# Yūken Teruya

Yūken Teruya (jap. 照屋 勇賢 Teruya Yūken; * 18. Juni 1973 in der Präfektur Okinawa, Japan) ist ein japanischer bildender Künstler.

## Leben und Werk

Teruya arbeitet mit verschiedenen Medien an einer Vielzahl von Themenbereichen, vor allem mit Alltagsgegenständen und traditionellem Kunsthandwerk. Er lebt in New York und Berlin.

## Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)

* 2018 "Yuken Teruya" Live Forever Art Foundation, Taichung
* 2014–15 "Yuken Teruya On Okinawa, Collections from the past and the future" Dahlem Ethnological Museum/Asian Art Museum (Humboldt Lab Dahlem), Berlin, Germany"
* 2010 "My Great Grandma Is USA" Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
* 2007 "Free Fish >-:► The Art of Yuken Teruya" Asia Society, New York, USA
* 2006 "Straight Flavor - Yuken Teruya" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
* 2005 "Forest Inc.": Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, USA
* 2005 Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
* 2002 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, USA

## Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)

* 2018 "Shanghai Biennale", Shanghai, China
* 2018 "Japanorama: Contemporary Visual Arts & Culture Since 1970", Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
* 2018 "7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art", The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
* 2015 "Who interprets the world?" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
* 2014–15 "Go-Betweens: The World Seen Through Children" Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan; The Museum of Art, Kochi, Kochi, Japan, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
* 2012 "18th Biennale of Sydney" Sydney, Australia
* 2012 "Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan" Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
* 2011 "The 4th Moscow Biennale" Moscow, Russia
* 2010 "Roppongi Crossing": Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
* 2009 "Hundred Stories about Love": 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
* 2008 "Art Scope, 2007/2008": Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
* 2008 "Wall Rockets": The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
* 2007 "Attention to Detail": The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
* 2007 "The Shapes of Space": Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
* 2006 "Asian Pacific Triennial": Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
* 2005 "Greater New York": P.S.1, Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
* 2005 "Yokohama 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art": Yokohama, Japan

## Werke in öffentlichen Sammlungen (Auswahl)

* Guggenheim Museum, New York
* The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
* Daiichi Seimei Museum, Tokyo, Japan
* Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
* Twigg-Smith Museum, Honolulu, USA
* Hoffman Collection, Berlin, Germany
* Altoids Collection, New Museum, New York, USA
* Norton Collection, New York, USA
* Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK
* Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
* Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
* 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
* Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
* Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

## Preise

* 2010 Audience Award, Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
* 2007 Painters and Sculptors Grant Program Award, Joan Mitchell Foundation, USA
* 2006 Artist in Residence Award, Art Scope Daimler Chrysler Japan, Japan
* 2005 NYFA fellowship - Lily Auchincloss Fellow 2002 Vision of Contemporary Artists, Japan
* 2005 Emerging Artist Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Arts, USA
* 2001 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, Skowhegan, USA