Yuken teruya biography
- Born 1973, Japan.
- Biography lives and works in New York 2001 MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York 1999 Post Baccalaureate, Maryland Institute College of Art, Maryland.
- Using newspapers, old toilet rolls and shopping bags, the Japanese-born, Brooklyn-based artist creates self-contained depictions of nature that imply rather.
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Yuken Teruya
2023
Japan: Myth to AnimeYoung V&A, London
Symphony of All the Changes, the 7th Guangzhou Triennial”, Guangzhou
KATAZOME TODAY Migrations of a Japanese Art, Whatcome Museum, Bellingham, WA
2022
Sea Lane, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Kanazawa
Wing of Fabric：Dyed textle and Contemporary Art, SOMÉ, Museé de Somé Seiryu, Kyoto
REFLECTIONS, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Omoromachi, Naha City, Okinawa
2020
Bangkok Art Biennale, Collaboration with Linda Havenstein, Bangkok, TH
Backseat Driver, Yuken Teruya and Kameelah Janan Rasheed, New York City, USA
Monopoly Money, Bar Am (Würfel), Berlin, DE
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019
4th Triennale of Kogei, Kanazawa, JP
Where we now stand – In order to map the future, 21th Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, JP
Mediums of Exchange, Shirley Fiterman Art Center BMCC, New York City, USA
2018
12th Shanghai Biennale, Pro Gress, Shanghai, CN
Yambaru Art Festival, Okinawa, JP
A Reunion with the Sea: Tealism as Modern Asian Thought, O
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About
Representing galleries
Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Santa Monica
Josée Bienvenu Gallery
New York
Ota Fine Arts
Tokyo
Piero Atchugarry Gallery
Miami, Italy, Uruguay
Works available
Yumiko Chiba Associates
Tokyo
Dorothée Nilsson Gallery
Berlin
Yuken Teruya was born in Okinawa, Japan in 1973. Yuken received his BFA from Tama Art University, Tokyo in 1996, and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2001.
He has shown at the Guggenheim, New York, the Biennale of Sydney, Greater New York 2005 at MoMA PS.1, Shanghai Biennale, Saatchi Gallery London, Moscow Biennale, Yokohama Triennale, the US Ambassador's House, Tokyo, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, and in various other exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia.
His work is included in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Guggenheim, New York; Flag Art Foundation, New York; the Charles Saatchi Collection, London; Ethnological Museum/Asian Art Museum Berlin, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
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Yuken Teruya
Japanese artist
Yuken Teruya (jap. 照屋 勇賢, Teruya Yūken; born 1973 in Haebaru, Okinawa) is one of the most representative and most successful artists in a generation of Japanese artists born in the 1970s, who came of age amidst the disasters and economic decline of Japan during the 1990s. His is currently based in New York City and Berlin.
Biography
Teruya is Okinawan, born on the islands in 1973. Conscious of being an outsider and minority in Japan, he has pioneered a transnational and global career that took him for twenty years to New York before expanding to Berlin in 2018. He received his BFA at Tama Art University in 1996, his Post baccalaureate at Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999 and his MFA at the School of Visual Arts NY.
If what impressed Teruya about New York was the constant struggle for "identity" and recognition as a minority and immigrant, and the democratic energy for equal rights that this could still generate, in Berlin, he has been most swayed by the exuberant carnivalesque nature of political assertion – parades of danc
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