About Weston Teruya
Weston Teruya creates paper sculptures and installations that examine the social dynamics, textures, and histories of specific sites and communities. He has exhibited at Pro Arts and the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco, Longhouse Projects & the NYC Fire Museum in New York, and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Weston has received grants from Artadia and the Center for Cultural Innovation's Investing in Artists program and has been an artist-in-residence with Montalvo Arts Center, Mills College, Recology San Francisco, Kala Art Institute, the deYoung Museum, and Ox-Bow.
Weston is also a member of Related Tactics, a collective of artists, writers, curators, and educators of color and is the host-producer of (un)making, a podcast in discussion with artists, arts administrators, and cultural workers of color.
