Solo and two-person exhibitions

• 2024

  Being Alone, Soft Opening, London, UK

• 2023

  Being Alone, O-Town House, Los Angeles, CA
  Being Alone, O-Town House, New York, NY

• 2017

  647(a), Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

• 2016

  647(d), Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Dean Sameshima: Public Sex, organized by Andy Campbell, She Works Flexible Gallery, Houston, TX

• 2013

  Cruise or be Cruised, Galeria Rachel Ponce, Madrid, ES

• 2011

  FAGGOTS, Preteen gallery, Mexico City, MX
  In Passing, two person exhibition with Michael Bevilacqua, The Flat, Massimo Carasi, Milan, IT

• 2009

  Pictures, Black Pillar, organized by Tolo Canellas, Madrid, ES

• 2008

  Pictures, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, DE
  Numbers II, (Ode to Johnny Rio)," Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
  Numbers II, (Ode to Johnny Rio)," Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

• 2007

  Numbers, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

• 2006

  Unknown Pleasures, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE

• 2005

  Young Men at Play II / Boys in My Bedroom, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
  Young Men at Play, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, JP

• 2004

  Outlaw II (Silverlake), aspreyjacques, London, UK
  Outlaw, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA

• 2002

  Art Statements, Art/33/Basel, CH (catalog)

• 2001

  He sang the soundtrack to my life: Too young to reason, too grown up to dream, Galerie Hohenlohe & Kalb, Vienna, AT

• 1997

  Wonderland, Gavlak Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2024

  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, curated by Anna Sew Hoy, 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, DE

• 2022

  Kino Roland, curated by Querformat, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, Kino Roland, Zurich, CH

• 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
  Pathologically Social organized by Mark Verabioff and Scott Cameron Weaver, O-Town House, Los Angeles, CA
  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, BR
  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, DE
  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)

• 2013

  A Point of View: Selected Gifts from the Laurence A. Rickels Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

• 2012

  Bootleg T-shirt Show, Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY

• 2011

  a painting show, curated by Aaron Moulton, Autocenter, Berlin, DE
  The New Disorder, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, GR
  Coming After, Curated by Jon Davies, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA
  Queer Chapel, Presented by Septembre editions, Paris, FR

• 2010

  FATHER, curated by Diego Singh, Mendes Wood, São Paulo, BR
  Cruise or be Cruised, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, ES
  Sweet & Saccharine, curated by Ana Finel Honigman, Grimmuseum, Berlin, DE
  Summer Camp, Lost Horizon/Headshop, curated by Billy Miller, Exile Gallery, Berlin, DE
  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, NO
  ANTIFOTO, fotofest 101, curated by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, DE (catalog)

• 2009

  Minneapolis, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
  Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch Berlin von Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, DE (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, DE (catalog)
  GebaGeba, Misako & Rosen Gallery, Tokyo, JP
  Can't Rape the Willing, curated by Kathryn Garcia and Sarvia Jasso, Second Floor, Brooklyn, NY
  Art-Read, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY
  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, JP
  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, DE
  Read My Lips, Peres Projects Berlin, curated by Dean Sameshima
  Auslaender in Berlin, curated by Margherita Belaief, CITRIC Gallery, Brescia, IT
  SGOZZATA, curated by Margherita Belaief & John Kleckner, Berlin, DE

• 2007

  Public Park, Scoops, Los Angeles, CA
  Printed Matter: New York Art Book Fair, New York, NY
  Beyond the Zero, Peres Projects, Athens, GR
  Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, NY
  ARTE E OMOSESSUALITÀ. DA VON GLOEDEN A PIERRE ET GILLES, works form the Ernesto Esposito collection, Palazzina Reale, Florence, IT
  Natural Geographic, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles, CA
  Global Cities, Tate Modern, London, UK
  Mario Testino : Mario Testino at Home, Yvon Lambert, NY 
  Blow Both of Us, curated by Shannon Ebner and Adam Putnam, Participant Inc., NY

• 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, NY
  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, IT
  10 Year Anniversary, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, JP

• 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, JP

• 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, AT
  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, DE
  Nachgemacht: reproduzierte Naturlichkeit-simulierte Natur, curated by Martin Prinzhorn, Kunstraum Innsbruck, AT
  Inframince, curated by David Bussel, Cabinet, London, UK
  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, JP
  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, TX

• 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

• 1995

  The Autobiography of Difference, curated by Karin Higa, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA

Selected Bibliography

• 2023

  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.
  Hadland, Gracie. “Dean Sameshima ‘being alone’ and Mark Verabioff ‘Verbiage’”, O-Town House, Los Angeles, Flash Art, May 13, 2023.

• 2022

  Colucci, Emily. “A Session of Porn Therapy in Dean Sameshima’s ‘Being Alone’ at Queer Thoughts,” filthydreams.org, 2022.
  “Touch. Politiken der Berührung (Politics of Touch),” (catalogue), EMOP (European Month of Photography), Berlin, DE, 2022.

• 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, 2021. 

• 2020

  Campbell, Andy. “Bound Together: Leather, sex, archives and contemporary art,” Manchester University Press, 2020.

• 2019

  Campbell, Andy. “Queer Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ,” Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2019.
  “Utopia Centerfolds At Play,” CONVOKE, New York City, NY, 2019.
  “Cock in a Box,” Darin Klein & Friends, Los Angeles, CA, 2019.

• 2017

  “Historias Da Sexualidade (Histories of Sexuality)," (catalogue), MASP, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2017.

• 2015

  “QUEER,” introduction by Ana Finel Honigman, Aperture, Spring 2015.
  “HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection,” UMMA BOOKS, 2015.

• 2013

  Art and Queer Culture, edited by Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, Phaidon Press, 2013. 

• 2010

  “Zeitgeist. Variations & Repetitions, Save As... Publications,” Barcelona, ES, 2010.
  Bollen, Christopher, "Rated Art,” Interview, December/January, 2010.

• 2009

  “The 2009 Excellent People Award…" theexcellentpeople.wordpress.com
  “Scorpio's Garden,” (catalogue), Verlag der Buchhandlung, Walther Konig, Koln, 2009.
  “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, GR, 2009.

• 2008

  Schlaegel, Andreas,”Review,” FLASH ART, May/June, 2008
  “Queer Zines,” (catalogue), edited by Philip Aarons and AA Bronson, New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc., 2008.
  “Dean SAMESHIMA: Numbers II (Ode to Johnny Rio),” DIS Publications, 2008.
  Bergstrom-Katz, Sasha, “Interview with Dean Sameshima,” www.artslant.com, 2008.
  Finel Honigman, Ana "Dean Sameshima at Peres Projects,” ART IN AMERICA, June, 2008.

• 2007

  Allsop, Laura, "What He Loved,” ART REVIEW, issue #10, April, 2007.
  “Instilled and Lost,” (catalogue), Peres Projects, Los Angeles/Berlin, 2007.
  Finel Honigman, Ana, "Dean Sameshima Talks to Ana Finel Honigman,” 2007. 

• 2006

  Taft, Catherine, “A Lover’s Discourse,” Artforum, 2006.
  Rosen, Misako, “Art," Tokion vol. 11, no. 53, 2006.
  Yamashita, Shiyo, "Photographers 002,” Esquire, Vol. 20, no. 11, November 2006.
  “LA Artland: Contemporary Art From Los Angeles,” Black Dog Publishing, 2006. 
  “Vitamin PH: New Perspectives in Photography,” Phaidon Publishing, 2006.
  “The Upbeat Issue,” i-D magazine #264, 2006.
  “Freddie,” DIS Publications, 2006.

• 2005

  Walkowiak, Jeffrey: 9th Baltic Triennial, “BMW: Black Market World,” (catalogue), 2005.
  Badi Magazine, June, 2005.
  “Seijo,” DIS Publications, 2005.
  “Ivan,” DIS Publications, 2005.
  “Young Men at Play #1 & #2,” DIS Publications, 2005.
  Cotter, Holland, "Log Cabin,” New York Times, January, 2005.
  “Uncensored” issue, curated by Mario Testino, Visionaire #46, 2005.

• 2004

  "Celebration" issue, i-D magazine, 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, (catalogue), ArtMedia Press, 2004.
  “Figures of Lust, Furtively Encountered in the Nights,” 2004.
  Pethick, Emily. “Critic's Pick,” Artforum, April, 2004.
  Herbert, Martin. TimeOut London, April, 2004.
  Martinez Kyrgowkski, Jill. "Artworker of the Week no. 85,” KultureFlash, April, 2004.
  Ratnam, Niru, "say hi to photographer dean sameshima, he's hot,” i-D Magazine, March, 2004.
  "Deaf Dude,” BUTT Magazine, Spring, 2004.

• 2003

  “CSNA,” issue #1, Fall, 2003.
  “CREAM 3,” curated by Ruben Gallo, Phaidon Press, 2003.

• 2002

  Wood, Catherine. “Inframince," Artext, Fall, 2002, #78.
  “Loss: The Politics of Mourning,” edited by David L. Eng & David Kazanjian, 2002.
  Min, Susette. “Remains to be Seen: Reading the Works of Dean Sameshima and Khan Vo,” University of California Press, 2002.
  Cotter, Holland. “Bystander," New York Times, July, 2002.
  Schwenden, Martha. “Bystander," Critics' Pick, ArtForum, 2002.
  Comer, Stuart. "The things we do for art,” i-D Magazine, issue #220, May, 2002.
  Yilmaz Dziewior, Yilmaz and Sauerlander, Katrin. “Andere Raume,” (catalogue), 2002.
  Amalfitano, Madelynn. SOMA, Vol.16.4 May/June, 2002.
  Hainley, Bruce. “Hysteric 7: Dean Sameshima,” Hysteric Glamour, Tokyo, 2002.

• 2001

  Hainley, Bruce. ArtForum, May, 2001.
  Rickels, Laurence. "Dean Sameshima: Secret Agency,” Artext  #72, February/ April, 2001.
  Goldwyn, Liz. ”Hanatsubaki #618,” interview, December, 2001.

• 2000

  Prinzhorn, Martin. "Conceptualism with a Splash of Cranberry,” Camera Austria #71, 2000.

• 1999

  Brown, Delia. “2nd Annual Wight Biennial UCLA,” catalogue, 1999.
  Ise, Claudine. "Articulating Grief Through the Art of Loss,” Los Angeles Times, April, 1999.

• 1998

  Haas, Florian and Schmidle, Martin. “Greater Los Angeles, a Handbook for,” Frankfurt, DE, Verlag Hausser, 1998. 

• 1997

  Hull, Steven. “I’m Still in Love With You,” (catalogue), 1997.

• 1995

  “Steam: a quarterly journal for men,” PDA Press Inc. Volume 3, issue 4, 1995.

Awards, Grants, and Residencies

• 2022

  Artist Acquisition Club

• 2006

  Japan/US Friendship Exchange

Public Collections

Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA