Tetsu Okuhara was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1940 and lived in a Japanese internment camp in Colorado from 1942-1944. In the early 1970's Mr. Okuhara took thousands of detailed photographic images of his model and then wife Susan. For the past thirty years he continuously recreates and combines these contact prints producing composite portraits of Susan. His photomontages, created using a minimalist grid, are abstract, idealized, surreal, and sometimes symmetrical however they never lose sight of the importance of the human form.

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Born: March 3, 1940; Los Angeles, California

Education: Undergraduate study, University of Chicago; The Cooper Union, New York

Fellowships & Grant:
New York Foundation for the Arts
Yosemite Renaissance, California
Light Work, Syracuse, New York
National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Travel Grant to Japan
James D. Phelan Art Award, San Francisco, California
Intercambio, San Juan, Porto Rico
National Endowment for the Arts in photography
La Napoule Foundation/NEA, France
New York Foundation for the Arts
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
Creative Artist Public Service, New York
1973 Creative Artist Public Service, New York

Selected Exhibitions:
2001 "Tetsu Okuhara", Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California
"55 Photographs", 55 Mercer Gallery, New York
"Imprints", MMC Gallery, New York
"Small Works", New York University, New York
"Tetsu Okuhara", Fotomassan, Sweden
Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, California
"Tetsu Okuhara", Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
1996 "Photonominal", Forum Gallery, Jamestown, New York
1995 Gotlland Konst Museum, Sweden
1994 "ìPaintings", 55 Mercer Gallery, New York
"Tetsu Okuhara", Art Institute of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, California
1992 "The Ruttenberg Collection", The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1985 Witkin Gallery, New York
Vivianne Esders Gallery, Paris, France
1983 "Big Pictures by Contemporary Photographers", Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sebu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Mirrors and Windows", Museum of Modern Art, New York, exhibition traveled to Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; Walker Art Center, MN; JB Speed Art Center, KY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Krannert Art Museum, IL; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, VA; Milwaukee Art Center, WI
1974 "Tetsu Okuhara", Canon Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania