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Yuken Teruya ( jap. 照屋 勇賢, ''Teruya Yūken;'' born 1973 in Haebaru,
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) is an artist based in
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Biography

Teruya was born and raised in
Okinawa is a prefecture of Japan. Okinawa Prefecture is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan, has a population of 1,457,162 (as of 2 February 2020) and a geographic area of 2,281 km2 (880 sq mi). Naha is the capital and largest city ...
. He received his BFA at
Tama Art University or is a private art university located in Tokyo, Japan. It is known as one of the top art schools in Japan. History The forerunner of Tamabi was Tama Imperial Art School (多摩帝国美術学校, Tama Teikoku Bijutsu Gakkō) founded in 1935. ...
in 1996, his Postbaccalaureate at
Maryland Institute College of Art The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is a Private university, private art school, art and design college in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1826 as the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, making it one of t ...
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 The Biennale of Sydney is an international festival of contemporary art, held every two years in Sydney, Australia. It is a large and well-attended contemporary visual arts event in the country. Alongside the Venice and São Paulo biennales and ...
, Greater New York 2005 at MoMA PS.1, Shanghai Biennale, Saatchi Gallery London,
Moscow Biennale The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art is one of the most important Russian cultural events and was founded in 2003. First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art The First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (January 28 – February 28, 2005) ca ...
, 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 ''
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'' and other newspapers and his work is featured on academic literature on Okinawa


Public collections (selection)

*
Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim Museums are a group of museums in different parts of the world established (or proposed to be established) by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Museums in this group include: Locations Americas * The Solomon R. Guggenhei ...
, New York, US *
The Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of th ...
, New York, US * Daiichi Seimei Museum, Tokyo, Japan *
Seattle Art Museum The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as SAM) is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) in Volunteer Park on Cap ...
, Seattle, US * Twigg-Smith Museum, Honolulu, US * Hoffman Collection, Berlin, Germany * Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany * Altoids Collection,
New Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Sc ...
, New York, US * Norton Collection, New York, US * Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK * Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan *
Mori Art Museum The is a contemporary art museum founded by the real estate developer Minoru Mori (1934–2012) in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills complex both of which he built in Tokyo, Japan. The exterior architect of the museum's gall ...
, Tokyo, Japan *
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo The is a contemporary art museum in Koto, Tokyo, Japan. The museum is located in Kiba Park. It was opened in 1995. Collections *''Marilyn Monroe'' by Andy Warhol (1967) *'' Girl with Hair Ribbon'' by Roy Lichtenstein (1965) *''Honey-pop'' by ...
, 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 on Artfacts.ne


Interview with Asian Art Newspapers
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