Dean Sameshima

Queer Histories, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 13, 2024 - April 13, 2025

curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Artistic Director, MASP; Julia Bryan-Wilson, Deputy Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, MASP; with Andre Mesquita, MASP Curator and assitance by Leandro Muniz, Assistant Curator and Teo Teotonio, Assitant Curator, MASP.

photo documentation by Eduardo Ortega courtesy of Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo (MASP), Brazil

Hunter Reynolds / Dean Sameshima: Promiscuous Rage (Installation View) P·P·O·W, New York, NY, December 13, 2024 – January 25, 2025. Photo: JSP Art Photography.

Courtesy of P·P·O·W, New York. Photo: JSP Art Photography.

Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World is co-curated by Nikolay Maslov and April Baca. Exhibition concept by Douglas McCulloh.

Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World is an ambitious exhibition spanning six decades (1962–2020s) that investigates the history and creative uses of digital imaging technology, from the genesis of digital imaging in Southern California research laboratories during the Cold War and Space Race of the 1960s, to the ubiquity of digital media in our contemporary world. The exhibition and accompanying digital publication narrate the ideological shifts that occurred as digital technologies were adopted for artistic ends.

Participating artists: Rebecca Allen, Refik Anadol, Natalie Bookchin, micha cárdenas, Liliana Conlisk Gallegos, Nonny de la Peña, John Divola, Dynasty Handbag, EPOCH, Elisa Giardina Papa, Goldin+Senneby, Valerie Green, Lucia Grossberger Morales, Maggie Hazen, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Huntrezz Janos, Eugene Lally, Brandon Lattu, Ahree Lee, David Maisel, Frank Malina, Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall, Lynne Marsh, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Mobile Image (Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz), Lee Mullican, A. Michael Noll, Mendi + Keith Obadike, Charles O’Rear, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Sheila Pinkel, Sonya Rapoport, Marton Robinson, Dean Sameshima, Julia Scher, Ilene Segalove, Sonia Landy Sheridan, Barbara T. Smith, Christine Tamblyn, Penelope Umbrico, Stan VanDerBeek, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Gerardo Velazquez, Andrew Norman Wilson, Amir Zaki

Installation documentation by Nikolay Maslov.

selection from the series figures, 2024-

Documentation courtesy of Lewis Ronald and Soft Opening, London

a selection from the series Anonymous Portraits

acrylic and silkscreen on canvas

30 x 40cm each

Documentation by Lewis Ronald

60th Venice Biennale: Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere curated by Adriano Pedrosa

Organized by ICA LA guest curator Anna Sew Hoy and Good Works Executive Director Anne Ellegood, Scratching at the Moon is the first focused survey of Asian American artists in a major Los Angeles contemporary art museum. The exhibition celebrates the work of an intergenerational group of thirteen leading artists in the Asian American community whose contributions to culture are multiple, ranging from their distinctive visual arts production to their commitment to pedagogy to their dedication to research, activism, and community engagement.

Featured artists include Patty Chang, Young Chung, Vishal Jugdeo, Simon Leung, Michelle Lopez, Yong Soon Min, Na Mira, Amanda Ross-Ho, Miljohn Ruperto, Dean Sameshima, Anna Sew Hoy, Amy Yao, and Bruce Yonemoto.

Revolt of the Body curated by Simon Wu at Tina Kim Gallery, New York.

‘Revolt of the Body’ explores conceptions of flesh, sexuality, and time that precede modern and contemporary ideas of identity and self, borrowing its name from the final solo performance of Japanese choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata (1926-86). Taking place at Tokyo’s Nihon Seihan hall in October 1968, “Revolt of the Body” was Hijikata’s most intense articulation of Ankoku Butoh, an avant-garde movement practice he founded nine years earlier, literally denoting ‘dance of darkness.’ Hijikata sought to re-invent the boundaries of art, life, and humanity in the shadow and devastation of World War II. 

While the artists do not explicitly cite Hijikata, their works invoke alternative, rebellious bodies in line with Butoh’s historic provocations. The radically recombinant body is typefied in Dean Sameshima’s Erotic Dot Series––fields of connect-the-dot paintings that make images of gay sex when connected as prescribed, or something else alien, unrecognizable, if you choose your own paths. In Cole Lu’s sculptures, etchings and drawings, he produces mythic images of celestial and premodern lives. Flesh is reimagined as wirey, ghostly baskets in Maia Ruth Lee’s social sculptures––assembled as a singular column like an arm or a body––and as bruisable, photosensitive surfaces in Lotus L. Kang’s drawings. And as in Tosh Basco’s hand prayer drawings, each of them are a kind of flesh in themselves.

Participating artists include Cole Lu, Dean Sameshima, Lotus L. Kang, Maia Ruth Lee, and Tosh Basco.

Photo documentation by Susan Behrends Valenzuela

Erdbeermund, 2023

Still Life

Dean Sameshima

being alone

February 1 - March 18, 2023

Dean Sameshima, McNamara Art Projects, Hong Kong in collaboration with Peres Projects, 2017

Zu Verschenken (portrait of a city)

Peres Projects

647(a)

March 10–April 13, 2017

Gavlak Gallery

647(d)

May 13 - July 9, 2016

Peres Projects

NUMBERS II – Ode to Johnny Rio

March 1 – April 26, 2008

Peres Projects

Numbers

March 10 - April 21, 2007

Peres Projects

The Purple Pamphlet (with annotations by J.J. Belanger)

March 10 - April 21, 2007

Griffith Park, 2007 was exhibited at The Printed Matter Book Fair, 28 through 30 September, 2007, New York and organized by AA Bronson.

Taka Ishii Gallery

Young Men At Play

March 26 – April 23, 2005

Peres Projects

Outlaw
January 10–February 14, 2004

LOW

Too young to reason, too grown up to dream, 2001

CalArts

Wonderland, 1995-97

Artist Books