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EDUCATION
MFA - Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
BFA - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
being alone, Soft Opening, London, UK
2023
being alone, Queer Thoughts, New York, NY
2017
647(a), Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2016
647(d), Gavalk Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Dean Sameshima: Public Sex, She Works Flexible Gallery, organized by Andy Campbell, Houston, TX
2013
Cruise or be Cruised, Galeria Raquel Ponce, Madrid, Spain
2011
FAGGOTS, Preteen gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
In Passing, two person exhibition with Michael Bevilacqua, The Flat, Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2008
Numbers II, (Ode to Johnny Rio)," Peres Projects, Los Angeles
Numbers II, (Ode to Johnny Rio)," Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2007
Numbers, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2006
Unknown Pleasures, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
2005
Young Men at Play II / Boys in My Bedroom, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Young Men at Play,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Outlaw II (Silverlake), aspreyjacques, London, UK
Outlaw, peres projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Art Statements, Art/33/Basel, Switzerland (catalog)
2001
He sang the soundtrack to my life: Too young to reason, too grown up to dream, Galerie Hohenlohe & Kalb, Vienna, Austria
Too young to reason, too grown up to dream, Low, Los Angeles, CA
1997
Wonderland, Gavlak Projects, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Venice, IT
Digital Capture: Southern California and the Origins of the Pixel-Based Image World, co-curated by April Baca and Nikolay Maslov, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA.
Scratching at the Moon, co-curated by Anna Sew Hoy and Anne Ellegood, ICA, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Revolt of the Body, curated by Simon Wu, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY
Radical Perverts: Ecstasy and Activism in Queer Public Space, 1975-2000, curated by Alexis Heller, Museum of Sex, New York, NY
Politiken der Berührung (Politics of Touch), curated by Maren Lübbke-Tidow and Rebecca Wilson, Amtsalon, Berlin, Germany
2022
Kino Roland, curated by Querformat, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, Kino Roland, Zurich, Switzerland
2021
Devastation, Queer Thoughts Gallery, New York, NY
Evidence: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
The Going Away Present, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Queer Visibility: Dean Sameshima and Anthony White, curated by Nina Bozicnik, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Traces on the Surfaces of the World, organized by Efrain Lopez, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Summer Group Exhibition, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Inaugural Exhibition, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Historias Da Sexualidade (Histories of Sexuality), curated by Pablo Leon de La Barra, Lilia Schwarcz, Camila Bechelany and Adriano Pedrosa, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Flaming June VII (Flaming Creatures), Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
Not I, We, curated by Julie Russo and Lauren Wood, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Art AIDS America, (traveling) Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Summer Group Exhibition, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
Bootleg T-shirt Show II, Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY
Serialize, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Between Two Worlds, Jacob Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
Ten Year Anniversary, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection, curated by Mario Codognato, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (catalog)
2012
Bootleg T-shirt Show, Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY
2013
A Point of View: Selected Gifts from the Laurence A. Rickels Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2011
a painting show, curated by Aaron Moulton, Autocenter, Berlin, DE
The New Disorder, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece
Coming After, Curated by Jon Davies, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Queer Chapel, Presented by Septembre editions, Paris, France
2010
FATHER, curated by Diego Singh, Mendes Wood, São Paulo, Brazil
Cruise or be Cruised, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
Sweet & Saccharine, curated by Ana Finel Honigman, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany
Summer Camp, Lost Horizon/Headshop, curated by Billy Miller, Exile Gallery, Berlin, Germany
A about bauhaus...harm neu tues, curated by Matthew Brandt, Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art, Culver City, CA
Queer Zines, organized by Printed Matter Inc., OCA, Oslo, Norway
ANTIFOTO, fotofest 101, curated by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Germany (catalog)
2009
Minneapolis, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch Berlin von Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany (DVD/catalog)
Youthful Gazes, Curated by Kim Light, Nayla Hadchiti, Maya Karanouh, Hannah Algee, Kim Light / Lightbox, New York, NY (catalog)
Scorpio's Garden, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany (catalog)
GebaGeba, Misako & Rosen Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Can't Rape the Willing, curated by Kathryn Garcia and Sarvia Jasso, Second Floor, Brooklyn, New York
Art-Read, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New York
Dark Rooms//Homme Made, curated by Avi Feldman, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery
Excavating the Structure of a Bootleg Video, presented by B'L'ing, John Connely Presents, New York, NY
2008
FTW/DIY (1995-2004) RIP, curated by Nicole Panter, MOV-In Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Formal Issue, curated by Jeffrey Ian Rosen, AKTA, Tokyo, Japan
Is/Not: LOVE in the USA: An exhibition of artists from Los Angeles, curated by Brooke Lynn McGowan, Louise T Blouin Institute, London, UK
Summer Video Program, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Read My Lips, Peres Projects Berlin, curated by Dean Sameshima
Auslaender in Berlin, CITRIC Gallery, Brescia, Italy, curated by Margherita Belaief
SGOZZATA, curated by Margherita Belaief & John Kleckner, Berlin, Germany
2007
Public Park, Scoops, Los Angeles
Printed Matter: New York Art Book Fair, New York, NY
Beyond the Zero, Peres Projects, Athens, Greece
Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2007
ARTE E OMOSESSUALITÀ. DA VON GLOEDEN A PIERRE ET GILLES, works form the Ernesto Esposito collection, Palazzina Reale, Florence, Italy
Natural Geographic, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles, CA
Global Cities, Tate Modern, London, U.K.
Mario Testino : Mario Testino at Home, Yvon Lambert, New York
Blow Both of Us, curated by Shannon Ebner and Adam Putnam, Participant Inc., New york
2006
Public Storage, Temple Hospital, curated by John Pearson, Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA
Glory Hole, curated by Pablo de la Barra, Renegade City, London, UK
Many, Many Guys and Girls, All Real Beauties, curated by Julian Hoeber, Circus of Books, LA, CA
Swallow Harder: Selections from the Collection of Ben and Aileen Krohn Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2005
Log Cabin, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Artists Space, New York
Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent
Contemporary Art, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana and San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
2004
Will Boys Be Boys? Questioning Adolescent Masculinity in Contemporary Art, curated by Shamim Momim, The Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
The Stars of Track and Field are Beautiful People, Changing Role Move Over Gallery, Naples, Italy
10 Year Anniversary, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003
The rules that everyone will follow from this day forth, peres projects, Los Angeles, CA
Inaugural Exhibition, Golinko Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hovering, peres projects, curated by Daniele Balice & Anne Du Boucheron, peres projects, Los Angeles, CA
Portraits, Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Artists, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Domestic Sprawl: Recent Los Angeles Photography, curated by Andrea Feldman, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
Bystander, curated by John Connelly, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, curated by Simon Wachsmuth & Franziska Lesak, Hohenlohe & Kalb, Vienna, Austria
LA on My Mind: Recent Acquisitions, curated by Michael Darling, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Andere Raume/Other Spaces, curated by Yilmaz Dziewior, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
Nachgemacht: reproduzierte Naturlichkeit-simulierte Natur, curated by Martin Prinzhorn, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Inframince, curated by David Bussel, Cabinet, London, England
Who Can it Be, New L.A. Portraiture, curated by Jill Martinez, Los Angeles, CA
Song Poems, curated by Steven Hull, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (catalogue)
2001
Scenes, curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY
Song Poems, curated by Steven Hull, Cohan, Leslie & Browne, New York, NY
Two Friends and so on..., curated by Rob Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Artificial Real, Low, Los Angeles, CA
Sightings, curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, NY
Urban Hymns, curated by Michael Darling, Cal State Los Angeles, CA
Carpooling From L.A., curated by Tam Van Tran, Asian American Art Center, New York, NY
1999
2nd Annual Wight Biennial UCLA, curated by Delia Brown, Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Good Vibrations, curated by Sarah Gavlak, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Mourning After: Art of Loss, curated by Susette Min, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Flaming June II, Gavlak Projects/Works on Paper Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Transit, curated by Margaret Morgan, Miller/Durazo, Los Angeles, CA
antiworld, curated by Marcos Rosales, gallery:untitled, Dallas, Texas
1998
Hollywood Premiere, curated by Popular Mechanics, Hollywood Premiere Hotel, Hollywood, CA
1997
I'm Still in Love With You, curated by Steven Hull, 20th Century Women's Club, Eagle Rock, CA (catalogue/LP)
Flaming June, curated by Sarah Gavlak, The Art Exchange, New York, NY
1993
The Autobiography of Difference, curated by Karin Higa, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY/PUBLICATIONS
2024
Moore, Sam, An Introductory Guide to the Seductive Queer Art of Dean Sameshima, Another Magazine, April 30, 2024
Needham, Alex, Police busts, porn cinemas and glory holes: the wild art of sexual outlaw Dean Sameshima, The Guardian, April 29, 2024
Jennings, Will, The art of being alone: watching porn with Dean Sameshima, Reccessed Space, April 27, 2024
Jansen, Charlotte, Foreigners Everywhere: Venice Biennale becomes a cradle of fraught purpose, STIR, Apr 23, 2024
Burns, Sean, Central Pavilion Review: A Celebration of ‘Outsiders’ That Lacks a Punch, Frieze, April 18, 2024
Duron, Maximiliano, At the Venice Biennale’s Contemporary Showcase, Living Artists Examine Queer and Indigenous Legacies , Art News, April 17, 2024
Dorris, Jesse, How “Radical Perverts” Created Space for Queer Activism, Surface Magazine, March 14, 2024
Duron, Maximiliano, Asian American Art Survey in LA Highlights the Power of Artists Living in Community, Art in America, March 2024
2023
Colucci, Emily Where Have All the Perverts Gone?: The Museum of Sex Rekindles Late-20th Century Queer Filth in “Radical Perverts”, FilthyDreams.org
Moreno, Paul, Where I Find Ourselves A reaction to: “Tom of Finland: Highway Patrol, Greasy Rider, and Other Selected Works,”at David Kordansky Gallery (January 13–February 25, 2023); Felix Gonzalez-Torres, at David Zwirner (January 12–February 25, 2023); Dean Sameshima: Being Alone, at Queer Thoughts (February 1–March 18, 2023), New Art Examiner, Spring 2023
Colucci, Emily, A Session of Porn Therapy in Dean Sameshima’s “Being Alone” at Queer Thoughts, filthydreams.org
Touch. Politiken der Berührung (Politics of Touch) catalogue, EMOP (European Month of Photography), Berlin, Germany
2021
Rimanelli, David, Indifference and Repetition: David Rimanelli on Dean Sameshima‘s „Outlaw“, 2003, Artforum, May 2021
Ricco, John Paul, Queer Solitude: Dean Sameshima‘s being alone, A/R No. 4
2020
Bound Together: Leather, sex, archives and contemporary art by Andy Campbell, Manchester University Press
2019
Queer Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ by Andy Campbell, Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers
Utopia Centerfolds At Play, CONVOKE, New York City, NY
Cock in a Box, Darin Klein & Friends, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Historias Da Sexualidade (Histories of Sexuality) catalogue, MASP, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
2015
QUEER, introduction by Ana Finel Honigman, Aperture, Spring 2015
HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection, UMMA BOOKS
2013
Art and Queer Culture, edited by Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, Phaidon Press
2010
Zeitgeist. Variations & Repetitions, Save As... Publications, Barcelona, Spain
Bollen, Christopher, "Rated Art", Interview, December/January
2009
The 2009 Excellent People Award..., theexcellentpeople.wordpress.com
Scorpio's Garden, Verlag der Buchhandlung, Walther Konig, Koln, 2009, exhibition catalog
AUS KUNSTLERSICHT / ACCORDING TO THE ARTISTS (13 Questions, 51 Interviews), Edited by Harriet Haussler & Aeneas Bastian, Kerber Art Publishers, Berlin/Bielefeld/Leipzig, 2009
647(a), published by Dynasty Zine, Athens, Greece, 2009, artist book
2008
Schlaegel, Andreas, FLASH ART, review, May/June 2008
Queer Zines, (exhibition catalog), Philip Aarons and AA Bronson, editors
New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc.
Dean SAMESHIMA: Numbers II (Ode to Johnny Rio) (artist book), DIS Publications
Bergstrom-Katz, Sasha, “Interview with Dean Sameshima” www.artslant.com
Finel Honigman, Ana "Dean Sameshima at Peres Projects" ART IN AMERICA, June 23, 08
2007
Allsop, Laura, "What He Loved", ART REVIEW issue #10: , April 23, 07: 34
Instilled and Lost (catalogue), Peres Projects, Los Angeles/Berlin
Finel Honigman, Ana, "Dean Sameshima Talks to Ana Finel Honigman"
2006
Taft, Catherine, “A Lover’s Discourse”, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, Artforum.com
Rosen, Misako, "Art", Tokion vol. 11, no. 53
Yamashita, Shiyo, "Photographers 002", Esquire, November 2006, Vol. 20, no. 11
LA Artland: Contemporary Art From Los Angeles, Black Dog Publishing
Vitamin PH: New Perspectives in Photography, Phaidon Publishng
i-D magazine #264, "The Upbeat Issue"
Freddie, artist book, DIS Publications
2005
Walkowiak, Jeffrey: 9th Baltic Triennial, “BMW: Black Market World” catalogue
Badi Magazine, June 2005
Seijo, artist book, DIS Publications
Ivan, artist book, DIS Publications
Young Men at Play #1 & #2, artists' books, DIS Publications
Cotter, Holland, "Log Cabin", New York Times, Friday January 28, 2005
Visionaire #46, “Uncensored” issue, curated by Mario Testino
2004
i-D magazine, "Celebration" issue, December/January 2004/05
Hakim, Jaime, "Dean Sameshima", Attitude Magazine, October, 2004
Hidden Histories: 20th Century Male Same Sex Lovers in the Visual Arts, curated by Michael Petry, ArtMedia Press (catalogue)
Figures of Lust, Furtively Encountered in the Nights, self-published artist book
Pethick, Emily, Critic's Pick, Artforum.com, April, 2004
Herbert, Martin, TimeOut London, (review), April 21-24, 2004
Martinez Kyrgowkski, Jill, "Artworker of the Week no. 85", KultureFlash, April 21, 2004
Ratnam, Niru, "say hi to photographer dean sameshima, he's hot", i-D Magazine, March 2004
BUTT Magazine, "Deaf Dude", (artists' page), Spring 2004
2003
CSNA, (artists' page), issue #1, Fall 2003
CREAM 3, curated by Ruben Gallo, Phaidon Press
2002
Wood, Catherine, "Inframince", Artext, Fall 2002, #78
Loss: The Politics of Mourning, edited by David L. Eng & David Kazanjian,
Remains to be Seen: Reading the Works of Dean Sameshima and Khan Vo, by Susette Min, University of California Press
Cotter, Holland, "Bystander", New York Times, Friday, July 12, 2002
Schwenden, Martha, "Bystander", Critics' Pick, ArtForum.com
Comer, Stuart, "The things we do for art", i-D Magazine, issue #220, pages 22 & 94, May 2002
Andere Raume, essay by Yilmaz Dziewior and Katrin Sauerlander (exhibition catalogue)
Amalfitano, Madelynn, SOMA, Vol.16.4 May/June 2002
Hysteric 7: Dean Sameshima, essay by Bruce Hainley, Hysteric Glamour, Tokyo, Japan (monograph)
2001
Hainley, Bruce, ArtForum, (review), May 2001
Rickels, Laurence, "Dean Sameshima: Secret Agency", Artext #72, Feb/April, 2001
Goldwyn, Liz, Hanatsubaki #618, (interview), December 2001
2000
Prinzhorn, Martin, "Conceptualism with a Splash of Cranberry", Camera Austria #71, pg. 27-38
1999
2nd Annual Wight Biennial UCLA, essay by Delia Brown (exhibition catalogue)
Ise, Claudine, "Articulating Grief Through the Art of Loss", Los Angeles Times, April 16, 1999
1998
Greater Los Angeles, a Handbook for, edited by Florian Haas & Martin Schmidl, Frankfurt, Germany, Verlag Hausser
1997
I'm Still in Love With You, edited by Steven Hull (catalogue/LP)
1995
Steam: a quarterly journal for men, (photo reproductions) PDA Press Inc. Volume 3, issue 4, pg. 419/443
PANELS/LECTURES
2021
Artist Lecture, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Artist lecture, Pasadena Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Artist lecture, University of California, Irvine, CA
2004
"Contemporary Photography", slide lecture and critique class, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
"Identity Politics in Contemporary Art", instructor: Jean Rasenberger, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
"Artists in Their Studios", instructor: Eve Fowler, Art Center College of Design
2003
"Contemporary Photography", instructor: Eve Fowler Art Center College of Design, CA
2002
"Racialized Desires and Contested Space(s)", moderator: Viet Le, Cal State Northridge, Northridge, CA
"Studio Visits: lots of pictures/some sound", instructor: Cindy Bernard, Art Center of Design, Pasadena, CA
"Artists Studios", instructor: Eve Fowler, Art Center of Design
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
Artist Acquisition Club, 2022
Japan/US Friendship Exchange, 2006
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA