Ron Terada

Ron Terada was born in 1969 in Vancouver. He received a fine arts diploma from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 1991 (then Emily Carr College of Art and Design) and taught there from 1998-2007. In 2011, he had a solo exhibition at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and his exhibition I Am What I Am, which opened at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom before touring to the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta and the Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, United Kingdom in 2010 will open at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House at University of Toronto. He received a public commission for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games and is currently working on a new commission at Etablissement d'en face Projects, Brussels. Terada's recent group exhibitions include It Is What It Is, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2010); Morality, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2009), Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland (2009); Voight-Kampff, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver (2008); Words Fail Me, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan (2007); Stay Away From Lonely Places (2006), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; and You Have Left the American Sector (2005), Art Gallery of Windsor. Terada was a recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award, Canada Council for the Arts (2006); and the VIVA Award, Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation (2004); and was nominated for a Sobey Art Award in 2007.