This week on Sound & Vision, a re-release of a conversation with Devan Shimoyama on the occasion of his opening of Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby, his first museum solo exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum. Spanning his young career, the exhibition includes painting, photography and sculpture, and a series of new works that will be on view for the first time.
Devan received his BFA from Penn State University in 2011 and his MFA from Yale University in 2014. Shimoyama has exhibited throughout the United States, including at De Buck Gallery, Lesley Heller Gallery, and Kravets Wehby Gallery in New York in NY; Samuel Freeman Gallery and Zevitas Marcus Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; Alter Space, San Francisco, CA; Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO; and internationally at Frieze London and in Realities in Contemporary Video Art at the Fondation des Etats Unis, in Paris, France. His work has been featured in publications such as The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, New American Paintings ,Vice, Creators Project, and Saatchi Art’s ‘Best of 2014’. Devan is currently a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. This was Devan and Brian talking at his solo booth with Stems Gallery at the Independant Art Fair in 2017