Weston Teruya

Weston Teruya

www.westonteruya.com

Born in Honolulu, Hawai'i, 1977
Lives in Berkeley, CA

Education

2007 M.A., Visual Criticism, California College of the Arts
2006 M.F.A., Painting & Drawing, California College of the Arts
1999 B.A., Studio Art, minor: Asian American Studies, Pomona College

Solo & Two Person Exhibitions

2008
How I Learned To..., collaborative installation with Michele Carlson, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2006
Collapsed System Aftereffects ('til we get there), Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2007
Stop Pause Forward, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
BMG Artists' Annual, BLK/MRKT Gallery, Los Angeles
Graphic: New Bay Area Drawing, Gatehouse Gallery, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA

2006
Peripheries of Narrative, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco
All-College Honors Exhibition, Oliver Art Center, CCA, Oakland (non-fict. writing)
Crossover Stories, Playspace Gallery, CCA, San Francisco
Graduate Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Partially Told Stories, Space 743, San Francisco

2005
Fantastic Amnesia, Playspace Gallery, CCA, San Francisco
Mayhem, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
CCA/SFAI Joint Graduate Exhibition, Swell Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco
Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco
Paper Cuts Again, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA
Yesland Prize Exhibition, Magic Theatre, San Francisco

2003
Self-Help Graphics & Art Annual Print Exhibition, Los Angeles
Visible Resistance!, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA

2002
Fresh Tracks/02, Doizaki Gallery, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles

1999
Scenic Route, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA

Awards

2008 Oliver Ranch Residency, Geyserville, CA
2006 All-College Honors, Graduate Writing - Critical Non-Fiction, CCA
2005 Jack & Gertrude Murphy Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation
2005 Yesland Prize Finalist
1999 Loisa Moseley Fine Arts Fund Prize (Studio Art), Pomona College
1998 Corinne Gilbert Beaver Art Award, Pomona College

Bibliography

Whiteside, Amber. “Peripheries of Narrative at Patricia Sweetow Gallery,” Artweek, 2006.
Helfand, Glen. “San Francisco Critics’ Picks: ‘Peripheries of Narrative.’” ArtForum.com, June 2006.
Palm, Kristin. “’Partially Told Stories’ at Space 743,” Artweek, Vol. 37, Issue 4, 2006, pg. 17.
Kurtz, Katie. “Partially Told Stories,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vol.40, No. 24, Mar. 15-21, 2006.
Tamura, Michiko. “Art for the Sake of Justice,” Rafu Shimpo, No 30,342, January 28, 2005, pp. 1, 5.
Hiraga, Alissa. “Nikkei Artists Converge at fresh tracks,” Rafu Shimpo, No. 29,644, April 19, 2002, pp. 1-2.
Lawrence, Nora. “Art Majors Show Their Stuff in Year-End Shows,” The Student Life, May 7, 1999.

visual:

How I Learned To...
a collaborative installation with Michele Carlson
Intersection for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
April - May, 2008

writing:

Sightlines online:
essay, Do Pirates Dream of Pixelated Sheep?
(.pdf link)

In my practice, I work with objects and images which typically define and reinforce spaces of privilege by creating of sites of control. These include materials like chain link fence and barriers.  I am also intrigued by the objects which inhabit this inversely demarcated space of privlege; especially items which also reside at the edges or boundaries of those sites.  These have included pieces of suburban lawns, ornamentation like garden flags or windsocks and shisa guardian figures.

I take these objects and restructure their relationships in a kind of speculative exercise. These newly configured arrangements of objects emerge from the detritus of original sites. The pieces are built from objects that still carry with them the traces of their original social purpose but have been adapted to more ambiguous formations, allowing the potential for agency or critique.