TERRY MIURA STUDIO
Bio
Solo Exhibitions
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
Group Exhibitions
San Luis Obispo Plein Air 2007 San Luis Obispo, CA 2007 Artists’ Choice Award
Sonoma Plein Air 2007 Sonoma, Ca 2007
Northern Views Napa Valley Museum Biennial Napa, Ca 2007 Artists’ Choice Award
Carmel Art Festival Carmel, Ca 2007 Honorable Mention
Nature Revealed Anne Loucks Gallery Chicago 2007
Anne Loucks Gallery Chicago 2005
First Street Gallery Turlock, Ca 2005
J Cacciola Gallery New York 2002
Red Exploding Head Gallery Sacramento 2002
Thomas Reynolds Gallery San Francisco 1997
Murakami Gallery New York 1995
Murakami Gallery New York 1994
Blue Mountain Gallery New York 1994
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.
Currently he is working on a series of landscapes which explore the relationship between memory, emotions, and identity. "Although they're still very much representational," says Miura, "they're not about specific locations. Well, actually they are, but the locations are found in the viewer's memories. Not out there in the physical world. "
His works are represented by Thomas Reynolds Gallery in San Francisco, Anne Irwin Gallery in Atlanta, Anne Loucks Gallery in Chicago, First Street Gallery in Turlock, Ca. and California View Fine Arts in Los Gatos..