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Weston Teruya
Weston Teruya (born 19 Honolulu, Hawai'i) is an Oakland-based visual artist and arts administrator. Teruya's paper sculptures, installations, and drawings reconfigure symbols forming unexpected meanings that tamper with social/political realities, speculating on issues of power, control, visibility, protection and, by contrast, privilege.

Career
Weston Teruya was born in Honolulu, Hawai'i, in 1977. He studied at Pomona College (BA 1999) and received his BA in Studio Art, with a minor in Asian American studies. He studied a dual masters degree at California College of the Arts and graduated in 2007 with an MFA in Painting and Drawing and MA in Visual and Critical Studies. . In graduate school he won the prestigious Murphy Cadogen Award. His written thesis titled, "Do Pirates Dream of Pixelated Sheep? Asian American Identities and Pirate Futurism in Contemporary Art," which used the concept of "pirate futurism" to understand particular identities, particularly in relation to Asian American identities through the works of Stephanie Syjuco, Glenn Kaino, and Jen Liu.

He was a Commissioner for Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA between 2013-2016. Weston Teruya has received many awards and residencies including a Creative Work Fund, Arcadia Award, deYoung Museum Artist Studio Program Artist-in-Residence, Kala Art Institute Fellowship Artist-in-Residence, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts artist-in-residence.

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

 * 2017-18 Means of Exchange (South of Market), public project with Kearny Street Workshop & Kimberley Arteche, San Francisco, CA
 * 2017 Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Oakland, CA
 * 2016 the space left behind, Recology Artist-in-Residence exhibition, San Francisco, CA
 * 2011 2x2 Solos: Weston Teruya, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
 * 2009 The Pull of Two Signs Rising Over the Land, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

 * 2016 NextNewPaper, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
 * 2016 Work in Progress: Investigations South of Market, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
 * 2015 Art + Process + Ideas, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA