Dean Sameshima
Men Ruin Everything T-Shirt in Tie-Dye
£35
Screen printed tie-dye tee featuring the work of Dean Sameshima, exclusive to House of Voltaire.
Dimensions
Available in XS, S, M, L, XL
Finishing
100% organic cotton t-shirt
Courtesy the artist and Soft Opening, London
About The Artwork
Dean Sameshima investigates the arena of queer histories, nostalgia, desire and fetish. Sameshima's practice largely comprises painting and photography, but also includes an ongoing exploration of historical subcultures, in particular punk rock and DIY movements, through a series of screen printed t-shirts. Celebrating our 30th anniversary in 2024, Studio Voltaire has invited many major artists to revisit and reimagine some of their previous House of Voltaire releases for our “Greatest Hits”. In honour of this, Sameshima's 'Men Ruin Everything' artwork is back again as a tie-dye tee.
About Dean Sameshima
Dean Sameshima (b. 1971, Torrance, CA) lives and works in Berlin. Some of Sameshima's best known documentations of marginalised and queer subcultures include photographs of glory holes in public bathrooms, titled 'Erdbeermund', and a series of screen printed t-shirts featuring fragments of esoteric gay culture, which have gained a cult following.
In 2024 Sameshima participated in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Other exhibitions include being alone at Soft Opening, London (2024); 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.