Junko Chodos
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Junko Chodos is a contemporary Japanese-American artist residing in the United States. Her works represent an unusually wide variety of techniques and styles, ranging from close, very detailed and painstaking work with pencil, pen, and collage, to more gestural works done with acrylic.
Her evolving artistic output reveals the influence of Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Mathis Grünewald, the Italian Futurists, and the master calligraphers of Japan. She has an appreciation of a number of the world’s great religions, including Buddhism
, Shinto
, Christianity
, and Judaism
, an awareness complemented by curiosity about technology, biology, and the natural environment.
Chodos has had solo exhibitions featured at the Tokyo Central Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Pasadena Pacific Asia Museum, and numerous other museums and galleries in Japan and in the United States.
. Early experience of the destructiveness of war would profoundly affect both her life and her art. She grew up in a household where both Buddhism and Christianity were strong influences. She was a member of the first post-war generation of "commoners" allowed to attend the Gakushuin
, the Imperial school.
Chodos pursued art from a young age and enrolled at Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University in 1963, where she majored in Eastern and Western art history and the philosophy of art. She also took an interest in the writings of German Jewish philosopher Martin Buber
and studied under Prof. Shigeo Ueda, noted translator of Buber into Japanese.
Chodos graduated in 1968 with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy. Her graduation thesis was titled: "Spirituality in Line: Interrelationship of Art and Religiosity."
Considered disrespectful, and forbidden to be an artist, Chodos left everything she knew and came to California ...calling herself a “spiritual refugee,”
In an article in the Winter 2003 issue of CrossCurrents, the Journal of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life, Chodos wrote:
In 1968 Chodos studied at the State University of New York, Buffalo. In 1971 she married lawyer and author Rafael Chodos, the son of a rabbi
.
In 1988, Chodos became naturalized U.S. citizen.
In 2002, Chodos published: "Metamorphoses: The Transformative Vision of Junko Chodos", a catalog of the one-person exhibition of the art of Junko Chodos at the Long Beach Museum of Art in the Fall of 2001. The book featured full-color high-quality reproductions, and five critical essays. The works included a range from the tiny collages inside CD jewel boxes, to the largest mylars included in her "Esoteric Buddhism" series. The book won `Best Art Book of the Year - First Prize from Independent Publishers in 2002.
In the late 1990s, Junko Chodos coined the term "Centripetal Art" to describe her style of art, which she defined as art created by an artist who strives towards her center and encounters divine presence there.
In 2005 the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Missouri presented 30-year retrospective of her work - "Junko Chodos: The Breath of Consciousness". The exhibition title references a recurrent image in her work, the lungs. In part originating in her personal history (a childhood battle with tuberculosis), this prevalent metaphor also takes on universal resonances, signaling the significance of breathing in the world's faith traditions-as a connection to life itself, and as a vehicle to practices of meditation, contemplation, and inner awareness.
The earliest works included in the exhibition are exquisitely complex drawings of roots and dead flowers that evince both microcosmic and macrocosmic scale: Chodos elicits worlds of complexity from mundane subjects, leading the viewer to notice anatomical, architectural and theological associations. Similarly, Chodos' collages combine a density of myriad elements in a barely held stasis. It is a dynamic of turbulence and repose, as details are resolved into larger systems: ribcages and lungs arise from images of engines and horseshoe crabs, layered with quotations from Renaissance paintings. The exhibition includes select works from the 1991 series, Requiem for an Executed Bird, a powerful body of work that delves into the horror of violence, using a bird as a transformational symbol of innocence that falls prey to injustice and cruelty, but ultimately achieves hope and resurrection. The survey is completed by large scroll-like paintings on mylar. These works reveal the influence of the strong gestures of the American Abstract Expressionists and the spare, concentrated aesthetic of the calligraphers of Chodos' native Japan.
Terrence E. Dempsey, S.J. the Director MOCRA wrote about Chodos' work:
In 2010, Chodos was honored by being named a Fellow of the Society for Art, Religion and Contemporary Culture.
http://www.chodos.com/centripetalart.nsf/vGNCNTByDocKey/PP7F86D6B22731/$FILE/Mandala_Full2.jpg
And for the detail from that image:
http://www.chodos.com/centripetalart.nsf/vGNCNTByDocKey/PP45FB82C83531/$FILE/Mandala_dtl2_big.jpg
More works can be seen at http://www.CentripetalArt.com on the Gallery Page
2008 Individuation Journal, No. 7 (1995)
Fresno Art Museum
2005 Giant Burls, No. 5 (1989)
Long Beach Museum of Art
1991 Burls Series, No. 18 (1988)
1994 Interplanetary Icon, No. 9 (1990)
1998 Celestial Curtain, No. 1 (1988)
Pacific Asia Museum (Pasadena, California):
1995 Dead Flower Series, No. 8 (1974)
2005 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California, 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, Junko Chodos: The Breath of Consciousness.
2003 Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, Requiem for an Executed Bird, at the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, through Feb. 15, 2004.
2002 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Junko Chodos: A Passionate Witness
2001 Long Beach Museum of Art, Metamorphoses: The Transformative Vision of Junko Chodos
1995 Pacific Asia Museum (Foyer Gallery), In the Forest of Amida Buddha, Pasadena, California
1992 L.A. Artcore Annex, Art, Mysticism and Psychology, Curated by Rafael Chodos. Los Angeles, California.
Space Gallery, Junko Chodos Painting, Los Angeles, California
1988 Frank Bustamante Gallery, Junko Chodos Recent Works on Paper, New York, New York. L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, California.
1984 Fujii Garo Art Salon, The Universe Moves and Humans Dance: Junko Chodos One-Person Show, Tokyo, Japan
1983 Studio Gallery 6, Laguna Beach, California
1979 Gallery Nakatsumi, Staring at Inner Light: Junko Chodos One-Person Show, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Central Museum, Staring at Inner Light; Junko Chodos One-Person Show, Tokyo, Japan
1973 Alibrandi Bottega of Art, First One-Person Show of the Artist Junko Chodos, Boston, Massachusetts
1997 Long Beach Museum of Art, Roadmaps: Structure, Process and the Collection, Long Beach, California
1996 Asian American Arts Center, "Passion and Compassion: Five Artists' Reflections on Buddhism", New York, New York
1995 Long Beach Museum of Art, Crossing Currents (Permanent Collection Show), Long Beach, California
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Invitational Art Auction, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.
SPACE Gallery, One Vision, Los Angeles, California.
1994 Long Beach Museum of Art, New Acquisitions Show, Long Beach, California
1993 Couturier Gallery, Present Art, Los Angeles, California
1992 Couturier Gallery, Present Art, Los Angeles, California.
Long Beach City College Gallery, The Sticking Place: Space and Image in Contemporary Collage, Curated by Peter Frank. Long Beach, California.
Olga Dollar Gallery, Collage/Assemblage, Curated by Edward Lau. San Francisco, California.
Long Beach Museum of Art, New Acquisitions, Long Beach, California.
1991 Fleck-Ellman Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1990 Space Gallery, Accretions, Collage and Assemblage, Los Angeles, California.
Gallery SHO, San Francisco, California.
Grand Canyon College, A.P. Tell Gallery, Expressions of Faith IV
Phoenix, Arizona.
1989 Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery, California Collagists Lancaster, California.
Grand Canyon College, A.P. Tell Gallery, Expressions of Faith III, Juried by Bruce D. Kurtz. Phoenix, Arizona.
1988 New York University, Twelfth Annual Small Works Competition, New York.
Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.
Grand Canyon College, A.P. Tell Gallery, Expressions of Faith II,Phoenix, Arizona.
1987 Art 54 Gallery, International Art Competition winner, New York.
Juried by Janet Salz.
1984 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California. Juried by Henry Hopkins. All California Winner.
1981 Galeria Artica, Cuxhaven, West Germany.
"Junko Chodos - The Sketchbooks" (2001), CD-ROM published by Giotto Multimedia [giottomultimedia.com].
"Requiem for an Executed Bird" (1999) - Interactive CD-ROM produced by Giotto Multimedia and designed by Aswan Karapetian.
"Junko Chodos: A Spiritual Artist for the New Renaissance Age" (1992), videotape produced and directed by William Barnett, c. 20 minutes.
"Junko Chodos: Art, Mysticism and Psychology" (1992) videotape produced and directed by Rafael Chodos, c. 18 minutes.
Cara Hopkins, "Junko Chodos: Spiritual Refugee", Colorado Daily, June 25, 2002
William Wilson, "Junko Chodos Finds a Way 'In the Forest'", Los Angeles Times, April 14, 1995.
Peter Frank, in "Art Pics of the Week", L.A. Weekly, May 12–18, 1995
Mac McCloud, "Stuff and Presence", Visions , Los Angeles, California, Summer 1993.
James Scarborough, "Junko Chodos," Visions, Los Angeles, California, December 1992., pp. 52–53.
Peter Frank, "Art Pick of The Week," LA Weekly, Los Angeles, California, October 23-October 29, 1992.
James D. Williams, et al., The Interdisciplinary Reader, pp. 621, 624; Harper Collins Publications (1992)
Noriko Gamblin, "Junko Chodos," Visions, Los Angeles, California, Summer 1991.
Bill Lasarow, "Junko Chodos," ArtScene, Los Angeles, California, February 1991.
Mac McCloud, "Junko Chodos and Roy Herweck at LA Artcore," Visions, Los Angeles, California, Winter 1990.
Suvan Geer, "Art Reviews," Los Angeles Times, Calendar section, July 13, 1990.
Suzanne Lummis, "Into the Mystic: Junko Chodos' Interplanetary Icons," Los Angeles Downtown News, July 9, 1990.
Suzanne Lummis, "Can We Trace the Common Threads Now Woven Into Women's Art?" Los Angeles Downtown News, April 9, 1990.
David Pagel, "Lifting the Curtain: Junko Chodos," Visions, Los Angeles, California, Fall 1988.
Cynthia H. Craft, "Century Gallery Showcases Art, the Environment," Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1998.
Bijutsu Techo, Japanese monthly art magazine, June 1988., “News from Abroad”
“Staring at the Light Beyond the Darkness”, Asahi Shimbun satellite edition, New York and Los Angeles, April 8, 1988
Amaury Saint-Gilles, "Art: People and Places," Mainichi Daily News, Tokyo, Japan, September 20, 1984.
"Junko Chodos One Person Show," Mainichi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan, September 20, 1984.
“The Globe of the Earth is the Canvas”, in People, Asahi Shimbun, September 6, 1984,
“Junko Chodos Collage”, Geijutsu Shincho, Japanese monthly art magazine, June 1980
"Junko Chodos' Show," Mainichi Shimbun, Osaka, Japan,
December 5, 1979.
"Rich, Dense Beauty," Kobe Shimbun, Osaka, Japan,
December 4, 1979.
"Exhibition: Junko Chodos' One-Person Show," Mainichi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan, November 1979.
"Finding Self in Encounter with Root: Japanese Woman Who Lives in America has One-Person Show," Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan, November 15, 1979.
"Staring at Inner Light: Finding the Universe in a root," Sekkai Nippo, Tokyo, Japan, November 17, 1979.
“It's The Way of the Devil”, Bob Garrett, Sunday Herald-Advertiser, Boston, Massachusetts, January 21, 1973
Her evolving artistic output reveals the influence of Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Mathis Grünewald, the Italian Futurists, and the master calligraphers of Japan. She has an appreciation of a number of the world’s great religions, including Buddhism
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
, Shinto
Shinto
or Shintoism, also kami-no-michi, is the indigenous spirituality of Japan and the Japanese people. It is a set of practices, to be carried out diligently, to establish a connection between present day Japan and its ancient past. Shinto practices were first recorded and codified in the written...
, Christianity
Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...
, and Judaism
Judaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
, an awareness complemented by curiosity about technology, biology, and the natural environment.
Chodos has had solo exhibitions featured at the Tokyo Central Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Pasadena Pacific Asia Museum, and numerous other museums and galleries in Japan and in the United States.
Life and career
Junko Chodos was born Junko Takahashi in Tokyo, Japan, in 1939. She grew up in a highly cultured and well-educated family amid the turbulence of World War IIWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. Early experience of the destructiveness of war would profoundly affect both her life and her art. She grew up in a household where both Buddhism and Christianity were strong influences. She was a member of the first post-war generation of "commoners" allowed to attend the Gakushuin
Gakushuin
The or Peers School is an educational institution founded in Tokyo in 1877, during the Meiji period, for the education of the children of the Japanese aristocracy, though it eventually also opened its doors to the offspring of extremely wealthy commoners...
, the Imperial school.
Chodos pursued art from a young age and enrolled at Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University in 1963, where she majored in Eastern and Western art history and the philosophy of art. She also took an interest in the writings of German Jewish philosopher Martin Buber
Martin Buber
Martin Buber was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship....
and studied under Prof. Shigeo Ueda, noted translator of Buber into Japanese.
Chodos graduated in 1968 with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy. Her graduation thesis was titled: "Spirituality in Line: Interrelationship of Art and Religiosity."
Considered disrespectful, and forbidden to be an artist, Chodos left everything she knew and came to California ...calling herself a “spiritual refugee,”
In an article in the Winter 2003 issue of CrossCurrents, the Journal of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life, Chodos wrote:
"To seek justice, to be courageous, to be ethical in other words, to choose rational universal standards over loyalty towards the group is to be a traitor in Japan, and these individuals break the biggest taboos of the totalitarian society. I experienced these aspects of Japanese society as a form of persecution and as a threat to my own integrity.That is why I left Japan and became a spiritual refugee."
In 1968 Chodos studied at the State University of New York, Buffalo. In 1971 she married lawyer and author Rafael Chodos, the son of a rabbi
Rabbi
In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...
.
In 1988, Chodos became naturalized U.S. citizen.
In 2002, Chodos published: "Metamorphoses: The Transformative Vision of Junko Chodos", a catalog of the one-person exhibition of the art of Junko Chodos at the Long Beach Museum of Art in the Fall of 2001. The book featured full-color high-quality reproductions, and five critical essays. The works included a range from the tiny collages inside CD jewel boxes, to the largest mylars included in her "Esoteric Buddhism" series. The book won `Best Art Book of the Year - First Prize from Independent Publishers in 2002.
In the late 1990s, Junko Chodos coined the term "Centripetal Art" to describe her style of art, which she defined as art created by an artist who strives towards her center and encounters divine presence there.
She has founded a new movement in art which goes beyond post-modernism.
She calls it "Centripetal art" and defines it as art which seeks the inner
center in order to encounter divine presence there. This new kind of art
was born out of her life-long spiritual journey and her enormous body of
work.
In 2005 the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Missouri presented 30-year retrospective of her work - "Junko Chodos: The Breath of Consciousness". The exhibition title references a recurrent image in her work, the lungs. In part originating in her personal history (a childhood battle with tuberculosis), this prevalent metaphor also takes on universal resonances, signaling the significance of breathing in the world's faith traditions-as a connection to life itself, and as a vehicle to practices of meditation, contemplation, and inner awareness.
The earliest works included in the exhibition are exquisitely complex drawings of roots and dead flowers that evince both microcosmic and macrocosmic scale: Chodos elicits worlds of complexity from mundane subjects, leading the viewer to notice anatomical, architectural and theological associations. Similarly, Chodos' collages combine a density of myriad elements in a barely held stasis. It is a dynamic of turbulence and repose, as details are resolved into larger systems: ribcages and lungs arise from images of engines and horseshoe crabs, layered with quotations from Renaissance paintings. The exhibition includes select works from the 1991 series, Requiem for an Executed Bird, a powerful body of work that delves into the horror of violence, using a bird as a transformational symbol of innocence that falls prey to injustice and cruelty, but ultimately achieves hope and resurrection. The survey is completed by large scroll-like paintings on mylar. These works reveal the influence of the strong gestures of the American Abstract Expressionists and the spare, concentrated aesthetic of the calligraphers of Chodos' native Japan.
Terrence E. Dempsey, S.J. the Director MOCRA wrote about Chodos' work:
" Junko Chodos stands out among today's artists for her unflinching look at life in its fullest sense. She embraces the sacred and the profane, uncovers beauty in ugliness, and maintains an openness to discovering hope and peace in a world of struggle and hardship.."
In 2010, Chodos was honored by being named a Fellow of the Society for Art, Religion and Contemporary Culture.
Works viewable Online (may be subject to copyright restrictions)
Mandala image:http://www.chodos.com/centripetalart.nsf/vGNCNTByDocKey/PP7F86D6B22731/$FILE/Mandala_Full2.jpg
And for the detail from that image:
http://www.chodos.com/centripetalart.nsf/vGNCNTByDocKey/PP45FB82C83531/$FILE/Mandala_dtl2_big.jpg
More works can be seen at http://www.CentripetalArt.com on the Gallery Page
Selected Public Collections
Central European University (Budapest)2008 Individuation Journal, No. 7 (1995)
Fresno Art Museum
2005 Giant Burls, No. 5 (1989)
Long Beach Museum of Art
1991 Burls Series, No. 18 (1988)
1994 Interplanetary Icon, No. 9 (1990)
1998 Celestial Curtain, No. 1 (1988)
Pacific Asia Museum (Pasadena, California):
1995 Dead Flower Series, No. 8 (1974)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006 FATHOM - collaboration with MalashockDance. Dance program based on the life of Kuukai, 9th Century Buddhist priest. Composer Ariel Blumenthal.2005 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California, 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, Junko Chodos: The Breath of Consciousness.
2003 Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, Requiem for an Executed Bird, at the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, through Feb. 15, 2004.
2002 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Junko Chodos: A Passionate Witness
2001 Long Beach Museum of Art, Metamorphoses: The Transformative Vision of Junko Chodos
1995 Pacific Asia Museum (Foyer Gallery), In the Forest of Amida Buddha, Pasadena, California
1992 L.A. Artcore Annex, Art, Mysticism and Psychology, Curated by Rafael Chodos. Los Angeles, California.
Space Gallery, Junko Chodos Painting, Los Angeles, California
1988 Frank Bustamante Gallery, Junko Chodos Recent Works on Paper, New York, New York. L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, California.
1984 Fujii Garo Art Salon, The Universe Moves and Humans Dance: Junko Chodos One-Person Show, Tokyo, Japan
1983 Studio Gallery 6, Laguna Beach, California
1979 Gallery Nakatsumi, Staring at Inner Light: Junko Chodos One-Person Show, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Central Museum, Staring at Inner Light; Junko Chodos One-Person Show, Tokyo, Japan
1973 Alibrandi Bottega of Art, First One-Person Show of the Artist Junko Chodos, Boston, Massachusetts
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 Fresno Art Museum, Eighteen Profiles: Distinguished Women Artists of California, Fresno, California1997 Long Beach Museum of Art, Roadmaps: Structure, Process and the Collection, Long Beach, California
1996 Asian American Arts Center, "Passion and Compassion: Five Artists' Reflections on Buddhism", New York, New York
1995 Long Beach Museum of Art, Crossing Currents (Permanent Collection Show), Long Beach, California
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Invitational Art Auction, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.
SPACE Gallery, One Vision, Los Angeles, California.
1994 Long Beach Museum of Art, New Acquisitions Show, Long Beach, California
1993 Couturier Gallery, Present Art, Los Angeles, California
1992 Couturier Gallery, Present Art, Los Angeles, California.
Long Beach City College Gallery, The Sticking Place: Space and Image in Contemporary Collage, Curated by Peter Frank. Long Beach, California.
Olga Dollar Gallery, Collage/Assemblage, Curated by Edward Lau. San Francisco, California.
Long Beach Museum of Art, New Acquisitions, Long Beach, California.
1991 Fleck-Ellman Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1990 Space Gallery, Accretions, Collage and Assemblage, Los Angeles, California.
Gallery SHO, San Francisco, California.
Grand Canyon College, A.P. Tell Gallery, Expressions of Faith IV
Phoenix, Arizona.
1989 Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery, California Collagists Lancaster, California.
Grand Canyon College, A.P. Tell Gallery, Expressions of Faith III, Juried by Bruce D. Kurtz. Phoenix, Arizona.
1988 New York University, Twelfth Annual Small Works Competition, New York.
Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.
Grand Canyon College, A.P. Tell Gallery, Expressions of Faith II,Phoenix, Arizona.
1987 Art 54 Gallery, International Art Competition winner, New York.
Juried by Janet Salz.
1984 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California. Juried by Henry Hopkins. All California Winner.
1981 Galeria Artica, Cuxhaven, West Germany.
Other media
"Cry of Ecstasy" - A Film by Robert Primes. Malcolm Goldstein Responds to the Art of Junko Chodos (DVD released 2005)"Junko Chodos - The Sketchbooks" (2001), CD-ROM published by Giotto Multimedia [giottomultimedia.com].
"Requiem for an Executed Bird" (1999) - Interactive CD-ROM produced by Giotto Multimedia and designed by Aswan Karapetian.
"Junko Chodos: A Spiritual Artist for the New Renaissance Age" (1992), videotape produced and directed by William Barnett, c. 20 minutes.
"Junko Chodos: Art, Mysticism and Psychology" (1992) videotape produced and directed by Rafael Chodos, c. 18 minutes.
Further reading
Cara Hopkins, "Painting with Sound", Colorado Daily, August 20, 2002.Cara Hopkins, "Junko Chodos: Spiritual Refugee", Colorado Daily, June 25, 2002
William Wilson, "Junko Chodos Finds a Way 'In the Forest'", Los Angeles Times, April 14, 1995.
Peter Frank, in "Art Pics of the Week", L.A. Weekly, May 12–18, 1995
Mac McCloud, "Stuff and Presence", Visions , Los Angeles, California, Summer 1993.
James Scarborough, "Junko Chodos," Visions, Los Angeles, California, December 1992., pp. 52–53.
Peter Frank, "Art Pick of The Week," LA Weekly, Los Angeles, California, October 23-October 29, 1992.
James D. Williams, et al., The Interdisciplinary Reader, pp. 621, 624; Harper Collins Publications (1992)
Noriko Gamblin, "Junko Chodos," Visions, Los Angeles, California, Summer 1991.
Bill Lasarow, "Junko Chodos," ArtScene, Los Angeles, California, February 1991.
Mac McCloud, "Junko Chodos and Roy Herweck at LA Artcore," Visions, Los Angeles, California, Winter 1990.
Suvan Geer, "Art Reviews," Los Angeles Times, Calendar section, July 13, 1990.
Suzanne Lummis, "Into the Mystic: Junko Chodos' Interplanetary Icons," Los Angeles Downtown News, July 9, 1990.
Suzanne Lummis, "Can We Trace the Common Threads Now Woven Into Women's Art?" Los Angeles Downtown News, April 9, 1990.
David Pagel, "Lifting the Curtain: Junko Chodos," Visions, Los Angeles, California, Fall 1988.
Cynthia H. Craft, "Century Gallery Showcases Art, the Environment," Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1998.
Bijutsu Techo, Japanese monthly art magazine, June 1988., “News from Abroad”
“Staring at the Light Beyond the Darkness”, Asahi Shimbun satellite edition, New York and Los Angeles, April 8, 1988
Amaury Saint-Gilles, "Art: People and Places," Mainichi Daily News, Tokyo, Japan, September 20, 1984.
"Junko Chodos One Person Show," Mainichi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan, September 20, 1984.
“The Globe of the Earth is the Canvas”, in People, Asahi Shimbun, September 6, 1984,
“Junko Chodos Collage”, Geijutsu Shincho, Japanese monthly art magazine, June 1980
"Junko Chodos' Show," Mainichi Shimbun, Osaka, Japan,
December 5, 1979.
"Rich, Dense Beauty," Kobe Shimbun, Osaka, Japan,
December 4, 1979.
"Exhibition: Junko Chodos' One-Person Show," Mainichi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan, November 1979.
"Finding Self in Encounter with Root: Japanese Woman Who Lives in America has One-Person Show," Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan, November 15, 1979.
"Staring at Inner Light: Finding the Universe in a root," Sekkai Nippo, Tokyo, Japan, November 17, 1979.
“It's The Way of the Devil”, Bob Garrett, Sunday Herald-Advertiser, Boston, Massachusetts, January 21, 1973