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Yuken Teruya

Country(activity based):
Japan / USA
Genre:
Visual Art

Profile

2001  MFA, School of Visual Arts, NY
1999  Post Baccalaureate, Maryland Institute College of Art, ML, USA
1996  BFA, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan


Selected Awards
2007  Painters and Sculptors Grant Program Award,
          Joan Mitchell Foundation, NY
2006  Artist in Residence Award,
          Art Scope DaimlerChrysler Japan, Japan
2005  NYFA fellowship - Lily Auchincloss Fellow, NY, USA
2002  Vision of Contemporary Artists, Tokyo, Japan
          Emerging Artist Award,
           The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Arts, CT, USA
2001  Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship,
           Skowhegan, ME, USA


Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007  "Yuken Teruya" Murata&Friends Gallery, Berlin, Germany
          "Free Fish >-:► The Art of Yuken Teruya" Asia Society, NY
          "Yuken Teruya and 3D News" Shoshanawayne Gallery,
            Santa Monica, CA, USA
2006  "Straight Flavor - Yuken Teruya"
           Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
          "Teruya Yuken- Waterbone Islands" Asahi Art Festival,
            Sumida River Side Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005  "Yuken Teruya" Shoshanawayne Gallery,
           Santa Monica, CA, USA
          "Yuken Teruya" Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
          "Yuken Teruya" Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany
2004  "Yuken Teruya" Diverse Works Art Space, Houston, TX, USA
          "Yuken Teruya" Voges and Partner Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
2003  "Yuken Teruya" Murata and Friends Gallery, Berlin, Germany
          "Yuken Teruya" Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
2002  "Yuken Teruya" Shoshanawayne Gallery,
           Santa Monica, CA, USA
          "Yuken Teruya" K.S. Art, New York, NY
          "Yuken Teruya" The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Arts,
           Ridgefield, CT, USA
1995  "Yuken Teruya" Ann Gallery, Saitama, Japan

 

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008  "Okinawa" The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
          "Landscape: Lu-Lu-Lu" Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art,
           Shizuoka, Japan
          "It's Getting Hot in Here"
           Akus Gallery at Eastern Connecticut State University 
           in Willimantic, CT, USA
          "Second Life!" Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY
          "Transformed" Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, VA, USA
          "Wall Rockets" Arts FLAG Foundation, New York, NY
          "Art Scope 2007/2008" Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
          "When Lives Become Form:
            Dialogue with the Future? Brazil, Japan"
            Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil
          "It's Getting Hot in Here"
            Montserrat College of Art Gallery, MA, USA
          "Atomic Sunshine" Puffin Room, New York, NY
2007  "Milk Crown and Mushroom Cloud"
           David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
          "Attention to Detail" The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
          "Trends of Okinawan Culture 1872-2007" 
            Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
          "Making a Home" Japan Society, New York, NY
          "Serendipitous-Tangents" Gallery FACTORY Seoul, Korea
          "Un/Fair Trade - Die Kunst der Gerechtigkeit"
            Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Germany
          "Super PHAT" School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
          "Views of Water: From Monet and Taikan to the Present"
            Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan
          "Theermocline of Art-New Asian Waves"
            ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
          "The Shapes of Space" Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
          "Arte Povera Now and Then:
            Perspectives for a New Guerrilla Art"
            Esso Gallery, New York, NY
2006  "Asian Pacific Triennial" Queensland Art Gallery,
           Brisbane, Australia
          "Crafty" Mass Art, Boston, MA, USA
          "Global" Westport Arts Gallery, Westport, CT, USA
            Workshop by "Toyota: Children meet Artists in Okinawa"
            Hospital, University of the Ryukyu Okinawa, Japan
          "Gardens" Toyota Municipal Art Museum, Aich, Japan
          "Rapt!" Object Galley, Sydney, Australia
          "Rapt!" Gertrude Contemporary Art Space,
            Melbourne, Australia
          "Bangladesh Biennale" Dhaka, Bangladesh 
2005  "The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection"
           New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
          "Anyang Public Art Project" Anyang, Korea
          "Yokohama 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art" 
            Yokohama, Japan
          "Art Center Seattle, Washington"
            Luckman Fine Arts Complex LA, LA, CA, USA
          "Knock" Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto, Japan
          "Greater New York" P.S.1, Contemporary Art Center, NY
          "Material Matter" Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
          "Which way the tomorrow is?" Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2004  "So Weit Japan" Kunstallianz Berlin, Berlin Germany
          "Beginning Here:101 Ways"
            Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
          "Initial Encounters"
            Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY, USA
          "Knots 'n' Structure" Gallery Evan, NY, USA
          "Dessins et des autres" Galerie Anne De Villepoix, Paris, France
          "Dessins et des autres" Galerie Catherine, Brussels, Belgium
          "Intense Focus" Elizabeth Leach Gallery, OR, USA
          "Drawing Outloud" HDC Gallery, NY, USA
          "Newpaper" Cristinerose/Joseebienvenu Gallery, NY, USA
          "A Stereoscopic Vision" Dumbo Arts Center, NY, USA
          "Simply Drawn" Luxe Gallery, NY, USA
          "Fuchu Biennale" Fchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
          "Refrain; Korean, Balkan, Okinawa"
            Total Museum of Contemporary Arts, Seoul Korea
          "A Stereoscopic Vision" Dumbo Arts Center, NY, USA
2003  "You-I You-I" Murata & Friends, Berlin, Germany
          "Slab" University Gallery, Illinois State University, IL, USA
          "Internal Excess" The Drawing Center, New York, NY
          "Hello Franklin" Im n Il Gallery, NY, USA
          "Okinawan Contemporary Art"
            Naha City Gallery, Okinawa, Japan
          "White Meat & Sunlite 2003"
            Wiensowski und Habord, Berlin, Germany
          "Midnight's Children" Columbia University, NY, USA
          "The Broken Mirror" LeRoy Neiman Center Gallery,
            Columbia University, NY, USA
          "Selections Fall 2003" The Drawing Paper, NY, USA
          "Better Homes and Gardens" 
            Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
          "Group Show, Vogas + Partner" Frankfurt, Germany
          "Too Fresh"
            Nurture Art Gallery and Emerging Curator's Resource Center,
            NY, USA
          "Group Show" Gallery Evan, NY, USA
          "TERRARIUM" Bronx River Art Center, NY, USA
          "Schnipseljagd - paper chase" Muellerdechiara, Berlin, Germany
2002  "VOCA:Vision of Contemporary Artists"
           Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
          "Model World" 
            The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Arts, Ridgefield, CT, USA
          "Art on Paper" Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC, USA
          "Paper Cut" Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, USA
          "Before and After" 
            The Asian Art Initiative, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2001  "Humble" curated by Gerald McCarthy,
           Gallery Korea, New York, NY, USA
          "Plant Life" curated by patrick Callery K.S. Art, New York, NY
          "Signature" Paper-bag and Self-Portrait,
            Curated by Mihee Ahn, Im n Il Gallery, Brookyn, NY, USA
          "Young horses" Curated by Andy Cannon,
            The Jam Factory, London, England
          "Hot Lunch"
            School of Visual Arts Soho Gallery, New York, NY, USA
          "Interior Landscapes"
            curated by Susan White and Marcia Godosky,
            Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
          "I Love 01" curated by Yuken Teruya, Yasaibatake, Okinawa, Japan
          "Retro Future Present" Magnifik Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
          "Bienaore" Maejima Art Center, Okinawa, Japan
2000  "A-Mail" Hofer Galeriehaus, Hof, Germany
          "MFA Special Exhibition"
            School of Visual Arts Soho Gallery, New York, NY
          "Paper Works"
            School of Visual Arts West Side Gallery, New York, NY
1997  "Peace Message" Tokyo, Japan
1996  "On Camp Off Base" Tokyo Bigsite, Tokyo, Japan
1995  "CHURA" Okinawa City Gallery, Okinawa, Japan


Selected Edition Works
2008  Upside Down Hinomaru
           (Large- Edition of 5, Small- Edition of 10): 
           Into the Atomic Sunshine Exhibition, New York
2006  Asian Contemporary Art in Print (Edition of 100):
           In Commemoration of Asia Society's 50th Anniversary 2006,
           Asia Society and Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI)


Selected Public Collections
- Guggenheim Museum, New York
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Daiichi Seimei Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
- Twigg Smith Collection, Hawaii, USA
- Hoffman Collection, Berlin, Germany
- Altoids Collection, New Museum, New York
- Norton Collection, New York
- Charles Saatchi Collection, London, England
- Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
- Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan


Selected Bibliography
2007
- Rosenberg, Karen, Willingly or Unwillingly,
   Calling New York Their Home,
   The New York Times, November 9, 2007
- Art Listings, The New York Times, September 14, 2007
- Art, The New York Times, August 31, 2007
- Art in Review; MICROWAVE FIVE,
   The New York Times, August 24, 2007
- Talbot, Emily, Yuken Teruya,
   Time Out New York, March 15, 2007 - March 21, 2007

 

2006
- Cotter, Holland, Art in Review; E7,
   The New York Times, September 15, 2006
- Genocchio, Benjamin, ART REVIEW;
   Tristate Talent Search Hits a High Note,
   The New York Times, August 6,2006
- Bischoff, Dan, Exhibit Could Inspire Joyce Kilmer,
   The Star-Ledger, May 5

 

2005
- Egan, Maura The Remix; The Paper Boy,
   The New York Times, December 4, 2005
- Genocchio, Benjamin, ART REVIEW;
   One Layer Leads To Another Layer,
   The New York Times, November 6, 2005
- Esplund, Lance, This is New York, But Only Part of It,
   The Sun New York, March 17
- Scott, Andrea, Local Heros,
   Time Out New York, March 31 - April 7
- Andrews, Betsy, Getting Ourselves Back to the Garden,
   Gay City News, April 28- May 4
- Westcott, James,
   Greater New York 2005 Yuken Teruya:
   A Tree Grows in a Shopping Bag, Art Fairs International
- Abbe, Mary, Curiously Fun Eclecticism, Star Tribune, June 17
   Kimmelman, Michael, Youth and the Market,
   The New York Times, March 15,2005

 

2004
- Mathonnet, Philippe, Art | Basel,
   Bouquet D'images à Fleur D'émotions, Le Temps, June 19
- Coulson, Amanda, Yuken Teruya,
   Art on Paper, November/December
- Klaasmeyer, Kelly, Teruya's Bag, Houston Press, November 25
- Roeske, Sharon, Diverseworks: Yuken Teruya, Notice Forest,
   Arts Houston, December

 

2003
- Johnson, Ken, ART REVIEW;
   Redefinitions of Drawing Go to the Wall (and Off It),
   The New York Times, September 12, 2003
- Harrison, Helen, ART REVIEWS; Recycling Paper:
   Not Just Good for the Environment,
   The New York Times, January 5, 2003

 

2002
- Onaga, Naoki, Yuken Teruya, VOCA
- Uehara, Kou, Yuken Teruya, Okinawa Times
- Zimmer, Willliam ART; From Now and From Then,
   Art That's Both New and Novel,
   The New York Times, October 20, 2002
- Smith, Roberta, ARBORETUM, New York Times, May 18

 

2001
- Currah, Mark, Young Horses, Time Out London
- Kalm, James, RetroFururePresent at Magnifik,
   NY Art Magazine, April
- Shimabukuro, Hiroshi, Young Artists from NY, OCS

 

2000
- Eggers, Dave, Top Ten, Art Forum, April, p58
- Sziegoliet, Von Ralf, A-Mail aus New York: Am Anfang war Hof

About works / performance

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"You-I, You-I" Linen, Color Pigments, 2002
Courtesy of Okinawa Prefectural Museum

 

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Above: "Woodpecker" Toilet Paper Roll, 1999
Below: "Rain Forest (Murata & Friends Gallery shot)" Toilet Paper Rolls Dimensions Variable, 2007

 

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Both: "Lost and Found"The New York Times, 2007

 

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Above: "DGiving Tree Project (Gallery FACTORY shot), The Giving Tree Book",2007
             Courtesy of the Artist
Below: "and eat apple, The Giving Tree Book", 2008  Courtesy of Shoshanawayne Gallery

 

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Above: "FFree Fish (Fish Catcher)" Mixed media installation Dimension variable, 2007
             Installation at the Asia Society, New York
Below: "Free Fish" Mixed media installation Dimension variable, 2007
              Collection of the artist / Installation at the Asia Society, New York
              (Photo Eileen Costa)

 

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"For the world to come" Mixed Media Installation, 2004

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"TRENN MEINEN LAIB VOM RUMPF UND BAU DIR EIN BOOT. DANN KANNST DU FORTFAHREN
(Cut down my trunk and make a boat. Then you can sail away)"
Pine Tree Twigs, Dimension Variable, 2007 / Courtesy of Murata & Friends Gallery
(Photo: Manabi Murata)

 

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"Dessert Project (paradigm shift)"Jam, Sponge Cake, Candies, Gum, 2006
Cooperation: EAT & ART TARO, Ooba Yuka

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Above: "Dawn (Knife)" Knife, Butterfly Chrysalis, Glue, 2008
            Courtesy of Murata & Friends Gallery  (Photo: Jeffrey Prehn)
Below: "Dawn" Shoe, Butterfly Chrysalis, Glue, 2004

 

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"Corner Forest (Serendipitous-Tangents shot)" Toilet Paper Rolls, Dimensions Variable, 2007
Collection of the Artist

 

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"Color the World"Synthesized Fabric, Aluminum Pole, 2002

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"You-I, You-I (Free Fish)" Mixed media installation Dimension variable, 2007
Collection of the artist.
Installation at the Asia Society, New York.
(Most of all Photos: Yoken Teruya)

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