Artist Biography

Teruko Nimura is a visual artist based in Washington state. Her diverse multi-media practice includes installation, sculpture, drawing, video/performance, social and public art. She is interested in themes of interconnectedness, collective memory and trauma, cultural, racial, and female identity, motherhood, and the climate crisis. Her varied explorations of mediums and modes are united by an emphasis on process, with the use of multiples and repetition as ritualistic discovery.  She has an appreciation for the inherent language of materials  and the variations and flaws in handmade objects. 

Teruko received her BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from UT Austin. She has exhibited in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. She was an OX-Bow School of Art Fellow, a mentee artist in the City of Austin’s Launchpad program for emerging public artists, featured in the 2017 TX Biennial, and one of five Austin artists invited to create work for New York City Highline’s traveling joint art initiative  “New Monuments for New Cities.”  Since moving from Texas to Washington to be closer to family, she was selected as a 2020 Public Art Reaching Community artist with the City of Tacoma and will be exhibiting at the Bellwether Festival in Bellevue in 2021. She lives and works in University Place with her husband, two young children, and three cats.