Weston Teruya is an artist and arts policy advocate. He was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai‘i and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. As an artist, he has had solo exhibitions at Intersection for the Arts and Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco and Pro Arts in Oakland. Teruya has also exhibited at the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Southern Exposure in San Francisco, Longhouse Projects & the NYC Fire Museum in New York, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery in Tokyo, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and the Palo Alto Art Center. Weston was an Irvine Fellow at the Lucas Artist Residency of the Montalvo Arts Center, a 2009 Artadia awardee, a 2014 CCI Investing in Artists grantee, and one of the 2015 inaugural Art+Practice+Ideas artists-in-residence at Mills College. He is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Recology SF. Weston received an MFA in Painting and Drawing and MA in Visual & Critical Studies from California College of the Arts. He has a BA in Studio art and minor in Asian American Studies from Pomona College.

Alongside his studio practice, Weston is an appointed member of the Berkeley Civic Arts Commission where he chairs the grants committee and serves on the policy committee. He also worked for Community Investments /Cultural Equity Grants of the San Francisco Arts Commission for eight years.

Weston has curated exhibitions for Southern Exposure, Kearny Street Workshop, and the Berkeley Art Center and written for Hyphen Magazine. He is one third of Related Tactics, a collective of artists, writers, curators, and educators of color creating projects and opportunities at the intersection of race and culture.