| MASAMI TERAOKA | ||||
Born 1936 Onomichi, Japan. Resides in the states. Education
1954-59 B.A.
Aesthetics, Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan 1964-68 B.F.A.
and M.F.A., Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Exhibitions listed are in
the United States, unless otherwise specified.
2008 Masami
Teraoka: The Cloisters Confession, Samuel Freeman (formerly
Patricia Faure Gallery), Santa Monica, California
2004 Masami
Teraoka: New Work, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas Perils and Pleasures: Tales from Masami Teraoka,
1976-2003, Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, Minnesota Masami Teraoka: A New Wave, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2003 U.S.
Inquisition, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California 2002 Masami
Teraoka: Works on Paper 1972 - 2002, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco,
California 2001 Masami Teraoka: Tower of Babel,
San Diego State University, San Diego, California 2000 Masami Teraoka: Tower of Babel, Pamela
Auchincloss, New York, New York Masami
Teraoka: Tower of Babel, Jay Grimm Gallery, New York, New York 1999 Ascending Chaos: Marierier af Masami Teraoka, Frederiks Bastion,
Copenhagen, Denmark Cloning Eve, Catharine Clark
Gallery, San Francisco, California Masami Teraoka: Web of Confessions, Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for
the Arts, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Exhibition traveled to: University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Masami Teraoka: From Tradition to Technology/The Floating World Comes
of Age. Exhibition traveled to: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
College, Oberlin, Ohio David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 1998 Life, Death and Laughter: Paintings and
Prints by Masami Teraoka, University Art Gallery, California State
University, Hayward, California Cybernetic Media Frenzy, Pasadena City College
Art Gallery, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California Waves and Plagues, Three
Rivers Arts Festival, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Masami Teraoka: From Tradition to Technology/The
Floating World Comes of Age. Exhibition traveled to: Yale University
Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. The Hammond Museum, North Salem,
New York 1997 Ascending Chaos: New Works by Masami Teraoka, Catharine Clark
Gallery, San Francisco, California Masami Teraoka, Meyerson
and Nowinski Art Associates, Seattle, Washington Masami Teraoka: From Tradition
to Technology/The Floating World Comes of Age. Exhibition traveled
to: Chikumagawa Highway Museum,
Obuse, Nagano, Japan Paintings by Masami Teraoka,
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California 1996 Paintings by Masami Teraoka, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C. Masami Teraoka: Recent Work,
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas Masami Teraoka: The Confessional
Series, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1995 Masami Teraoka: Future Tense,
Hui No'eau Visual Art Center, Maui, Hawaii. Exhibition traveled
to: University of Colorado,Boulder, Boulder, Colorado Masami Teraoka, Pamela Auchincloss
Gallery, New York, New York 1994 Masami Teraoka, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York,
New York Masami Teraoka: New Paintings,
Fuel Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1992 Masami Teraoka, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Australia Masami Teraoka, Pamela Auchincloss
Gallery, New York, New York Masami Teraoka: Waves and
Plagues, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, England Prints and Works on Paper,
Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, California 1991 Masami Teraoka, New Work, Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Phyladelphia,
Pennsylvania Masami Teraoka, Fuller/Elwood
Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1990 Masami Teraoka, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, New York Waves and Plagues: The Art
of Masami Teraoka, Henry Art Museum, University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington Masami Teraoka, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery,
Alabama 1989 Masami
Teraoka: AIDS Series, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York,
New York Masami Teraoka: Paintings and Prints, Iannetti-Lanzone
Gallery, San Francisco, California Masami Teraoka's Kabuki: Prints and Watercolors, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Masami Teraoka, Cypress College, Cypress, California Masami Teraoka, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New
York, New York Masami Teraoka: An Exhibition of Graphic Work:
1976-89, Weingart Center, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California Masami Teraoka: Painting and Drawings, Schmidt
Dean, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Masami Teraoka: Works in Progress, Victorian College
of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Waves and Plagues: Art of Masami Teraoka (organized
by The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1988) Exhibition traveled to: Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, Ohio, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, Alabama, Grand Rapids, Museum of Art, Grand Rapids,
Michigan 1988 Masami
Teraoka: Paintings & Drawings, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California Waves and Plagues: The Art of Masami Teraoka, The
Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Exhibition traveled to: The Long Beach Museum of
Art, Long Beach, California Masami Teraoka: Paintings and Drawings, Schmidt-Dean
Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1986 Masami
Teraoka: East Meets West, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey,
California Masami Teraoka, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1985 Masami
Teraoka: Tattoo Lady Series, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California Teraoka Erotica, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts
Forum, Santa Barbara, California 1983 Masami
Teraoka, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida Masami Teraoka, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California Masami Teraoka, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa
Barbara, California Masami Teraoka, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, California 1982 Masami
Teraoka, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1981 Masami
Teraoka: The Takeover of East and West, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago,
Illinois 1980 Masami
Teraoka, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California Masami Teraoka, Dwight Boehm Gallery, Palomar College,
San Marcos, California Masami Teraoka, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, New York Exhibition traveled to: Honolulu Academy of Arts;
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport
Beach, California 1979 Masami
Teraoka, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1977 Masami
Teraoka, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California Masami Teraoka, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1975 Recent
Work by Masami Teraoka, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1973 Teraoka,
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, California Masami Teraoka, International Museum of Erotic
Art, San Francisco, California
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary
Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Reconstructing Memories, University of Hawaii,
Honolulu, Hawaii Couples: Under the One Roof, Balcony Gallery, Kailua,
Hawaii Otis L.A. Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Los
Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2005 Art
and Interiors, TAMA Gallery, New York, New York Art of Engagement, San Jose Museum of Art, San
Jose, California Bodyworks, de Young Museum, San Francisco, California Feve: HIV/AIDS in the Age of Globalization, Museum
of World Culture, Sweden Ground Re-opening: Masami Teraoka, Hiroki Morinoue
and Mark Kadota, Robyn Buntin Galleries, Honolulu, Hawaii Here Comes the Bogey-Man, Chelsea Art Museum, New
York, New York Introduction to Contemporary American Print: DNP
Collection, Mihara Region Plaza, Mihara, Japan Selected Works from the Collection, Glasgow Museum
of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland 2004 Arts of the Americas Latin America
and the United States 1800 to Now, Santa Barbara Contemporary Museum,
Santa Barbara, California Finesse, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco,
California It's About Time: Celebrating 35 Years, San Jose
Museum of Art, San Jose, California This and That at the Mac, 9-11, The McKinney Avenue
Contemporary, Dallas, Texas 2003 Annual Nikakai, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,
Tokyo, Japan Artists at the Edge, Museum of Art and History,
Santa Cruz, California Asian Galleries: A New Light on Asian Art, Art
Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Creatures That Stir: Symbol & Satire in Animals
of Imagination, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California Enriched by Diversity: The Art of Hawaii, Hawaii
State Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Gyroscope, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, D.C. 2002 177
th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New York,
New York Art Juxtapoz: 8th Annual Art Show, Track 16 Gallery,
Santa Monica, California 2001 10
10, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco,
California American Stories: From the Personal to the Political,
Dr. James B. Pick and Dr. Rosalyn M. Laudati Gallery, Orange County
Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California The Contemporary Museum Biennial Exhibition, Honolulu,
Hawaii. Exhibition traveled to: Shaefer International Gallery, Maui
Arts and Cultural Center, Kahului, Hawaii East is West in Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts,
Honolulu, Hawaii Issues of Identity in Recent American Art, Roland
Gibson Gallery, State University of New York, Potsdam, New York Theory or Faith, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, California 2000 Made
in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California 1999 The
Day Without Art, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center, Makawao, Hawaii Other Narratives, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,
Texas Spinal Epidural, Please! Catharine Clark Gallery,
San Francisco, California 1998 20
th Century Masterworks, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California Drawings IV, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, California An Exhibition of Work by Five Asian American Artists,
in consortium with Asian Art News, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco,
California Let's Go Ukiyo-e, Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Mitaka,
Tokyo, Japan 1997 20/20 CAF Looks Forward and Back, Santa
Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California Shrines: The Sacred Dimension of Art and Ritual,
Hui No'eau, Makawao, Hawaii 1996 Brenda & Other
Stories, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, England Exhibition traveled to: Cornerhouse, Manchester,
England; Castle Museum, Nottingham, England The Glasgow Museum, Glasgow, Scotland Hidden in Plain Sight: Illusion and the Real in
Recent Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California JAPON/MUKASHI TO IMA - de ayer a hoy, Museo de
Arte y Dise–o Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica Made
to Order: America's Most Wanted Painting, Alternative Museum, New York,
New York Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, Washington Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual
Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts Naked Truths, University of Hawaii, Manoa Art Gallery,
Honolulu, Hawaii Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves, California
Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston,
Texas Transforming the Social Order, Tyler Gallery, Temple
University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1995 Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary
Asian American Art, organized by Asia Society, New York, New York 1994 Exhibition
traveled to: Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii; Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California; Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, Minnesota Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Graphics Archive
Collection, Sukagawa-shi, Fukushima, Japan 1994 Asia/America: Identities in
Contemporary Asian American Art, Asia Society, New York, New York.
Exhibition traveled to: Tacoma Art Museum, Washington Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS,
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia The Floating World: Japan's World of Transient
Pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia The Human Condition: Hope & Despair at the
End of the Century, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan. Exhibition traveled to: The Ashiya Art and History
Museum, Ashiya, Japan Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky,
The Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, New York. Exhibition traveled
to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with the Center for the Arts
at Yerba Buena Garden in association with InterCultura, San Francisco,
California and Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany Le Temps d'un Dessin , Gallerie De L'Ecoles Des
Beaux - Arts De L'orient, Paris, France Theme: AIDS, Nordic Art Center, Helsinki, Finland Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North
Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina 1993 20 th International Biennial of Graphic
Art, International Center for Graphic Art, Tiboli, Ljubljana, Slovenia 45 th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition,
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York Beyond Loss: Art in the Era of AIDS, Washington
Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. The Contemporary Museum Biennial of Hawaii Artists,
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Dismantling Invisibility: Asian and Pacific Islander
Artists Respond to the AIDS Crisis, Space Gallery, Ontario, Canada Fuel Gallery, Seattle, Washington Kathy Muehlemann/Masami Teraoka, Pamela Auchincloss
Gallery, New York, New York Picasso to Christo: The Evolution of a Collection.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California The Sound of Water: Pictures of Water in Japanese
Art, Museum in Schloss, Bad Pyrmont, Germany Tema: AIDS, Henie-Niels Onstad Foundation, Hovikodden,
Norway. Exhibition traveled to: Art Association of Bergen, Norway;
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum of Hagen, Hagen, Germany Transvoices, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, New York. Exhibition traveled to: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,
France 1992 44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase
Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New
York, New York (Basically) Black & White, Riverside Art Museum, University
of California, Riverside Directions In Bay Area Printmaking: Three Decades,
Palo Alto Cultural Center, California Drawings II, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, California From Media to Metaphor, Organized by The Independent
Curators Incorporated. Exhibition traveled to: Emerson Gallery,
Clinton, New York; the Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington; Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown,
Pennsylvania; Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada; McKissick
Museum, Columbia, South Carolina; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach,
Florida; Grey Art Gallery, New York, New York In Praise of Folly, John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
Sheboygan, Wisconsin Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art
, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Public Art Project, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, New York. Exhibition traveled to: The American Center,
Paris, France Virgin Territories, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long
Beach, California 1991 43rd Annual Purchase Exhibition,
The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New
York All For Love, Tyler Galleries, Temple University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dismantling Invisibility, Asian and Pacific Islander
Artists respond to the AIDS Crisis, Art In General, New York, New York Evidence, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New
Jersey In the Looking Glass, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North
Carolina Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper, National Museum
of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Syncretism, Alternative Museum, New York, New York 1990 19th and 20th Century European and American
Prints, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan. Exhibition traveled in Japan to: Navio Museum of
Art, Osaka; Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Marui Imai, Sapporo; Naha Civic Hall, Okinawa AIDS , Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut Art Against AIDS, American Foundation on AIDS Research,
Washington D.C. Inside Out: Voices from Home, San Francisco Art
Institute, San Francisco, California Life Before Art: Images from the Age of AIDS, Carlo
Lamagna Gallery, New York, New York Not so SIMPLE PLEASURES, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts Raging at the Visible: AIDS in the City of Angels,
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California Regarding Art: Artworks About Art, John Michael
Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1989 Art
About AIDS, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania Tradition and Innovation 1500-1989: Recent Acquisitions
of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museum of San
Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco,
California Masami Teraoka/Armin Muller, Pamela Auchincloss
Gallery, New York, New York Watercolor: Contemporary Currents, Riverside Art
Museum, University of California, Riverside Watercolors from Schmidt-Dean Exhibition and American
Kabuki/Oishiiwa, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New
York Where Two Worlds Meet: Masami Teraoka and Roger
Shimomura, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 1988 Preview
'89, Ianetti-Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, California Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii 1987 The Avante-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles
County Museum of the Art, Los Angeles, California Contemporary Southern California Art, Taipei Fine
Arts Museum, Taiwan. Exhibition traveled to: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles,
California Masami Teraoka: American Kabuki/Oishiiwa, Honolulu
Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii Seriously Humorous, Rancho Santiago Art Gallery,
Santa Ana, California 1986 Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery
of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia East/West: Contemporary Asian-American Art, Montgomery
Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, California Tokyo: Form and Spirit, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,
Minnesota. Exhibition traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, California; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, New
York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Willard Gallery, New York, New York 1985 The American Experience: Contemporary
Immigrant Artists, The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania Amerika Haus, United States Cultural Center, Berlin,
Germany California Artists from the Permanent Collection,
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California Symbols and Narratives, Visual Arts Center of Alaska,
Anchorage, Alaska 1984 A Broad Spectrum: Los Angeles
Contemporary Painters and Sculptors '84, Design Center of Los Angeles,
California Drawings by 50 California Artists, Modernism, San
Francisco, California El Arte Narrativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico
City, Mexico. Exhibition traveled to: Institute for Art and Urban Resources Inc, Long Island City,
New York Masami Teraoka and Ben Sakoguchi , C. N. Gorman
Museum, University of California, Davis, California 1983 38th Corcoran Biennial of American
Painting/Second Western States Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C. Exhibition traveled to: Lakeview Museum of Arts and
Sciences, Peoria, Illinois; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale,
Arizona; Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Long Beach Museum
of Art, Long Beach, California; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, California Hassam and Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition, American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York Irvine Collects Contemporary Art, Irvine Fine Arts
Center, Irvine, California Masami Teraoka/Armin Muller, Pamela Auchincloss
Gallery, Santa Barbara, California Masami Teraoka/Kenneth Hale, Harris Gallery, Houston,
Texas Rejoice! , Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University
of California, Santa Cruz, California 1982 National
Print Exhibition, Gallery 101, University of Wisconsin, River Falls,
Wisconsin 1981 Decade: Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies,
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California Deja Vu: Masterpieces Updated, Western Association
of Art Museums, San Francisco, California Humor in Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, California Professor's Choice, Montgomery and Lang Galleries,
Claremont College, Claremont, California Works on Paper from Newport Harbor Art Museum,
Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna, California 1980 Katachi: Form and Spirit in Japanese Art,
The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Masami Teraoka, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York, New York. Exhibition traveled to: Fine Arts
Museum of San Francisco, Downtown Center, San Francisco, California 1979 Selections from the Frederick Weisman Company
Collection of California Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C. The Artist as Social Critic, Los Angeles Municipal
Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1978 Art
About Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Exhibition traveled to: North Carolina Museum of
Art, Raleigh, North Carolina; Frederick S. Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, California;
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Deja-Vu: Masterpieces Updated, Downey Museum of
Art, Downey, California The Frederick Weisman Company Collection of California
Art, The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long
Beach, California Thanatopsis: Contemplations on Death, Space Gallery,
Los Angeles, California 1977 Miniature,
California State University, Los Angeles, California 1976 Art Lending Service, Museum
of Modern Art, New York, New York and Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, Los Angeles, California L.A. 8, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles,
California New Work: California, Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York Self-Portrait/Self Reference, California State
University, San Bernardino, California 1975 4
x 8 Plus 4 x 4, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California Current Concerns Part II, Los Angeles Institute
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Impetus--The Creative Process, Los Angeles Municipal
Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California New Acquisitions, Extended Loans and Selected Works,
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California 1974 Ellie
Blankfort Gallery, Los Angeles, California In the Japanese Tradition, Baxter Art Gallery,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 1968 Andrew
Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Charles H. McNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa Do Gallery, San Francisco, California Pollock Galleries, Dallas, Texas 1967 1st
Biennial Exhibition of Painting and Drawing, Mount San Antonio College,
San Antonio, Texas Cerritos Gallery, Los Angeles, California Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California Westwood Art Association, Los Angeles, California 1966 California
Small Images, California State, Los Angeles, California
Selected Grants and Awards
2006 2004 1994 Otis College of Arts and Design/Distinguished
Alumnus of the Year Award, Los Angeles, California 1993 American
Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York 1989 National
Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship, Washington, D.C. 1985 American
Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York 1980 National
Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship, Washington, D.C. 1978 Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Kay Nielsen Memorial Purchase Award through
the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, California
Film and Video
2003 Masami
Teraoka: Cloning Eve and Geisha, by Lynda Hess 2002 Floating
World of Masami Teraoka, by Louis Lo
Selected Lectures
2006 Masami
Teraoka, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California Masami Teraoka, Pasadena City College, Pasadena,
California Masami Teraoka with Lynda Hess, University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon 2004 Masami
Teraoka with Lynda Hess, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 2002 Masami Teraoka with Doug Hall,
Association of Museum Directors National Convention at Hilton Hawaiian
Village Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii Masami Teraoka with Lynda Hess, Boston Fine Art
Museum, Boston, Massachusetts 1999 Masami
Teraoka with Lynda Hess, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Masami Teraoka with Lynda Hess, Oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio Masami Teraoka with Lynda Hess, Lewis and Clark
College, Portland, Oregon Masami Teraoka with Lynda Hess, University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon 1998 Masami
Teraoka with Lynda Hess, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California Masami Teraoka with Lynda Hess, Stanford University,
Stanford, California Masami Teraoka with Lynda Hess, Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut 1997 Masami
Teraoka with Lynda Hess, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California 1996 Claremont
Graduate School, Claremont, California The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas Arthur M. Sackler Art Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington 1995 Hui
No'eau Visual Arts Center, Maui, Hawaii Masami Teraoka with Lynda Hess, San Francisco Art
Institute, San Francisco, California Masami Teraoka with Lynda Hess, University of Colorado
at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 1994 Asian
Art Society, New York, New York Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco,
California Masami Teraoka with Lynda Hess, Eastern Montana
College, Billings, Montana Masami Teraoka with Lynda Hess, Montana College
of Arts, Bozeman, Montana Masami Teraoka with Lynda Hess, Montana University,
Missoula, Montana 1992 Asian
Art Society of Australia, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Australia Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New
York, New York New Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Australia Wollongong University, North Wollongong, Australia 1991 Fullerton
College, Fullerton, California 1989 Cypress
College, Cypress, California Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California Oakland Museum, Oakland, California School of Visual Arts, New York, New York Sydney College of the Arts, Glebe, Australia Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne, Australia 1987 Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California University of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 1983 Oakland
Museum, Oakland, California Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, California 1980 Honolulu
Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii 1979 Los
Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, California Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York 1978 Cuesta
College, San Luis Obispo, California Humboldt College, Arcata, California San Diego State University, San Diego, California 1977 Architectural
Association School of Architecture, London, England American Studies Resources Center, Polytechnic
of Central London, London, England Middlesex Polytechnic, London, United Kingdom 1976 California
State University, Los Angeles, California Chapman College, Orange, California Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California San Francisco State University, San Francisco,
California San Jose State University, San Jose, California San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California University of California, Los Angeles Extension,
Los Angeles, California University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles 1975 California
State University, Los Angeles, California 1974 University
of California, Los Angeles Extension, Los Angeles, California
Selected Public and Museum
Collections
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco, California Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin,
Ohio Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington D.C. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California Bank of America, San Francisco, California Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Graphics
Archive Collection, Sukagawa, Fukushima, Japan California State University, Los Angeles, California Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Fredrick R. Weisman Foundation of Art, Los Angeles,
California Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Museums Collection,
Glasgow, Scotland Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Henry Art Museum, University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C. Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover,
New Hampshire & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford
University, Stanford, California Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,
California McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Smith College Museum of Art, North Hampton, Massachusetts Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington Tate Modern, London, England The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii The Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis,
Minnesota The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
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