BIOGRAPHY
Marie Čermínová, known as Toyen was born in 1902 in Prague in the Czech Republic and died in 1980 in Paris. She was a Surrealist artist who was active for almost sixty years.
With Jindřich Štyrský, whom she met in 1922, she became a member of the Devětsil group.
In 1923, she travelled to Italy and France and adopted the pseudonym Toyen after the French "citoyen" (citizen). In 1925, she moved to Paris with Štyrský. They founded the "artificielisme" style, anticipating certain elements of future lyrical abstraction. That same year, they met André Breton and the Surrealists, with whom they were to collaborate for a long time.
2022
- Toyen. L’écart absolu, Paris Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
2021
- Toyen. The dreaming rebel, National Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
2015
- Toyen. Vidim, nebot’je noc / I see for it is night, Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic
2002
- Toyen. Une femme surréaliste, Saint-Etienne Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Etienne, France
1992
- Štyrský, Toyen. Artificialismus. 1926-1931, Stredoceska Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
1982
- Štyrský, Toyen, Heisler, National Museum of Modern Art - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1966
- Štyrský a Toyen, Dila z let 1921-1945, Moravaska Gallery, SCSVU, Brno, Czech Republic
1947
- Toyen, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
1938
- International Exhibition of surrealism, Tenerife (Islas Canarias), Spain
- La voix de la Forêt II, Galerie Wildenstein, Paris, France
1937
- Exhibition Overseas Surrealist’s Works, Japan
1936
- International Surrealist Exhibition, London, United Kingdom
1931
- Palais des Beaux-Arts of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
1926
- First exhibition with Štyrský, Galerie du 135 boulevard Raspail, Paris, France