Weston Teruya
Recipient, Visual & Critical Studies Alumni Award for 2019

TOPIC: “Reflections on Material Dislocation and the Visual Language of Hyper-development in Honolulu”

Weston Teruya is an Oakland, California-based, Honolulu, Hawai’i-born artist who has exhibited at the Mills College Art Museum (Oakland), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Kearny Street Workshop (SF), University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa (Honolulu), Longhouse Projects & the NYC Fire Museum (New York), the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and Hiromi Yoshii (Tokyo). He has also received public art commissions from the San Francisco and Alameda County Arts Commissions. Weston has received grants from Artadia, the Asian Cultural Council, Creative Work Fund, Zellerbach Family Foundation, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. He has been an artist-in-residence at A. Farm Saigon, Montalvo Arts Center, Ox-Bow, the deYoung Museum, Recology SF, and Kala Art Institute. Along with his individual practice, he is one-third of the collective, Related Tactics, and produced (un)making, a podcast through Art Practical. Weston received his MFA in Painting & Drawing and MA in Visual & Critical Studies from California College of the Arts (2007), and BA in Studio Art with a minor in Asian American Studies from Pomona College (1999). In spring 2019, he received the Visual & Critical Studies Alumni Award Recipient and a profile of him will appear on the VCS website this fall. For more additional information on Teruya, please visit: www.westonteruya.com