1920
Born in Berkeley, California
1937-1946
B.A. and M.A. at University of California, Berkeley interspersed with travelling
1943
One-person show, DeYoung Museum/ San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
1947
Travels to Yucatan, Mexico
1947-1949
Teaches at U.C. Berkeley
1949/1949
Travels in Europe during vacations
1950/51
"Bunce, Johnston, Mundt" exhibition: MOMA, NY(Penthouse)
1951
Receives Huntington Hartford Foundation grant; moves to Los Angeles
1952
Receives John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship; moves to Italy and Paris for six months
Two-person show: Art Institute of Chicago
1954/55
Teaches etching at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; works with Emerson Woelffer and Robert Motherwell
1955
Awarded Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant
1956
One-person exhibition: California Palace/Legion of Honor, San Francisco
1957
Receives second Huntington Hartford Foundation grant; moves to Santa Monica
One-person exhibition: Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1960
Marries John Berry
1964/65
John Berry receives Fulbright Grant; Johnston and Berry spend the next year travelling in India, Nepal, Cambodia and Japan
1965
Johnston creates series at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles
1967
One-person exhibition: San Francisco Museum of (Modern) Art
1972
She and Berry spend six months in Mersea, Great Britain
1976
Awarded National Endowment for the Arts grant
1977
One-person exhibition: Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1978
Retrospective exhibition at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
1982
Artist-in-residence at Fullerton College, California with exhibition.
1994
Retrospective exhibition, Bakersfield Art Museum, California
1997
One-person exhibition: Kennedy Museum of American Art, Ohio University
1998
One-person exhibition: Santa Cruz Museum of Art, California
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