Yuken Teruya

Yuken Teruya (; born 1973) is a Japanese kirigami artist. He is one of the most representative and most successful artists in a generation of Japanese artists born in the 1970s, who came of age amidst the disasters and economic decline of Japan during the 1990s. He lives in New York City and Berlin.

Biography Teruya was born in 1973 in Haebaru, Okinawa. He received a BFA degree at Tama Art University in 1996, a post baccalaureate degree at Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999, and a MFA degree at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2001. and other newspapers and his work is featured on academic literature on Okinawa

In 2023, Teruya's You-I, You-I was the first work of art by a living Okinawan artist to be acquired by the British Museum.

Public collections British Museum, London, UK Guggenheim Museum, New York, US Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Dai-Ichi Seimei Museum, Tokyo, Japan Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, US Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, US Hoffman Collection, Berlin, Germany Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany Altoids Collection, New Museum, New York, New York, US Norton Collection, New York, US Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., US 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishikawa, Japan Rachofsky Art Collection, Dallas, Texas, US

Awards 2001, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, Skowhegan, Maine, US 2005, NYFA fellowship - Lily AuchinclossLily Auchincloss Fellow 200 -Vision of Contemporary Artists, Japan 2005, Emerging Artist Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Arts, US 2006, Artist in Residence Award, Art Scope Daimler Chrysler Japan, Japan 2007, Painters and Sculptors Grant Program Award, Joan Mitchell Foundation, US