Devan Shimoyama is an artist currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. He was born in 1989 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from Penn State University in 2011 with a BFA in Drawing & Painting before obtaining his MFA at Yale University School of Art in 2014. He was awarded the Al Held Fellowship at the Yale School of Art in 2013 and has had a residency at the 2015 Fire Island Artist Residency. He recently recieved the 2016 Pulse Prize. He’s shown at Samuel Freeman, Lesley Heller, BravinLee, Kravets Wehby and Lehman College Art Gallery to name a few. He has several upcoming solo shows including an exhibit at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. He is also currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Brian met up with Devan at his solo booth with Stems Gallery at the Independant Art Fair and we talked about his formative experiences in Philly, music and cinema and the ideas and meaning in his work.