Devan Shimoyama
In Conversation: Devan Shimoyama at the Serlachius Museum
De Buck Gallery sits down with artist Devan Shimoyama to discuss his latest exhibition, Fade Cut, at the Serlachius Museum. De Buck: Can you describe…
Posted 9 months ago | 3 min read
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Fade cuts in Finland: Devan Shimoyama makes his debut at the Serlachius Museum
The Barber Shop Installation Serlachius Museum Gösta 23 March — 18 August 2024 US artist Devan Shimoyama (b. 1989) explores themes of sexuality, race and…
Posted 9 months ago | 1 min read
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Devan Shimoyama Talks with Omar Chahoud for Untitled Art Podcast
Shimoyama will be featured on the Untitled Podcast where he will discuss his new series, The Tarot, with Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art Omar López Chahoud.
Posted 2 years ago | 1 min read
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Financial Times: Meet the Art World’s Glitterati
Devan Shimoyama is featured in a story in the Financial Times about artists who use glitter to astonishing effect in their practice.
Posted 2 years ago | 1 min read
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Devan Shimoyama in the New York Times
Devan Shimoyama’s installation The Grove, at the Meridians section of Art Basel Miami Beach is featured in The New York Times.
Posted 2 years ago | 1 min read
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FRONT International: “Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows”
Art Critic Paul Laster reviews the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art featuring the work of Devan Shimoyama.
Posted 2 years ago | 4 min read
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Devan Shimoyama in the New York Times
Artist Devan Shimoyama is among a group of young, black, queer artists showcased in T: The New York Times Style Magazine in a feature by journalist Emil Wilbekin with photographs and video by Shikeith.
Posted 2 years ago | 6 min read
Press | Devan Shimoyama
Artnet Lists “Garmenting” Show (Featuring Work by Devan Shimoyama) as Dazzling New Exhibition
“Garmenting,” which runs through August 14, 2022 at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, is an international group exhibition that explores costume…
Posted 2 years ago | 1 min read
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Devan Shimoyama on the Life and Death of the Object
In this excerpt of his talk at MoAD, Shimoyama discusses the show’s theme, the still life, in the context of his practice.
Posted 3 years ago | 2 min read
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Rizzoli Hosts Discussion Featuring Devan Shimoyama
Rizzoli hosted a book launch for Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art, an exhibition at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design.
Posted 3 years ago | 1 min read
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Devan Shimoyama Featured in Wall Street Journal Review of ‘Garmenting’ Show
WSJ takes a closer look at ‘Garmenting: Costume As Contemporary Art,’ the first global survey exhibition dedicated to the use of clothing as a medium of visual art.
Posted 3 years ago | 2 min read
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Upcoming ‘Garmenting’ Exhibition at MAD Featured in WWD
In the upcoming global survey at MAD, 35 artists take the concept of dress as a critical tool to address aspects of subjectivity including gender, class, race, and ethnicity.
Posted 3 years ago | 2 min read
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Brooklyn Museum Acquires Devan Shimoyama Print for Permanent Collection
Baltimore-based artist Devan Shimoyama’s limited-edition print release, Dizzy Spell (2021), has been acquired by the Brooklyn Museum. All editions in this series have been sold…
Posted 3 years ago | 1 min read
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Devan Shimoyama’s Smithsonian Commission, Now On View, Invites Viewers to Breathe and Heal
Shimoyama’s Swarovski crystal-encrusted installation, The Grove, invites viewers to enter a meditative forest-like space to forgive, breathe, pause, and heal.
Posted 3 years ago | 1 min read
Gallery News | Devan Shimoyama
Columbus Museum of Art Unveils Scantland Collection Featuring Work by Devan Shimoyama
The exhibition, Present Generations, is a showcase of the first wave of promised gifts to the museum and includes works by 26 artists representing a broad swath of contemporary art practice.
Posted 3 years ago | 2 min read
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Works for the Now, by Queer Artists of Color
Pride Month may have come to a close, but the wide-ranging pieces shown here have staying power. … By Devan Shimoyama, 30, based in Pittsburgh…
Posted 4 years ago | 1 min read
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Devan Shimoyama’s Dazzling Paintings Reimagine Black Masculinity
Devan Shimoyama constructs worlds of mythology and fantasy that refuse to accept the monolithic narratives of Black trauma and despair. His shimmering and multi-layered characters…
Posted 4 years ago | 4 min read
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New Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Profiles Revolutionary African American Men
A new traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian presents the narrative of a nation through the profiles of significant African American men who are icons in…
Posted 5 years ago | 2 min read
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Devan Shimoyama featured in ‘After & Because Of’ at IU’s Herron School of Art + Design
The Galleries at Herron School of Art and Design will kick off another summer season Wednesday, June 5, with two group exhibitions – "The Alchemy...
Posted 6 years ago | 1 min read
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The New York Review of Books | Devan Shimoyama’s Vision of a Dazzling Black Future | by Antwaun Sargent
Devan Shimoyama, Midnight Rumination, 2019 A reading list for black futurity—what might it contain? The paintings in Devan Shimoyama’s “Shh…,” a small recent show…
Posted 6 years ago | 8 min read
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GQ.com | Artist Devan Shimoyama Takes on Race and Sexuality With Glitter and Rhinestones
Philadelphia Native Shimoyama is now based in Pittsburgh, where he teaches at Carnegie Mellon University. A Yale M.F.A. graduate, his paintings borrow materials from drag culture—glitter,…
Posted 6 years ago | 3 min read
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5 Outstanding Discoveries at Miami Art Week’s Satellite Fairs | Devan Shimoyama
When you’ve gotten your fill of blue chip contemporary art and seven-figure masterpieces from the mother of all fairs—Art Basel Miami Beach—there are plenty of…
Posted 6 years ago | 7 min read
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NY Times | Seven Artists on the Warhol Influence | Devan Shimoyama
WARHOL’S LEGACY Seven Artists on the Warhol Influence How the Pop master’s experimentation helped them find their own voice. Three decades after Andy Warhol’s death,…
Posted 6 years ago | 14 min read
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NY Times | A Good Year for Younger Artists, Immigrant Citizens and Outrage
Photo: “Snake Baby” (2016), by Devan Shimoyama, whose solo show at the Andy Warhol Museum opens on Oct. 13. In 2018, the United States stands with…
Posted 6 years ago | 6 min read
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Devan Shimoyama’s solo exhibition at The Andy Warhol Museum opens this Fall
Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby will mark the first museum solo exhibition of Devan Shimoyama, Philadelphia-born painter and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Spanning his burgeoning career,…
Posted 7 years ago | 2 min read
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NY Times | From the Personal to the Political, 19 Artists to Watch Next Year
Devan Shimoyama’s painting “Shape Up and a Trim” (2017) is on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem’s survey of work by emerging artists. Credit De Buck…
Posted 7 years ago | 5 min read
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NBC News | Gay artist reimagines the ‘hyper-masculine’ black barbershop
As a young, black kid growing up in a predominately white neighborhood in Philadelphia, Devan Shimoyama first remembers hearing the term “sweet” being used in...
Posted 7 years ago | 5 min read
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Devan Shimoyama’s current exhibition makes the top of the list for Artnet’s unmissable shows this month.
2. “Devan Shimoyama: Sweet” at De Buck Gallery Devan Shimoyama’s self-portraiture is a joyous representation of the black queer male body. In his first show at De...
Posted 7 years ago | 1 min read