 9 (exhibited during the 25th Los Angeles Art Show).
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California, Here She Stands: Women Artists from the Permanent Collection, July 2020 – January 9, 2022.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, LewAllen Galleries, Ynez Johnston & Leonard Edmondson, December 11, 2020 – February 16, 2021.
Logan, Utah, Utah State University, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction, August 25, 2020 – July 9, 2022.
2021
Southport, Connecticut, Hollis Taggart, Line, Shape, Color, and Form, November 6 – December 30.
2023
Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Art, Music & Feminism in the 1950s, January 23 – May 7.
New York, New York, Berry Campbell, West Coast Women of Abstract Expressionism, June 1 – July 1.
Geneva, New York, Dove Block Project, American Women Artists: Exhibition from the Collection of Edward T. Pollack ’55, June 3 – July 1.
2024
West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, A Survey Exhibition: Louis Stern Fine Arts Through the Decades, January 27 – March 9.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Art, The Art of the Bullfight, March 2 – August 4.