Yuken Teruya is a Japanese born New York based artist born in 1973. He works with discarded papers that are representative of the consumption society: shopping bags from the main retails brands, the New York Times, Dollar bills, Monopoly bills, as well as toilet paper rolls.

He received his BFA from Tama Art University, Tokyo in 1996, and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2001. His work has been shown in several solo and group exhibitions worldwide, notably one-man shows include Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica; Dahlem Ethnological Museum/Asian Art Museum, Berlin; Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London; and The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo. Teruya participated to many important group exhibitions such as Paper at Saatchi Gallery, London (2013); the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012); Ties over Time: Japanese Artists and America at the US Ambassador’s House, Tokyo (2010); Hundred Stories about Love at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2009); The Shapes of Space at the Solomon Guggenheim, New York (2007); Greater New York 2005 at MoMA P.S.1, Queens, NY.

Teruya’s work is present is some of the most renown collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Guggenheim, New York; Flag Art Foundation, New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C.; the Charles Saatchi Collection, London; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; the Mori Art Museum, Japan.