Dean Sameshima (b. 1971, Torrance, USA) was recently included in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2024), curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Soft Opening recently published being alone on the occasion of a solo exhibition of the same title at the gallery in London (2024), and a new book focused on two ongoing series of photographs will be published on the occasion of a solo exhibition with 5b in Glasgow later this spring.
Recent exhibitions include The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach (2025); Good or Trash, Paris (2025, solo); Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (2025, solo); Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2025); PPOW, New York (2024, solo); Museum of Art of São Paulo, São Paulo (2024); California Museum of Photography, Riverside (2024); ICA, Los Angeles (2024); Tina Kim Gallery, New York (2023); Queer Thoughts, New York (2023, solo); and Museum of Sex, New York (2023).
Sameshima’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art of São Paulo, São Paulo; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, Mead Art Museum, Amhearst and Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong. He was the 2022 recipient of The Artist Acquisition Club Award. The artist lives and works in Berlin.
Represented by Soft Opening, London