Grand dame of modern Japanese art

AT 101 years of age, Japanese artist Toko Shinoda has accumulated a long list of accomplishments to her name. Not just for her work in modern abstract art - she is also one of Japan's foremost modern practitioners of calligraphy.

Her works have been collected by museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim. Her most iconic piece is a 28-metre-long mural titled The Past, The Present and The Future, and is currently housed at the Zojo-ji - a temple in Tokyo founded in 1372, which is the headquarters of the Pure Land sect of Buddhism.

Shinoda first exhibited in Singapore at the Singapore Art Museum, where hers was one of the first few solo shows that went on display when the museum opened in 1996.