TERRY  MIURA  STUDIO

Solo Exhibitions

Back to the City                        Thomas Reynolds Gallery             San Francisco           2009

Backroads                                 Exploding Head Gallery                Sacramento              2007

Beyond the California Sky        Thomas Reynolds Gallery             San Francisco           2006

30 Days In Umbria                    Exploding Head Gallery                Sacramento              2005

A New Path                               Thomas Reynolds Gallery            San Francisco           2004

Arcadia                                      Exploding Head Gallery                Sacramento              2004

Metropolis                                  Exploding Head Gallery               Sacramento               2002

Homage                                    Thomas Reynolds Gallery             San Francisco          2002

New York                                  2237 Gallery                                  Sacramento              2001

Midtown                                    Thomas Reynolds Gallery             San Francisco          2000

Andante                                    Thomas Reynolds Gallery             San Francisco          1998

Urban Passages                       Thomas Reynolds Gallery             San Francisco          1997

Venezia                                     Murakami Gallery                          New York                 1995

Shades of Gray                         Aquarelle                                       New York                 1993

 

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010           Sonoma Plein Air, Sonoma, CA                                         Second Place Award

                   Kevin Courter and Terry Miura: Two Painters of Northern California

                   Holton Studio, Emeryville, CA

                 

2009            Napa Valley Art Festival, Napa CA                                   Artist’s Choice Award

                    Waterways, Knowlton Gallery, Lodi CA

                    Vanishing Barns, Anne Irwin Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

2008            Russian River Plein Air, Christopher Queen Gallery        First Place, People’s Choice Awards        

                    Carmel Art Festival, Carmel, CA                                       Jennifer Hill Award

                    Telluride Plein Air, Telluride, CA

                    Napa Valley Art Festival, Napa CA

                    San Luis Obispo Plein Air, San Luis Obispo, CA

2007            Carmel Art Festival, Carmel, CA                                      Honorable Mention

                    San Luis Obispo Plein Air, San Luis Obispo                    Artist’s Choice Award

                    Sonoma Plein Air, Sonoma, CA           

                   Northern Views, Napa Valley Museum Biennial               Artist’s Choice Award

                   Nature Revealed, Anne Loucks Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005            Anne Loucks Gallery, Chicago, IL 

                    Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA

                    Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco, CA

        

2002            J Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY

                    Red, Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA

1997            Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1995            Murakami Gallery, New York, NY994

1994            Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY

                    Murakami Gallery, New York, NY

                                                       

Collections

The Smithsonian Institute            Washington, DC

 

New School for Social Research  New York

 

Banana Republic                         New York

 

Market Bar                                   San Francisco

Partial List of Clients (illustration)

                                                 

Time, Inc                                      Newsweek    

            

Scholastic, Inc                              BusinessWeek   

      

Discover                                       Smithsonian Institution  

                                       

Sports Illustrated                          The New York Times  

The Los Angeles Times               Viking Penguin  

Harper Collins                               IBM

Citibank                                         Random House  

Time Warner                                 Sony Entertainment  

GRP Records                               Ziff Davis

Bozell Worldwide                          The Boston Globe

(b.1964) After graduating from Art Center College of Design in 1990, Terry Miura headed out to New York City to pay his dues. There he spent six years working as a freelance illustrator, creating imagery for such clients as Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Random House, GRP Records, just to name a few.

In between illustration deadlines, he painted his beloved New York City, and began a career as a painter by showing his work in neighborhood cafes, hair salons, juried shows--all of which were plentiful in the Big Apple. Before long one of his cityscapes was noticed by a gallery owner, and he had his first 'real' show in 1995.

After returning to the West Coast in 1996, he continued to paint and show New York-inspired cityscapes which were very well received, but as he no longer lived in the big city, his art began to change as well.

In 2001 his family moved to Fair Oaks, California, where he was immersed in the diverse landscapes of Northern California. With the mountains and hills of the Sierras and the rivers and valleys all around him, he turned to landscape painting which opened a whole new world of creative endeavors.

“I read in many a landscape painter’s statement that they paint the great outdoors because they love being out there in nature, or that they’re celebrating the Glory of our Creator... but I can’t relate to any of that,” Miura laughs. “I’m interested in the language of landscape painting, and how I might use it to explore the mysteries of emotions, memories, and identity.”

To that end, Miura does not limit himself to painting traditional landscapes. “I’m looking for subtle emotional responses, “ he explains. “I don’t get that from just trees and rivers. Buildings, people, atmosphere, light... any subject can trigger an emotional response. I’m perpetually trying to figure out what that trigger is.”

His works are represented by Thomas Reynolds Gallery in San Francisco, Anne Irwin Gallery in Atlanta, Anne Loucks Gallery in Chicago, Sekula’s in Sacramento, and Holton Studio in Emeryville, Ca