American, b. 1936
Masami Teraoka was born in 1936 in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan. He graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts in Aesthetics from Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan. Teraoka continued his education in Los Angeles, earning a Bachelor of Arts (1964) and a Master of Arts (1968) from Otis College of Art and Design. In 2016, Otis awarded Teraoka an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts. Teraoka’s work has also been featured in solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution; Asian Art Museum; Yale University Art Gallery; Honolulu Museum of Art; and the New Albion Gallery of New South Wales, amongst other venues. His work has also been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Bronx Museum, amongst other venues. Teraoka’s work is represented in more than 50 public collections worldwide, including the Tate Modern; National Gallery of Australia; Whitney Museum of American Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; among others. The artist lives and works in O‘ahu, Hawai’i, and has been represented by Catharine Clark Gallery since 1998.
