Born in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, United States
Lives & Works in Oakland, California, United States
2024
the last muffled breaths of the undead masculine, Cube Space Gallery, Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA
Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX [with Related Tactics and contributing artists]
2023
Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY [with Related Tactics and contributing artists] (catalog)
2022
Kuroshio no mabui, Headlands Center for the Arts Project Space, Sausalito, CA
Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass, collaborative creative & research project, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC [with Related Tactics and contributing artists]
Thick Solidarity, special residency/artist convening project, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA [with Related Tactics and participating artists]
2021
Who Else But Americans…, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO [with Related Tactics]
2020
The future now, public project on 3rd Street corridor, Bayview neighborhood, San Francisco, CA [with Related Tactics, curated by Astria Suparak for USF Thacher Gallery]
Become The Monuments That Cannot Fall, Thatcher Gallery (online), University of San Francisco, CA [with Related Tactics, curated by Astria Suparak and the USF Museum Studies Curatorial Practicum]
Never Again is Now, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA [with Related Tactics]
2019
expansion (land.water.sky), Commons Gallery, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
Ready, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA [with Related Tactics and contributing artists]
2018
Means of Exchange (South of Market), San Francisco, CA [collaborative project with Kearny Street Workshop & Kimberley Arteche]
2017
The future needs new plans, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Oakland, CA
No matter the intentions, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco [with Related Tactics]
2016
Declarations for the New Year, Southern Exposure, San Francisco [with Related Tactics and contributing artists/collectives]
the space left behind, Recology Artist-in-Residence exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Pulse Miami : Conversations, (Patricia Sweetow Gallery), Miami, FL (two-person booth)
2011
2×2 Solos: Weston Teruya, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009
The Pull of Two Signs Rising Over the Land, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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
2024
P L A C E: Reckonings by Asian American Artists, Institute for Contemporary Art – San Jose, CA [with Related Tactics]
Walking Stories, Edge on the Square, San Francisco, CA [with Related Tactics & Mia Nakano of the Visibility Project and contributing artists]
A leaf a gourd a shell a net a bag a sling a sack a bottle a pot a box a container, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA [with Related Tactics & contributing artists]
Reshaping the Narrative: California Perspectives, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA [individual practice and with Related Tactics]
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Irving Archives and Museum, Irving, TX
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2023
Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life, Museum of Craft & Design, San Francisco, CA [with Related Tactics]
A Two-Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA [with Related Tactics]
Perilous Playground, Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA
Things On Things On Things, Desai | Matta Art Gallery at CIIS, San Francisco, CA
Dreaming People’s History: The Asian American Radical Imagination, Kearny Street Workshop/Jewett Gallery of the SF Public Library, San Francisco, CA
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
2022
Print Public, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA [with Related Tactics]
2021
Climate Changing, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH [with Related Tactics and contributing artists]
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
The Great AAPI Elder Print Off, organized by For You Productions, San Francisco, CA
2020
25@25: A Community of Artists, Visual & Public Art Gallery, CSU Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA
A Place Beyond, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA [with Vicky Do, curated by MUZ collective] – cancelled due to COVID-19
2019
In Plain Sight, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Museum of Capitalism, Kellen Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY [with Related Tactics]
Task of Remembrance (Present Tense Biennial), Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA [with Related Tactics]
2018
Added Value (collaboration with lead artist Stephanie Syjuco), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA [with Related Tactics]
Infinite Cycle, 41 Ross – Chinese Culture Center (co-presented with Bamboo Curtain Studio & WMA Hong Kong), San Francisco, CA
Betweenscapes, Kearny Street Workshop & Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
All Together Now, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA [with Means of Exchange]
From Here to There: A Constellation of Gestures, Glow Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
re:home – Community Action Center, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2017
New Urban Legends: Resistance of Space (Present Tense Biennial), 41 Ross – Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA
Earth and Reveries, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
SOMA: South of Market, Madeleine Haas Russell Gallery, Rosenberg Library, City College of San Francisco, CA [with Means of Exchange]
Untitled Art Fair, (Artadia), San Francisco, CA
Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Remain! Reclaim! Rebuild! Posters on Affordable Housing, Gentrification, & Resistance, Mercado La Paloma, Los Angeles, CA (organized by the Center for the Study of Political Graphics)
Recology SF artists-in-residence program exhibition, 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, James R. Browning Building, San Francisco, CA
Recology SF artists-in-residence program exhibition, SF Environment Eco Center, San Francisco, CA
2016
NextNewPaper, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Issued ID: Minority As Brand, Black & White Projects, San Francisco [with Related Tactics]
2015
Work in Progress: Investigations South of Market, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Art + Process + Ideas, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Possibilities of Paper: Select Works by Lucas Artists Fellows (2005-2015), Project Space Gallery, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
Hydrarchy: Power, Globalization, and the Sea, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA
Cake, dolls, gift bags, and other things, Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2014
Artadia’s 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Longhouse Projects & the New York City Fire Museum, New York, NY
2013
9th Island & Other Lands, public event, Artists Drawing Club series, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Reverse Rehearsals, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Only a Signal Shown, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2012
Community Creates, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2011
Bay Area Now 6, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Material Deposits, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Parts and Whole, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Land of Magic: Artists Explore Make-Believe, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2010
Assembled, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Cultural Artifacts, Fivepoints Arthouse, San Francisco, CA
2009
A Universe We Can Beleive In, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
A Sense of Place: Location/Inspiration, DeSaisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Interim Infills, temporary public project, San Francisco, CA
2008
Shifted Focus: An APAture Retrospective, Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA
APAture, (Featured Artist – Visual), Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA
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
dc düsseldorf Art Fair, (Patricia Sweetow Gallery), Düsseldorf, Germany
2006
Peripheries of Narrative, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Crossover Stories, Playspace Gallery, CCA, San Francisco, CA
Partially Told Stories, Space 743, San Francisco, CA
Year_06 Art Projects, (Patricia Sweetow Gallery), London, England
artLA Fair, (Patricia Sweetow Gallery), Los Angeles, 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
We Shall Not Be Moved: Posters, Gentrification and Resistance, Downtown UCLA Labor Center, Los Angeles, CA (organized by CSPG)
1999
Scenic Route, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2018 Art on Market Street Poster Series, SF Arts Commission Public Art Program, CA
2012 Small-Scale Artwork Commission Program – Highland Hospital, Alameda County Arts Commission, Oakland, CA
2024
“Resuscitating Memories in the Body,” Reflecting on Ruth Asawa & The Garden of Remembrance, exhibition catalog essay, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery. San Francisco, CA
+ produce/host 5-episode podcast interview series with exhibiting artists
“Us is ____.” Locating a Collective Lyric I. Hopkins Review, Vol 16. Edited by Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager. [with Related Tactics]
“On Hospitality for Artists of Color.” Hello, Goodbye, Hello: The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program. Montalvo Arts Center. edited by Donna Conwell. pg. 154-155. [with Related Tactics]
2022
“Asian American Art is a Monument” The Brooklyn Rail. online. excerpt printed, Vol. 22, Issue 6 (July/Aug 2022). pg. 47. [with Related Tactics]
Foreword. A Hxstory of Renting. 2nd edition. Erina C. Alejo, edited by Lian Ladia. Clamshell Press, San Francisco, CA.
2020
“Where shall we go from here?” YBCA Zine. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. online.
“The Whiteness of Glass.” New Glass Review, vol. 41, Corning Museum of Glass. pg. 4-5. [with Related Tactics]
2017-2019
(un)making. Art Practical. 40-episode podcast series.
2012
“The Language of Seeds & Tents.” Hyphen, Issue 25, pg. 76-78.
2007 M.A., Visual & Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2007 M.F.A., Painting & Drawing, California College of the Arts*, San Francisco, CA
1999 B.A., Studio Art, minor: Asian American Studies, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
* exhibition and coursework completed in 2006
2023
Rainin Fellowship – Public Space, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Oakland, CA [with Related Tactics]
Future Studies grant, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI [with Related Tactics]
2022
Headlands Center for the Arts project space artist-in-residence, Sausalito, CA
CoLAB residency, Lucas Artists Residency Program, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA [with Related Tactics]
Core grant, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI [with Related Tactics]
2021
The Luminary Artist-in-Residence, St. Louis, MO [with Related Tactics]
Print Public – San Pablo Fellowship, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA [with Related Tactics]
2020
Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC [with Related Tactics]
2019
A. Farm Artist-in-Residence, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
CCA Visual & Critical Studies Alumni Award, San Francisco, CA
2018
Asian Cultural Council Individual Fellowship
Ignite Award, Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA
2017
deYoung Museum Artist Studio Program Artist-in-Residence, San Francisco, CA
Kala Art Institute Fellowship Artist-in-Residence, Berkeley, CA
2016
Creative Work Fund grant with Kearny Street Workshop & Kimberley Arteche, San Francisco, CA
Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency Fall Artist-in-Residence, Saugatuck, MI
Recology Artist-in-Residence, San Francisco, CA
Real Time & Space Artists-in-Residence, Oakland, CA [with Related Tactics]
Sedona Summer Colony Artist-in-Residence, , Sedona, AZ
2015
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts artist-in-residence (Work in Progress exhibition), San Francisco, CA
Art+Practice+Ideas Residency, Mills College Art Department & Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2014
Investing in Artists Grant (Artistic Innovation category), Center for Cultural Innovation, CA
2010
Irvine Fellow, Lucas Artists Residency Programs, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2009
Artadia Award(San Francisco Bay Area)
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
1999
Loisa Moseley Fine Arts Fund Prize (Studio Art), Pomona College, Claremont, CA
1998
Corinne Gilbert Beaver Art Award, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2021-2023 Board member, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2021-2023 Set Designer, IKKAI: A Transplanted Pilgrimage, dance theater project led by choreographer Yayoi Kambara
2019-2021 Zellerbach Community Arts Program Panelist
2017-2019 Producer/Host, (un)making podcast, ArtPractical.com
2013-2016 Commissioner, Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA
2009-2012 curatorial committee member, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2007-2015 Program Associate, San Francisco Arts Commission – Cultural Equity Grants/Community Investments, San Francisco, CA
2024
artist talk & workshop, Center for the Arts & Humanities, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA [with Related Tactics]
artist talk, Teaching Artist Fellowship Cohort, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC [with Related Tactics]
2023
artist talk, UCLA Department of Art – Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Los Angeles, CA
visiting artist talk, Visual & Public Art program, Cal State Monterey Bay, Monterey, CA [with Related Tactics]
panelist, panel part of “Under the Same Sun: Reimagining the Edges of Chinatown,” Edge on the Square’s 2nd Annual Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
panelist, “A Dreaming People: Intergenerational Panels and Performances,” Kearny Street Workshop/SF Public Library, San Francisco, CA
presenter/workshop facilitator, “What if Collectivity Were Material,” Material Practice Convening, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI [with Related Tactics]
2021
artist talk, “FAR & Away Conversation with Related Tactics,” Facility for Arts Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, online [with Related Tactics]
panel discussant, “Here to There,” discussion with Rodney Ewing and Genevieve Quick, moderated by Victor Yañez-Lazcano, Recology artist-in-residence program, San Francisco, CA, online
2020
panel discussant, “inDialogue: Our Futures Are Tied,” discussion with Aram Han Sifuentes and Carol Zou, moderated by Megha Ralapati, Hyde Park Art Center & Asian Cultural Council, online
2019
artist talk & discussion co-convenor, “Artist Collectives in San Francisco, Saigon, and beyond,” San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
panel discussant, “Art and Transcultural Negotiation Panel Discussion,” Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
visiting artist talk, Visual & Public Art program, Cal State Monterey Bay, Monterey, CA
visiting scholar talk, “Reflections on material dislocation and the visual language of hyper development in Honolulu,” Visual & Critical Studies Department, California College of the Arts, CA
panel discussant, “A Brief History of Bay Area Now,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
visiting artist talk, Department of Art & Art History, University of Hawai’i, Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
visiting artist talk and workshop, Department of Art & Design, Augusta University, Augusta, GA [with Related Tactics]
workshop, “Binh Quoi Stories in Objects,” paper sculpture workshops, Playtime Festival, Binh Quoi neighborhood, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
artist talk and paper sculpture workshop, Dong Thap Youth Agency Summer Camp, Cao Lanh, Vietnam
2018
workshop, “Creating Amulets & Talismans for our Communities in a Time of Danger,” sculpture workshop, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
panel moderator & discussant, “Infinite Cycle”, 41 Ross – Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA
co-organizer, “Exploring Public Art Practices Symposium” (Time & Space panel – featuring House Full of Black Women, Chinatown Art Brigade, and Imani Jacqueline Brown), Rainin Foundation, Oakland, CA
panel moderator & convenor, “Keeping Our Space: Organizing Cultural Districts in the Bay Area,” (featuring Erick Arguello of Calle 24, Rachel Lastimosa of SOMA Pilipinas, and Tommy Wong of Chinatown Improvement Initiative), Art Practical, San Francisco, CA
2017
artist talk, “Told From Across the Distance,” Kala Artist Fellows, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
panel discussant, “The Right to the Creative City: Towards Arts of Co-liberation”, co-produced by the Stanford University Humanities Center, 41 Ross – Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA
visiting artist talk, Department of Art & Art History, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
panel moderator & co-convenor, “Open Access: Art Practical Podcast with Weston Teruya” (featuring Jaime Cortez & Genevieve Quick), Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2015
artist talk, “Art+Practice+Ideas lecture: Weston Teruya,” Art Department, Mills College, Oakland, CA
workshop, “Papercraft Shisa and Griffon Making,” Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
David M. Roth, “Asian American ‘Reckonings’ @ ICA San Jose.” squarecylinder.com. May 17, 2024 [online] [with Related Tactics]
Osman Can Yerebakan, “The Whiteness of Glass: strength, fragility and exclusion in New York.” Wallpaper*. November 20, 2023. [online] [with Related Tactics]
Anne Lesley Selcer, “The potted plants of our undoing.” In Plain Sight: Kathryn Andrews, castaneda/reiman, Dario Robleto, and Weston Teruya. Mills College Art Museum. pg. 44-53.
Sarah Rose Sharp, “Politicize Your Bookshelf with Colorful, Codified Stickers.” Hyperallergic. February 14, 2019 [online]. [with Related Tactics]
Stacey Eidson, “Shelf Life: Revealing the hidden influences on your bookshelf.” JAGWIRE. Augusta University. March 20, 2019 [online]. [with Related Tactics]
Kara Q. Smith. “Public Sense Episode 1: Weston Teruya.” ArtPractical.com. Issue 9.1. February 7, 2018 [podcast]
Margo L. Machida. “Pacific Itineraries: Islands and Oceanic Imaginaries in Contemporary Asian American Art.” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, Volume 3, Issue 1-2, Brill, 2017, Leiden/Boston, pg. 9-34.
Santhi Kavuri-Bauer. “The Art of Hydrarchy: Asian American Art as Maritime Critique and Utopian Gesture.” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, Volume 3, Issue 1-2, Brill, 2017, Leiden/Boston, pg. 241-251.
Lawrence Gipe. “‘NextNewPaper’ + ‘This is Not a Book’ @ SJICA.” SquareCyllinder.com. August 22, 2016 [online].
Rozalia Jovanovic. “Artadia’s 15th Birthday Adventure in NYC.” Artnet. October 16, 2014 [online].
Alana Wolf. “Material Deposits Explores the Necessity of Objects at ACAC.” Burnaway. August 12, 2011 [online].
Catharine Fox. “Old masters, young award winners in two engaging shows at the Contemporary.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution. August 5, 2011, pg. D5.
Kenneth Baker. “’Bay Area Now 6’ at Yerba Buena Center: art review.” San Francisco Chronicle. July 20, 2011, pg. F-6.
Sarah Hotchkiss. “State of the Arts: Bay Area Now 6.” KQED.org. July 12, 2011 [online].
Resonant City. “Deceptive Solidity: An Interview with Weston Teruya.” Resonant City.net. June 11, 2011 [online].
Shana Agid. “Weston Teruya.” 2 x 2 Solos 2011. Pro Arts: Oakland, 2011, pg. 49-60.
Michele Carlson. “Q+A: Weston Teruya’s Fragile Spaces.” ArtInAmericaMagazine.com. February 25, 2011 [online]
Danielle Sommer. “A Scape Within A Scape Within A Scape: Weston Teruya at Pro Arts.” KQED.org. February 7, 2011 [online]
Franklin Sirmans (editor). 5 Cities 41 Artists Artadia 08/09. Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue: New York, pg. 126-127.
Sita Bhaumik. “Drawn to the Edge: Weston Teruya Invites You to a World of Possibility & Destruction.” Hyphen. Issue 19, Winter 2009. pg. 38-43.
Amber Whiteside. “Weston Teruya and Michele Carlson – Intersection for the Arts.” Sculpture. Vol. 27, No. 10, December 2008. pg. 74-5.
Jeanne Storck. “How I Learned To…Weston Teruya & Michele Carlson at Intersection for the Arts.” Shotgun-Review.com. May 15, 2008 [online]
Amber Whiteside. “Peripheries of Narrative at Patricia Sweetow Gallery,” Artweek. Volume 37, Issue 7, 2006. pg. 14.
Glen Helfand. “San Francisco Critics’ Picks: ‘Peripheries of Narrative.’” ArtForum.com. June 20, 2006 [online]
2017 Daily Acts, A.S.I. Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, 14-artist group exhibition juried from work of senior art majors
2014 Feature, group exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2012 Movement in Many Parts, group exhibition co-curated with Lucy Seena Lin, Kearny Street Workshop, at East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, Oakland, CA
2011 Working Conditions, group exhibition co-curated with Curatorial Committee members, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2011 On the Ground, group exhibition, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Alameda County Art Collection, Alameda County, CA
ArtCenter College of Design Library, Pasadena, CA [with Related Tactics]
Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
City of San Francisco Civic Art Collection, San Francisco, CA
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY [with Related Tactics]
Lafayette Library and Learning Center/City of Lafayette, Lafayette, CA
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL [with Related Tactics]
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Ricker Library of Architecture and Art [with Related Tactics]
University of Richmond – Boatwright Memorial Library, Richmond, VA [with Related Tactics]
private collections