Dean K Terasaki

MFA in Photography from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, May 1985.

BFA in Studio Art from University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, May 1978.

41st Center Annual | send me anything – juried exhibit, juror: Leo Hsu, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, June/Aug. 2024, catalog, award, and exhibition named for artwork.

Words and Pictures – juried online group exhibit, jurors: Alene Smithson and Hamidah Glasgow, Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO, May 2024, award.

A (Mad) Hatter’s Tea Party – juried group exhibit, jurors: Connie and A.O. Tucker, Herberger Theater Center, May-Aug. 2024.

Healing – Rethinking Gender: The Solari Collection and Us: History/Present – group exhibit, curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Northlight Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, Mar. 2024.

Veiled Inscriptions – solo exhibit, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ, Feb.-Mar. 2024.

23rd Annual Artlink Juried Exhibition – jurors: Cece Cole, Julio Morales, and Christian Ramirez, FOUND:RE,
Phoenix, AZ, catalog, Nov. 2023.

FOR NOW – a 3-person group exhibit, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ, Oct.-Nov. 2023.

Installation at the downtown Tempe Post Office in conjunction with the Moments, Memory and Time exhibition at Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ, Sept. 2023-Jan. 2024.

Center Forward – juried online group exhibit, jurors: Charles Guice and Hamidah Glasgow, Center for Fine Art
Photography, Ft. Collins, CO, August 2023, award.

Picturing Resistance – group exhibits, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ, Sept. 2022 and August 2023.

Revisiting the Family Album: Stories That Bind Us – juried online group exhibit, juror: Aline Smithson, Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO, June 2023.

All Eyes On You – juried group exhibit, jurors: Eye Lounge membership, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ, June 2023.

Arizona Photography Alliance Members Exhibitions – The Mood Room, Phoenix, Arizona, June 2021, May 2022, May 2023 (juror’s award by Gary Martelli), and April 2024.

No Strangers – group exhibits, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ, July 2021, April 2022 and January 2023.

The People’s Playground – 2-person exhibit with Robert Galloway curated by Elizabeth Allen, Northlight Gallery,
Phoenix, AZ, Feb. 2021.

Remaking America: Engaging in Public – group exhibit curated by Elizabeth Allen, Northlight Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, Nov. 2018.

Continuum – 2-person exhibit with Kermit Lee, Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ, Nov. 2016.

Transitions, Views Between Here and There – solo exhibit, the kitchenette, Phoenix, AZ, Nov. 2008.

Black Box – featured artist in group show, Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix, AZ, May 2008.

Border Justice – group show, ASU West, Phoenix, AZ, April 2008.

Spectra ’07 National Photography Triennial – juried exhibition, Peter MacGill, juror, Silvermine Guild Arts Center,
New Canaan, CT, Oct. 2007.

Storefronts – solo exhibit, the kitchenette, Phoenix, AZ, Oct. 2007.

Around the World in 40 Days – group show, Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix, AZ, Jan.–Feb. 2007

Latent Image – invitational group show, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, May-Aug. 2007, reviewed.

A Mirror in Guangdong – solo exhibit, the kitchenette, Phoenix, AZ, Sept. 2006.

Injustice – group show, Lords of Art Town, Phoenix, AZ, July 2006, reviewed.

Tablets, Notations and Lori’s Gift – solo exhibit, the kitchenette, Phoenix, AZ, July 2005.

Axes and Armatures – solo exhibit, Student Union Gallery, Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ, Mar. 2003.

Recent work – solo exhibit, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ, May 2002.

Transport – solo exhibit, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Mar. 2000.

Gila River Blues – solo exhibit, Burton Barr Public Library, Phoenix, AZ, Jan.-Feb. 1998.

Sentinels – solo exhibit, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, Sept.-Oct. 1997.

Current Works – juried exhibition, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO, Sept. 1995, award.

Latent August, the Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – juried exhibition, National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA, July-Sept. 1995, traveling.

Recent work – solo exhibit, Phoenix College, Phoenix, AZ, Mar. 1989.

Group show – Four Arts Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL, Aug. 1984.

Tracer – solo exhibit, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Apr. 1984.

Group show, Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA, Jan. 1983, reviewed.

The Four Corners Juried Exhibition of Photography – Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Jan. 1980, traveled to Mexico.

Programming Co-director, Arizona Photography Alliance, Phoenix, AZ, July 2022 – March 2024.

Residential Faculty in Photography, Art Department, Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ, (served as Art
Department Chair - 1995 to 1999, Photography Program Director - 2018 to 2020, Photography Program Coordinator - 1986 to 1995 and 1999 to 2006) Aug. 1986 - June 2020.

Community Curator Spotlight: Dean Terasaki on Memory and Mystery,  Densho Catalyst, July 2023.

AUS, AutraAlasia – volume no. 4–5, Moscow, Russia, April-May 2000.

‘The Photo Review,’ Eleventh Annual Competition – Langhorne, PA, Summer 1995, award.

Reading the News: Dean Terasaki’s Photomontages, ‘Artspace’ – Albuquerque, N.M., Spring 1985.

Arts Career Advancement Award – City of Phoenix, Dec. 2021.

Faces of Glendale – National Endowment for the Humanities / Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction grants, site co-coordinator, Nov. 2000 - April 2002.

Maricopa Community College District / Wuyi University Fellowship – travel and teaching exchange to Wuyi
University, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China; May-July 2000.

Maricopa Community College District Faculty Professional Growth Summer Project Grants – 1993, 1991 and 1990.

Medium Photo Portfolio Review – Medium Photo, San Diego, CA, 2024.

Finding Your Audience – La Luz online workshop with Mary Virginia Swanson and guests, 2022.

Digital Imaging – Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine, 1992.

Robert Heinecken and Joyce Neimanas – Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO, summer 1990.

Ralph Gibson, Linda Conner, and Peter deLory – Sun Valley Photography Workshops, summer 1976.

Veracity in an Age of Denial: instruction beyond the curriculum for the diverse community college population – Society for Photographic Education, Southwest Regional Meeting, Prescott, AZ, Oct. 1990.