Dean SAMESHIMA
Numbers II (Ode to Johnny Rio)
Berlin

March 1 - April 19, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION:
march 01, 7 - 10PM
Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 6 pm and by appointment
Dean Sameshima (b.Torrance, California)
Lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
"Pictures," Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany, 2008
"Numbers II (Ode to Johnny Rio)," Peres Projects, Los Angeles, 2008
"Numbers II (Ode to Johnny Rio)," Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany, 2008
"Numbers," Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany, 2007
"Obsession, Retribution, Appropriation, Obliteration, Depression, Distribution, Confusion, Collaboration, Isolation, Annihilation," Gallery Sora, Tokyo, Japan, 2006
"Unknown Pleasures," Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium, 2006
"Young Men At Play II / Boys In My Bedroom", Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 2005
"Young Men At Play", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, 2005
"Outlaw II (Silver Lake)", asprey jacques, London, 2004
"OutLaw", Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA , 2004
"Art Statements", Art/33/Basel, Switzerland (catalogue), 2002


Selected Group Exhibitions:
"FTW/DIY (1995-2004) RIP." curated by Nicole Panter, MOV-In Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2008
"Formal Issue," curated by Jeffrey Ian Rosen, AKTA, Tokyo, Japan, 2008
"Is/Not: LOVE in the USA" Am exhibition of artists from Los Angeles, curated by Brooke Lynn McGowan, Louise T Blouin Institute, London, UK, 2008
"Summer Video Program," Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany, 2008
"Read My Lips," Peres Projects Berlin, curated by Dean Sameshima, 2008
"Auslaender in Berlin," CITRIC Gallery, Brescia, Italy, curated by Margherita Belaief, 2008
"SGOZZATA," curated by Margherita Belaief & John Kleckner, Berlin, Germany, 2008
"Public Park," Scoops, Los Angeles, 2007
"Printed Matter: New York Art Book Fair," New York, NY, 2007
"Beyond the Zero," Peres Projects, Athens, Greece, 2007
"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, 2007
"Natural Geographic," Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles, CA , 2007
"Global Cities," Tate Modern, London, 2007
"At Home," Yvon Lambert, New York, curated by Mario Testino, 2007
"Marcus Knupp and Dean Sameshima," Peres Projects at Art Cologne, 2007
"An unsung rhythm in a colonnade of stars," Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Job Piston, 2007
"Blow Both of Us", PARTICIPANT INC, New York, NY, curated by Shannon Ebner and Adam Putnam, 2007
"Achtung FSK 18 – Vol 2," Galerie Tristesse in conjunction with the Porfilmestival Berlin, 2007
"Public Storage Temple Hospital: A Program of Artists' Videos", Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA, organized by John Pearson, 2006
"Glory Hole", Archinect, London, curated by Pablo Internacional Magazine, 2006
"Swallow Harder: Selections from the Collection of Ben and Aileen Krohn", Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, curated by Robin Held, 2006
"Will Boys Be Boys? Questioning Adolescent Masculinity in Contemporary Art", Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas, curated by Shamim Momim (traveling through 2006), 2005
"Log Cabin", Artists Space, New York, NY, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, 2005
"Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art", Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana and San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, 2005
"The Picture I Carry In My Head", Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Teri Phillips, 2005
"Will Boy Be Boys?", Questioning Adolescent Masculinity,
in Contemporary Art, The Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, curated by Shamim Momim, 2004
"10 Year Anniversary", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2004
"The Stars of Track and Field are Beautiful People," Galeria Changing Role, Naples, Italy, curated by Javier Peres, 2004

Sameshima is included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Sameshima has been featured in Art Forum, Flash Art, Modern Painters, Art In America, I-D Magazine, Index, Flash Photo, I-D, Soma, and The New York Times. "Instilled and Lost," featuring selected works, was just published by Peres Projects. Other catalogues include "Hysteric Seven"(2002), and "Young Men At Play, vol. 1 & 2". He was also included in the "Cream 3, 2003" catalogue and "Vitamin Ph, New Perspectives in Photography," 2006.