Yuken Teruya
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Yuken Teruya is an artist based in Brooklyn
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Teruya was born in Okinawa. He works in a variety of media and often references consumer culture alongside traditional craft
techniques. An example of his art is the series of McDonalds and high-end designer store bags into which Teruya cuts intricate tree shapes that are then pushed through into the interior of the bag, creating an enclosed environment within.
Free Fish, Asia Society and Museum, New York
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
Un/Fair Trade, Neue Galerie Graz
2006
The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Recorder, Object Australia’s New Design Centre Project Space, Australia
2005
Which way the tomorrow is?, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
VOLTAshow, Basel, Switzerland
Altoid’s Curiously Strong Collection, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
The Acceptance World, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Greater New York 2005, P.S.1, Contemporary Art Center, New York
2004
Galerie Anne De Villepoix, Paris
Dessins et des autres, Galerie Catherine, Brussels
Voges + Partner, Frankfurt
2003
White Meat & Sunlite, Wiensowski und Habord, Berlin
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
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Teruya was born in Okinawa. He works in a variety of media and often references consumer culture alongside traditional craft
Craft
A craft is a branch of a profession that requires some particular kind of skilled work. In historical sense, particularly as pertinent to the Medieval history and earlier, the term is usually applied towards people occupied in small-scale production of goods.-Development from the past until...
techniques. An example of his art is the series of McDonalds and high-end designer store bags into which Teruya cuts intricate tree shapes that are then pushed through into the interior of the bag, creating an enclosed environment within.
Selected exhibitions
2007Free Fish, Asia Society and Museum, New York
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
Un/Fair Trade, Neue Galerie Graz
2006
The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Recorder, Object Australia’s New Design Centre Project Space, Australia
2005
Which way the tomorrow is?, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
VOLTAshow, Basel, Switzerland
Altoid’s Curiously Strong Collection, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
The Acceptance World, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Greater New York 2005, P.S.1, Contemporary Art Center, New York
2004
Galerie Anne De Villepoix, Paris
Dessins et des autres, Galerie Catherine, Brussels
Voges + Partner, Frankfurt
2003
White Meat & Sunlite, Wiensowski und Habord, Berlin
External links
- Yuken Teruya Official Website
- Yuken Teruya on ArtNet.com
- Article from AsiaSociety.org
- Further information from Murata and Friends
- Images, biography and texts from the Saatchi Gallery