Dean Sameshima
b. 1971, Canada
Dean Sameshima (b. 1971, Torrance, CA) lives and works in Berlin. Sameshima will be participating this year in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include Digital Capture: Southern California and the Origins of the Pixel-Based Image World at California Museum of Photography, Riverside (2024); Scratching at the Moon at ICA, Los Angeles (2024); Revolt of the Body at Tina Kim Gallery, New York (2023); being alone at Queer Thoughts, New York (2023); Radical Perverts: Ecstasy and Activism in Queer Public Space at Museum of Sex, New York (2023); Politiken der Berührung (Politics of Touch) at Amtsalon, Berlin (2023); Kino Roland at Kino Roland, Zurich (2022) and Evidence: Selections from the Permanent Collection at MOCA, Los Angeles (2021). Sameshima is in the permanent collections of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and was the 2022 recipient of The Artist Acquisition Club award.