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Weston Takeshi Teruya

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

Education

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

Selected Exhibitions: Solo & Two Person

2008
How I Learned to..., collaboration 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 Exhibitions: Group

2008
Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exhibitions: Art Fairs

2007
Aqua Art Miami-Wynwood, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Miami, FL
dc düsseldorf, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

2006
_scope – Miami, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Miami, FL
Year 06 Art Projects, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, London, England
artLA Fair, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Murals & Public Projects

2004
They mistook the determination in our eyes for hopelessness, mural, Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, Los Angeles
Power of Education, mural, Little Tokyo Service Center, collaboration with Aratani after school program youth, Los Angeles

2003
Ricardo Zelada, "Spirits Rising, Rooting" installation in MacArthur Park, site-based project by LA Commons, Los Angeles
Mother Daughter Revolutionary, mural, Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, collaboration with the women of Unit JK & Public Allies, Downey, CA
Our Roots Move Us to Action, mural, UC Irvine, Cross Cultural Center, collaboration with UCI Asian Pacific Student Association, Irvine, CA

Awards and Distinctions

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

Selected Work Experience

Visiting Artist Lectures, Panels and Presentations

2008
visiting artist, "Senior Painting Seminar” California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
juror, Growing Up Asian in America scholarship art contest, Asian Pacific Fund, San Francisco, CA
guest presenter/artist, “Issues in Asian Transnational Adoption and Visual Culture,” UC Davis, Davis, CA

2007
presenter, panel: “Strategic Agents,” CCA Visual Criticism Graduate Symposium, San Francisco, CA
panelist, “Why Drawing? Why Now?”, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
guest classroom speaker, “Advanced Drawing,” California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
guest classroom speaker, “History of Experimental Video,” California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

2006
guest classroom speaker, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
guest classroom panelist, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
lecture, AASU Asian American Studies Lecture Series, Scripps College, Claremont, CA

Reviews, Media & Publications

Storck, Jeanne. “How I Learned To…Weston Teruya & Michele Carlson at Intersection for the Arts.” Shotgun-Review.com, May 15, 2008 [online]
“How I Learned To…at Intersection for the Arts.” Inside City Limits. Comcast SF Channel 11. San Francisco, CA: Channel 11, May 14, 2008.
Goldberg, Max. “Weston Teruya and Michele Carlson: How I Learned To…” Flavorpill.com. April 21, 2008 [online]
DesForges, Jana. Editor. BLK/MRKT Gallery Two. (Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag, 2007). pg. 164-169.
Whiteside, Amber. “Peripheries of Narrative at Patricia Sweetow Gallery,” Artweek, Volume 37, Issue 7, 2006. pg. 14.
Helfand, Glen. “San Francisco Critics’ Picks: ‘Peripheries of Narrative.’” ArtForum.com. June 20, 2006 [online]
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.
Phillips, Gary. Editor. We Shall Not Be Moved: Posters and the Fight Against Displacement in LA’s Figueroa Corridor. (Los Angeles: Strategic Actions For a Just Economy, 2003).
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.

Writing

“Do Pirates Dream of Pixelated Sheep? Asian American Identity & Pirate Futurism in Contemporary Art,” Sightlines. (San Francisco: California College of the Arts, 2007).

Represented By

Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA