Born in 1973 in Okinawa, Japan. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Education

2001
MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1999
Post Baccalaureate, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

1996
BFA, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2010
Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
My Great Grandma is USA, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2009
Gallery Okinawa, Okinawa, Japan

2007
Yuken Teruya, Murata & Friend Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Free Fish, Asia Society, New York
Yuken Teruya and 3D News, Shoshana  Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2006
Waterborne Island, Asahi Art Collaboration, Tokyo, Japan
Straight Flavor, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

2005
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
FOREST INC., Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York

2004
Diverseworks, Houston, TX
Voges + Partner, Frankfurt, Germany

2003
Murata & Friends Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2002
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
K.S. Art, New York
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Arts, Ridgefield, CT

1995           
Ann Gallery, Saitama, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
The Book Borrowers: Contemporary Artists Transforming the Book, Bellevue Arts Museum, Seattle, WA
Migration and Expression, Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Atomic Sunshine, Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary  Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Forces of Nature, Danese Gallery, New York
The Tree, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Curated by Lisa Dennison, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2008
Vested Interest, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI
Landscape: Lu-Lu-Lu , Shizuoka Prefectural Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Cut: Makings of Removal, Vincent Price Art Museum, CA
Okinawa Montaged, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Drawn in the clouds: Contemporary Asian Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
It's Getting Hot in Here, Akus Gallery at Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
Second Lives, Museum of Arts & Design, New York
Wall Rockets, Curated by Lisa Dennison, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Into the Atomic Sunshine, Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Transformed, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, VA
Art Scope, 2007/2008, Daimler Contemporay, Berlin, Germany
When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with the Future? Brazil, Japan Museum of Modern Art,
San Paulo, Brazil
It's Getting Hot in Here, Montserrat College of Art Museum, New Beverly, MA
Into the Atomic Sunshine, Puffin Room, New York

2007
Attention to Detail, FLAG  Art Foundation, New York
Milk Crown and Mushroom Cloud, curated by Manabi Murata, David Castillo Gallery, New York
Art Scope 2007/2008, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York, Japan Society, New York
Super PHAT, presented jointly by SVA and the SVA Japan Alumni Association, New York
The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Thermocline of Art - New Asian Waves, ZKMI: Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany

2006
Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Crafty, Mass Art, Boston, MA
Gardens, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Rapt!, Object Gallery, Sydney and Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
Bangladesh Biennial, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Among the Trees, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Waterborn Islands, Asahi Art Collaboration, Japan

2005
The Altoids  Curiously Strong Collection, Consolidated Works, Contemporary Drawing: Six Perspectives, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, NY
The Acceptance World,Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Lost and Found, Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto, Japan
Yokohama International Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
Knock, Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto, Japan
7th Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Luckman Gallery, California State University, L.A., CA
Greater New York, P.S.1, Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
Material Matters, Cornel University, Ithica, NY
Which way the tomorrow is?, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2004
A Stereoscopic Vision, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Simply Drawn, Luxe Gallery, New York
Fuchu Biennale, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Refrain; Korean, Balkan, Okinawa Total Museum of Contemporary Arts, Seoul, Korea
Newpapers, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York
Initial Encounters, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
Knots ‘n’ Structure, Gallery Evan, NY
Dessins et des autres, Galerie Anne De Villepoix, Paris, France
Dessins et des autres, Galerie Catherine, Brussels, Belgium
Intense Focus, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Drawing Outloud, HDC Gallery, New York

2003
You-I You-I, Murata & Friends, Berlin, Germany
Slab, University Gallery,Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Hello Franklin, Im n Il Gallery, New York
Okinawan Contemporary Art, Naha City Gallery, Okinawa, Japan
White Meat & Sunlite, 2003, Wiensowski und Habord, Berlin, Germany
Midnight’s Children, Columbia University, New York
Selections Fall 2003, The Drawing Paper, New York
Better Homes and Gardens, Pennsylvania State University, PA
Group Show, Vogas + Partner, Frankfurt, Germany
Too Fresh, Nurture Art Gallery and Emerging Curator’s Resource Center, New York
Group Show, Gallery Evan, New York
TERRARIUM, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY

2002
VOCA:Vision of Contemporary Artists, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Model World, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Arts, Ridgefield, CT
Art on Paper Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC
Paper Cut, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Before and After, The Asian Art Initiative, Philadelphia, PA

2001
Humble, Curated by Gerald McCarthy, Gallery Korea, New York
Plant Life, Curated by Patrick Callery K.S. Art, New York
Signature, Paper-bag and Self-Portrait, Curated by Mihee Ahn, Im n Il Gallery, Brookyn, NY
Young horses, Curated by Andy Cannon, The Jam Factory, London, England
Hot Lunch, School of Visual Arts Soho Gallery, New York
Interior Landscapes, Curated by Susan White and Marcia Godosky, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Gallery, New York
Retro Future Present, Magnifik Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2000
A-Mail, Hofer Galeriehaus, Hof, Germany
MFA Special Exhibition, School of Visual Arts Soho Gallery, New York

1996
Atopic Site; On Camp Off Base, Tokyo Bigsite, Tokyo, Japan
Vision of Contemporary Artists, Tokyo, Japan

1995                 
CHURA, Okinawa City Gallery, Okinawa, Japan

Awards

2007
Painters and Scupltors Grant Program Award, Joan Mitchell Foundation, NY

2006
Artist in Residence Award, Art Scope DaimlerChrysler Japan

2005     
NYFA Fellowship for Sculpture

2002
Vision of Contemporary Artists, Tokyo, Japan
Emerging Artist Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Arts, CT

2001
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, Skowhegan, ME

Selected Bibliography

2009           
Shipley, Jonathan, Breaking Books Open, CityArtsMagazine.com, March

2008           
Cheng, Scarlet, Paper work? Bring it on, Los Angeles Times, October 26
Smith, Roberta, Using Old Materials to Put A New Face on A Museum, New  York Times, September 26

2006
Bischoff, Dan, Exhibit Could Inspire Joyce Kilmer, The Star-Ledger, May 5

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

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

Public Collections

Guggenheim Museum, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, NY
Daiichi Seimei Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Seattle Art Museum, WA
Twigg Smith Collection, Hawaii
Altoids Collection, New Museum, NY
Norton Collection, NY
Charles Saatchi Collection, London, England
Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan