Yuken Teruya

Yuken Teruya ( jap. 照屋 勇賢, ''Teruya Yūken;'' born 1973 in Haebaru, Okinawa) is an artist based in New York City and Berlin.

Biography

Teruya was born and raised in Okinawa. He received his BFA at Tama Art University in 1996, his Postbaccalaureate at Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999 and his MFA at the School of Visual Arts NY.

Works

Teruya is known equally for his intricate works in paper reflecting on consumer culture as well as for his artful use of traditional textile techniques to deal with political and cultural issues in his homeland Okinawa.

"Yuken Teruya filters his observations of contemporary life and his native Okinawa into elegant, evocative mixed-media installations, sculptures, and public art projects that speak of the shaping forces of consumerism, politics, and history. Using humble materials, like toilet paper roles and pizza boxes, he crafts visions that reveal the disharmony between human beings and nature, and among ourselves. The delicacy and beauty of his works belie their critical edge. In You-I, You-I (2002–05), for example, he re-worked the patterning on Okinawa’s traditional kimono, interrupting images of indigenous flora and fauna with those of U.S. fighter jets and paratroopers, representing American and Japanese colonization. Trees recur throughout Teruya’s works. He has cut them out of toilet paper roles and shopping bags, materials they were destroyed to create, symbolic of our over-abundant consumer culture and its disregard for nature." - Artsy.net

Exhibitions

Teruya's work was 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.

Significance

Teruya's work is regarded as influential in the art world and beyond. While Artfacts.net ranks him as one of the top 100 artists from Japan, he also had collaborations with ''The New York Times'' and other newspapers and his work is featured on academic literature on Okinawa

Public collections (selection)

* Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
* The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
* Daiichi Seimei Museum, Tokyo, Japan
* Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, US
* Twigg-Smith Museum, Honolulu, US
* Hoffman Collection, Berlin, Germany
* Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany
* Altoids Collection, New Museum, New York, US
* Norton Collection, New York, US
* Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK
* Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
* Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
* Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
* 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishikawa, Japan

Awards

* 2007 Painters and Sculptors Grant Program Award, Joan Mitchell Foundation, US
* 2006 Artist in Residence Award, Art Scope Daimler Chrysler Japan, Japan
* 2005 NYFA fellowship - Lily AuchinclossLily Auchincloss Fellow 200 -Vision of Contemporary Artists, Japan
* 2005 Emerging Artist Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Arts, US
* 2001 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, Skowhegan, UShttp://yukenteruyastudio.com/_literature_97590/View_Yuken_Teruya's_CV.pdf

References

External links

* Yuken Teruy
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* Yuken Teruya o

* Yuken Teruya on Artfacts.ne


Interview with Asian Art Newspapers

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