RESUMÉ
1936
Born in Onomichi, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan. Japanese American artist.
EDUCATION:
2016
Doctor degree of fine arts, Otis College of Art and design, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Studied at Son Bisente print school in Florence, Italy.
1964-68
M.F.A and B.F.A., Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
1963-1964
Studied at Art Center, Los Angeles, CA.
1961-1962
Diploma, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA.
1954-59
B.A. Aesthetics, Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023
Masami Teraoka: Catharine Clark Gallery (Upcoming )
Masami Teraoka: ABC-Arte One Of, Milan, Italy (Upcoming)
2022
Masami Teraoka: The Last Swan Lake, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2017
Masami Teraoka: Selected Works (1972 -2002) From Private Collections, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Floating Realities: The Art of Masami Teraoka, Nicolas and Lee Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
Dr. Masami Teraoka: Part I: Early Work; AIDS Series and Tapestries, Koa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Dr. Masami Teraoka: Part II, Angels and Transgressors, Koa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2015
Masami Teraoka: Feast of Fools: The Triptych Paintings of Masami Teraoka, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu Hawaii.
2014
Masami Teraoka: Inversion of The Sacred/The Cloisters Last Supper Triptych Series, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas.
2013
Masami Teraoka: Cloisters Inquisition, Art Amalgamated, Chelsea, New York, New York.
2012
Masami Teraoka: The Last Supper Series, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Masami Teraoka: New Albion Gallery, Sydney, Australia. Exhibition catalog by Doug Hall, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
2011
Masami Teraoka: The Last Supper Series, Samuel Freeman, Santa Monica, California.
2010
Masami Teraoka: Inversion of the Sacred, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2009
Globalization, HIV & a Green Tomorrow? Watercolor Paintings of Masami Teraoka, 1970s, Banafshe Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2008
Masami Teraoka: The Cloisters Confessions, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
2007
Masami Teraoka: Venus and Pope, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Correspondence: Masami Teraoka and Ukiyo-e, Palo Alto Cultural Center, California.
Drawing on the Past: The Art of Masami Teraoka. Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, California.
2006
Masami Teraoka: Selected Prints. University of Oregon, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon.
2004
Masami Teraoka: New Work, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas Perils and Pleasures: Tales from Masami Teraoka.
2003
Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, Minnesota.
Masami Teraoka: A New Wave, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
U.S. Inquisition, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2002
Masami Teraoka: Works on Paper 1972, 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.
1999
Ascending Chaos: Marierier af Masami Teraoka, Frederiks Bastion, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Masami Teraoka: 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.
Masami Teraoka: 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: 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.
1995
Masami Teraoka, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, New York.
1994
Masami Teraoka, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, New York.
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, UK.
1991
Masami Teraoka: New Work, Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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; Exhibition traveled to: Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, Alabama; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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, 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: Works in Progress, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1988
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, Alabama.
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.
1982
Masami Teraoka, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1981
Masami Teraoka: The Takeover of East and West, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1979
Masami Teraoka, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Exhibition traveled to Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii; Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California and Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Downtown Center, San Francisco, California.
Masami Teraoka, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1977
Masami Teraoka, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California.
1976
Masami Teraoka: La Brea Tar Pits suite, at Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota.
1975
Recent Work by Masami Teraoka, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1973
Masami Teraoka, David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1972 Masami Teraoka, International Museum of Erotic Art, San Francisco, California.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2014
Graphic Impact of Japanese Edo Prints, Singapore Tyler Print Institution/STPI, Singapore.
American Contemporary Art Giants, Nara Prefecture Museum, Nara, Japan.
At the Mirror: Reflections of Japan in 20th Century Prints, Denver Art Museum. Denver, Colorado.
2013
Mori Art Museum: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition/Love Ten, Tokyo, Japan.
The Contemporary Museum Biennial Artists Invitational Exhibition, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
2010
Rubbers: The Life, History & Struggle of Condom, The Museum of Sex, New York, New York.
2009
The Other Mainstream II: Selection from the Mikki and Stanly Weithorn Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Temple, Arizona.
2008
Masami Teraoka, California State Polytechnic University Gallery, Pomona, California.
2007
Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, Nordic Watercolor Museum, Skarhamn, Sweden.
Contemporary Art: Featuring Masami Teraoka and Neo Rauch, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Manifestation of Contemporary Art in Iran, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran.
2006
The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art for Contemporary Art (GOMA), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Smithsonian Art Museum Reopening: The Museum's Permanent Collection Exhibition, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia.
Reconstructing Memories: A Discourse of Traces and Fragments, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement, American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC.
2005
San Jose Museum of Art 35th Anniversary: 35 x 35: Thirty-five Gifts for Thirty-five Years Exhibition. Francisco de GOYA: Los Caprichos & Here comes the Bogey-Man, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, New York.
Finesse, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
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, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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.
2003
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.
Gyroscope, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
2002
177th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, New York.
2001
1010, 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.
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.
Other Narratives, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas.
Spinal Epidural, Please!. Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1998
20th Century Masterworks, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, 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.
Permanent Collection, 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.
Made to Order: America's Most Wanted Painting, Alternative Museum, New York, New York.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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; Exhibition traveled to:
1994
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.
Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art 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 Inter Cultura, San Francisco, California; 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
20th International Biennial of Graphic Art, International Center for Graphic Art, Tiboli, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
45th 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, District of Columbia.
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, California.
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, Philadelphia.
American Kabuki/Oishiiwa, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York.
1988
Preview '89, Ianetti-Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii.
1987
The Avant-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
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.
El Arte Narrativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; Exhibition traveled to: Institute for Art and Urban Resources Inc, Long Island City, New York.
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, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, 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.
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
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
In the Japanese Tradition, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
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.
Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Charles H. McNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa.
SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS, PRODUCTION, PUBLICATIONS
2017 - 2019
Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, New York, NY
Lee Krasner Life Time Achievement Award, New York. NY.
Masami Teraoka: Producer for Pussy Riot/Tempest at Honolulu Art Museum School, Honolulu, HI
2016
Doctor degree of fine Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA.
2015- 2018
Jackson Pollock Foundation 3 years consecutive grants, New York, NY
Pollock and Krasner Life Time Achievement Award, New York, NY
2006
Jennifer Howard Distinguished Artist in Residence, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California.
2004
Ward Lucas Lectureship in the Arts, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.
Otis College of Arts and Design/Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award, Los Angeles, CA.
1993
American Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.
I991
Residency at Tyler Graphics Ltd, Mt. Kisco, CT.
1989
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist’s Fellowship, Washington, DC.
1985
American Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.
1980
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist’s Fellowship, Washington, DC.
1979
Victorian College of Arts, Artist-in residence, Melburne, Victoria, Australia.
1978
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Kay Nielsen Memorial Purchase Award through the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, California.
LECTURES
2014
Art Talk: Inversion of the Sacred, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas.
2007
Art Talk, Honolulu Academy of Art, Hawaii.
Art Talk, Hawaii State Foundation of Public Art, Honolulu, Hawaii. Visiting artist lecture with Masami Teraoka, October 2.
Pacific Light: California Watercolor
Refracted, 1907 – 2007, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, September.
Masami Teraoka in Conversation with Alison Bing, Drawing on the Past: The Art of Masami Teraoka, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA.
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
The 41st Annual Ward Lucas Lecture in the Arts, September 2004Masami Teraoka with Lynda Hess: Perils and Pleasures /Tales from Masami Teraoka 1976 –
2003
Carleton College Art Gallery, 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.
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.
1979
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
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, California.
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.
1975
California State University, Los Angeles, California.
1974
University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Extension, 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
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.
1966
California Small Images, California State, Los Angeles, California.
Charles H. McNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa.
SELECTED Youtube, Film, Catalogs, Books & DVD:
2014
Youtube: Art Talk at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary/Masami Teraoka Part I and II, Dallas, Texas.
2008
Diary of Masami Teraoka, by Bettina Langeland and Sylvia Stiglic
CATALOGS AND PUBLICATIONS:
2018
Teraoka: Floating Realities, The Art of Masami Teraoka, Publisher California State University Fullerton, CA.
2007
Ascending Chaos: The Art of Masami Teraoka 1966-2006 by Catharine Clark. Alison Bing, Eleanor Heartney, Kathryn A. Hoffmann.
1997
Masami Teraoka: From Tradition to Technology, the Floating World Comes of Age by John Stevenson, Toshio Hara director of Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Lynda Hess, Masami Teraoka.
Publisher: University of Washington Press, Seattle and Pamela Auchincloss, Arts Management, New York.
1988
Waves and Plagues: The Art of Masami Teraoka by Howard A. Link An exhibition catalog. Publisher: The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
2003
Masami Teraoka: Cloning Eve by Lynda Hess, DVD.
1996
Paintings By Masami Teraoka by James T. Ulak, Alexandra Munroe, Lynda Hess and Masami Teraoka, an exhibition catalog. Publisher Smithsonian Institute of Asian Art, DC.
SELECTED PUBLIC AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
Auckland 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
Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Graphics Archive Collection, Sukagawa, Fukushima, Japan
California State University, Los Angeles, California
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
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 Museum of Art, 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.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2014
Zotos, John; Review: Masami Teraoka: Inversion of the Sacred. Mar 27, Art, North Texas, TX. http://artsandculturetx.com/masami-teraoka-inversion-of-the-sacred/
Interview: Art Matters Radio TV: Artist Masami Teraoka, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihAJnfiuaOQ&feature=youtu.be
Smart, Loren; Review: Masami Teraoka's Inversion of the Sacred Brings Geishas to the Vatican by, Dallas, TX, http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/mixmaster/2014/03/masami.php
Hamlin, Jesse: Big-name artists at Sonoma State for 'West Coast Ink' show, Published March 19. http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Big-name-artists-at-Sonoma-State-for-West-Coast- 5332083.php#page-1
Graphic Impact of Japanese Edo Prints at STPI by Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop |, Singapore. Blouin Artinfo, New York, NY. http://sea.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1042626/graphic-impact-of- japanese-edo-prints-at-stp!
2013
Interview by Mori Art Museum, The 10the Anniversary Exhibition, “Love Ten”, Tokyo, Japan
Teraoka Masami: "All You Need Is LOVE" Artist Interview #11, https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=NN59SHHafi0
Interview by Asaka, Sawako PEN magazine Editor, Tokyo, Japan.
Interview by Tomosha Publishing Company, Tokyo, Japan.
Shows That Matter: Ukiyo-e Masterworks and Their Modern Heirs at Japan Society, Blouin Artinfo, New York, New York, http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/878805/shows-that-matter-ukiyoe- masterworks-and-their-modern-heirs
The Work of Masami Teraoka, Juxtapoz; http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/the-work-of-masami- teraoka
2012
Masami Teraoka: Interview with John Rabe for KPCC Off Ramp, Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles, California.
McDonald, John: Review; Foreign Affairs, The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday paper June 2.
Frew, Wendy: Interview; Where Woodstock meets woodblock, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 23, Australia, http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/where-woodstock-meetswoodblock- 20120522-1z36j.html#ixzz1vvzo8HhK
Watson, Brownwyn; Review: Masami Teraoka fires rubber bullets to get AIDS message across BY: From: The Australian June 02, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/masamiteraoka- fires-rubber-bullets-to-get-aids-message-across/story-fn9n8gph-1226374966512# AFP/Agence France-Presses. France -
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Honolulu - http://entertainment.sections.civilbeat.com/post/24506246061/from-hiroshima-tohawaii- artist-teraoka-looks-to-asia
San Francisco- http://sanfrancisco.localme.me/art/from-hiroshima-to-hawaii-artist-teraoka-looksto- asia
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Masami Teraoka: Mashing the Sacred, Profane, and the Macabre by Alanna Martinez, Art Amalgamated, Chelsea, New York, New York.
2011
Under the “Big Black Sun” at MOCA by Tyler Green, Los Angeles, California.
2010
Youtube: Masami Teraoka on Japanese Screen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGBiMdZxJoc
Masami Teraoka: The Cloisters Last Supper, Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles, California.
2009
Hamshahri, newspaper August 27th, "Requesting Your Green Arrival" invitation to exhibition: “Globalization, HIV, & a Green Tomorrow?”
Featured in Tandis Magazine, Fall issue, 2009 “Globalization, HIV, & a Green Tomorrow?”
Watercolor Paintings of Masami Teraoka, 1970s, curated by Marjan Vayghan at Banafshe Gallery, Tehran, Iran. Fall 2009.
2008
Heartney , Eleanor; Essay: Art & Today, pg. 372, image, Published by Phaiden Press, Limited, London, UK.
Miles, Christopher, Artforum Review: Masami Teraoka,
Artforumhttp://www.mutualart.com/OpenArticle/Masami-Teraoka/3012C17A94149593
2007
MacKey, Jan; When It Comes to Social Issues, Artist Masami Teraoka Likes to Play Hardball. POL Oxygen, Issue 21, pg. 58, Images 59. Australia.
Inefuku, Harrison W., "Pollution and Hybridity: Cultural Collision in Masami Teraoka's McDonald's Hamburgers Invading Japan (1974–5)" Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Visual Communication. Eau Claire, WI. 2007.
2006
Ohnuma, Keiko; Review: Art divines wellsprings of calamity, Star Bulletin, Honolulu, Hawaii
2005
Burgard, Timothy Anglin. "Masami Teraoka: The Unfolding Drama of AIDS." Masterworks of American Painting at the de Young, San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, pg. 469-472, 559-560.
Selz, Peter. Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond. Berkeley: University of California Press and San Jose Museum of Art,
2005
Bing, Allison. "Been There, Done That: Porn, Art, and Boredom." Eleven Eleven {1111}: Journal of Literature & Art, pg 94-97.
2004
"Collision of East and West Values." Los Angeles Times, 6/4/04.
Abril, Victoria. Landauer, Susan, Selections: The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection. San Jose Museum of Art.
2003
Baker, Kenneth: "National Reviews: Masami Teraoka." ARTnews, September
Asian Galleries: A New Light on Asian Art. Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, An exhibition catalog.
Kitchen Sink, "The Bigger Picture: Painting and Politics," Summer.
"The Paper Chase." Art on Paper 7, no.6 April, pg. 38
2002
Baker, Kenneth: "Teraoka survey shows how he marries satire with creativity." San Francisco Chronicle, March 9.
Ballatore, Sandy. "Masami." Art World. Artweek, Los Angeles, California.
2001
Heartney, Eleanor. "Pictures from an Inquisition." Art in America, April, 92-97.
Masami Teraoka. Honolulu: The Contemporary Museum Biennial of Hawaii Artists, Honolulu, Hawaii.
1999
Friis-Hansen, Dana. Other Narratives. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum. An exhibition catalog.
1998
Arenas, Amelia; Why is this art? A Guide for the Bewildered. Tankosha Publishing, Chihara, Michelle.
"A 'Floating World' Comes of Age." New Haven Advocate, June 18.
Baker, Kenneth: "Masami Teraoka," ARTnews, January. Birke, Judy; "At Yale, traditional Japanese art, updated and Americanized."
New Haven Register, June 21. Hunt, David. "A Vocabulary of Images." Asian Art News, September/October, 60-63.
1997
Tomita, Satoko, Tadashi Kobayashi and Toshiaki Minemura. Let's Go Ukiyo-e: Contemporary Art and Ukiyo-e Meet. Mitaka City Gallery of Art, An exhibition catalog. Mitaka, Japan.
"Samurai goes 20th century in Japanese-American's art." The Times, October 24. Bone, Robert W; "Artist of the Floating New World: His Sexually explicit work mimics old Japanese styles, but Teraoka is a thoroughly modern American."
San Francisco Chronicle, October 19-25. Bonetti, David; "Teraoka twists tradition: AIDS a key theme in modern take on 19 th century prints."
San Francisco Examiner, November 7. Carroll, James and Hua Hsu. "The Geisha Has a Message." Asian Week, November 13-19.
"Masami Teraoka rides his version of latter-day Pop into the ground." S!eattle Post-Intelligencer, February 28.
1996
Jenkins, Mark. "A Japanese Son Rises in the West: Painter Masami Teraoka Had to Come To America to Understand His Homeland." Washington Post, June 30.
Baysa, Jeff; Naked Truths. Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Art Gallery, March. An exhibition catalog. 36-37.
Dewan, Shaila. "Crossed Cultures: Is 'A' for Asia, America - or both?" Houston Press, July 4-10, 1996.
Faulders, Jane. "Modern dilemmas get classic treatment." Japan Times, October 5, pg.15.
Hess, Lynda. "The apple of his eye: Masami Teraoka's email age." Shambhala Sun 4, no. 6 (July 1996): 36-43.
"Panoramic Teraoka," ART Asia Pacific 3, no. 1. pg. 78-83. Brenda & Other Stories; Walsall, England: Walsall Museum and Art Gallery. An exhibition catalog. Walsall, UK
1995
CCGA Collection Catalogue. Fukushima, Japan: Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Graphic Archive Collection, 1995. An exhibition catalog.
Koplos, Janet; "20th Century AD," Art in America, January.
Baker, Kenneth: "Asian Immigrant Arts Revealed." San Francisco Chronicle, October 12,
Cahan, Susan and Zoya Kocur, eds.
Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education. New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Finley, Kathleen. "Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky." World Art, no. 1, pg. 93.
Hellekson, Diane. "Asian show holds up a mirror to our changing face." Saint Paul Pioneer Press, February 26.
1994
Munroe, Alexandra; Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky. New York: Harry N. Abrams. An exhibition catalog. McNaughton, Mary. Machida, Margo, Desai N. Vishakha, Tchen, and John Kuo Wei.
Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asia American Art. New York: The Asia Society and The New Press. An exhibition catalog.
Nanjo, Fumio and Friis-Hansen, Dana; Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan. An exhibition catalog.
Bald, Margaret; "Deconstructing the Asian 'Other'," Toward Freedom, June/July ‘94, pg. 21.
Cheng, Scarlett; "The Asia Society Goes Contemporary: A Major Show of Asian American Artists Comes to New York." Asian Art Review 4, no. 1, January/February: pg. 20-21
The Floating World: Japan's World of Transient Pleasures; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, An exhibition catalog.
Glowen, Ron "Matters of Survival: Asia/America” at the Tacoma Art Museum". Artweek 25, No. 21, November 3, pg 4.
"Multiculturama at the Asia Society: Juicy Brushstrokes." New York, Observer, April 4, pg.18.
Gott, Ted. Don't Leave Me This Way/Art in the Age of AIDS. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia. An exhibition catalog.
1993
Hume, Christopher. "Burden of AIDS Gives Rise to Art as Social Activism." The Toronto Star, December 2.
Hamilton, Annette. "Trading Image/Art at the 'Asia' Junction." Art and Australia, Australia 30, no. 3 (Autumn).
Farley, Christopher John. "The Art of Diversity." Time, Fall. First Biennial Exhibition. Honolulu: The Contemporary Museum Biennial of Hawaii Artists.
1992 Hess, Elizabeth. "Aquaculture." The Village Voice, June 16.
Fenner, Felicity. "Psalms and Sexism." The Sydney Morning Herald, August 15, pg. 44.
Hunt, Ken. "Mixing Primal and Modern." The Seattle Times, July 6. F5.
Levin, "Voice Choices: Masami Teraoka." Village Voice, June 23. New York
1991
Hansen, Dana-Friis; From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS. New York: Independent Curators. An exhibition catalog.
1990
Hess, Lynda; Masami Teraoka. New York: Pamela Auchincloss Gallery,
1990
An exhibition catalog. Jenson, James. 19th and 20th Century European and American Prints. Fukuoka
Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan.
Adachi, Christina; "Tops in Town this Month/ Waves and Plagues: The Art of Masami Teraoka." Today's Chicago; Woman, January pg.76.
Ament, Deloris Tarzan; "Images Make A Strong Impact in a Dramatic Japanese Style." The Seattle Times, December 12.
Feigel, Gabriele; "Zwischen den Kulturen: der Maler Masami Teraoka." Aufbau (New York), November 23.
Cotter, Holland. "Masami Teraoka at Pamela Auchincloss." Art in America, November, pg.193.
Hanson, Joyce. "Geisha Goes Snorkeling." New City (Chicago, Illinois), January 10.
Latempa, Susan. "Indomitable Spirit." L.A. Style, pg. 28-30.
Livet, Anne, ed. Art Against AIDS. New York: The American Foundation for AIDS Research in association with Studley Press.
1989
McDonnell, Suzanne. "East Meets Down Under." The Australian, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Kimmelman, Michael; "Bitter Harvest: AIDS and the Arts." New York Times, 3/19/89.
Adams, Phoebe-Lou; "Brief Reviews: Waves and Plagues: The Art of Masami Teraoka." The Atlantic, June.
Hopkins, Henry T. and Jim McHugh; California Painters: New Work. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.
Anderson, Ross C; Watercolor: Contemporary Currents. Los Angeles: Riverside Art Museum. An exhibition catalog.
Baker, Kenneth: "Otherworldliness of Masami Teraoka." San Francisco Chronicle, March 18.
Berkson, Bill. "Masami Teraoka at Iannetti Lanzone Gallery." Artforum, Summer, pg150.
San Jose Mercury News; "Traditional Style, Modern Issues.", March 31.
Dubin, Zan. "Teraoka's Exhibition Takes on AIDS." Los Angeles Times, March 19.
Hammond, Pamela. "Los Angeles: Masami Teraoka, Space Gallery." ARTnews 88, No. 1 (January 1989): 150.
Kimmelman, Michael. "An Approach to AIDS in a Japanese Tradition." New York Times, 2/24/89.
1988
Iwasa, Warren. "When Cultures Collide: The Art of Masami Teraoka." East West Magazine 8, no. 2 (Honolulu, Hawaii) Winter.
1987
Fox, Howard. Avant-Garde in the Eighties. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. An exhibition catalog.
Contemporary Southern California Art. Taiwan: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, An exhibition catalog.
1986
Betti, Claudia & Teel Sale. Drawing: A Contemporary Approach.
Holt Rinehart and Winston. The Biennale of Sydney; Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1986. Sydney, Australia, An exhibition catalog.
Davis, Douglas. "Where East Meets West." Newsweek, June 9, pg. 74
Degener, Patricia. "That Easy Japanese Synthesis of Audacious with Venerable." St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 25.
Friedman, Mildred, ed. Tokyo: Form and Spirit. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, in association with Harry N. Abrams. An exhibition catalog.
Gildea, Michael "East for the Eyes." L.A. Weekly, September 12-18.
East/West: Contemporary Asian-American Art in Los Angeles. Claremont, California: Galleries of the Claremont Colleges.
Ianco-Starrels, Josine. "Asia Meets America - A Blend of Traditions." Los Angeles Times, March 2.
1985
A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms. New York: Methuen, 1985.
Bermann-Enn, Beate; "Masami Teraoka," Artscene, February 1985.
Teraoka Erotica. Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 1985. An exhibition catalog.
1984
Frank, Peter. "Glimpsing the Nature of the True West." Newsday. New York, April 8.
1983
Albright, Thomas; "A California Satirist in the Japanese Tradition." San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, pg. 60.
Koren, Leonard. "Masami Teraoka: Ukiyo-e Pop Artist." Brutus (text in Japanese), December 15.
Atkins, Robert; "Gluttonous Geishas: Teraoka's Japanese Art with a Western Message."
Focus, San Francisco, California.
August, Lissa; Flanigan, James C.; "Western Artists Strut Their Stuff," People, March 14.
Berger, Leslie; "Visions of a New West." Washington Post, February 2.
Campbell, Mary.
"Teraoka's Works Meld East, West." Jacksonville Journal, February 24.
The Oregonian; "Western Artist Evoke Humor, Horror of New West." (Portland), February 8.
Fleming, Lee. "The Corcoran Biennial/Second Western States Exhibition." ARTnews 82, no. 5, May, pg.127.
Artspace Southwestern Contemporary Arts Quarterly (Albuqurque, New Mexico), Fall.
Glueck, Grace. "Two Biennials: One Looking East and the Other West." New York Times, March 27.
Masami Teraoka. Jacksonville Art Museum, 1983. An exhibition catalog. "Teraoka's Terrible Beauty." Images & Issues 3, No. 4, January/February, pg. 28-29.
1982
Gabrielson, Walter "Westward Ha!" Art in America 70, no. 1, January, pg.108-110.
1981
Decade: Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.
1980
Morse, Marcia. "Cultural Overload," Artweek (California), August 2, 1980, 3
Addiss, Stephen and Pat Fister; Katachi: Form and Spirit in Japanese Art. Albuquerque Museum, An exhibition catalog.
Albright, Thomas; "Steeped in Tradition - Perverse Versions of Modern Pop Art." San Francisco Chronicle, January 24.
Albright, Thomas; "A Collection of Clever Ideas." San Francisco Chronicle, April 15.
Curtis, Cathy; "Successful East-West Mix." Berkeley Gazette, March 30.
Burkhart, Dorothy. "East Collides with West in Japanese Art." San Jose Mercury News, April 3.
1979
Link, Howard A. Masami Teraoka. Whitney Museum of Art, 1979. New York. An exhibition catalog.
"McDonald's Hamburgers Invading Japan/Flying Fries." Los Angeles Times, November 18.
Lewis, Louise. "Art About Art." Artweek (California), January 27.
1978
Wortz, Melinda: "Masami Teraoka," ARTnews 77, no. 3 (March 1978).
1977
"Teraoka Surpasses, Warhol Fails." Los Angeles Free Press, March pg. 4-10.
Haggerty, Gerard. "The Bittersweet Teraoka." Artweek (California), March 12.
Hazlitt, Gordon. "Satires on a Kimono." ARTnews, May.
1976
Ballatore, Sandy; "Masami Teraoka's Cross-Cultural Art, An Exquisite Madness," Artweek, (California), January 10.
Wortz, Melinda. "The 'Cool School'," ARTnews ,
Summer. Marmer, Nancy. "L.A. 1976: The dark Underside." Artforum, Summer.
Ballatore, Sandy; " Masami Teraoka at Space. " Art in America, May/June. ----------. "Verbal Intentions, Visual Results." ARTnews, January.
1975
Seldis, Henry J. "The Creative Process in Words and Pictures." Los Angeles Times, November 16.
Alf, Martha; "Insight into Creativity." Artweek (California), November 22.
1974
Endfield, Cathy; "In the Japanese Tradition." Los Angeles Free Press, March 1.
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