Yabu Pushelberg Presents
Your Shame
Bores Me
First Solo Exhibition by
Christopher Sherman
Your Shame Bores Me is a declaration and a horny invitation.
Shame has long been used to police bodies, silence desire, and regulate pleasure. I’m not interested. Shame is predictable. Exhausting. Unoriginal. It does not inspire me - it bores me.
My work asks what happens after shame. It lives in the space of desire, play, and vulnerability - where honesty and horniness become radical acts of human existence. I want to seduce, disrupt, and reframe how we see ourselves and one another through love and light.
Through photography, image-making, and cultural inquiry, I confront the scripts that demand we hide. Instead, I ask: What if pleasure is the practice and horniness is the truth?
Your shame bores me. Your joy, your longing, your vulnerability - that’s where art and life begin.
Your Shame Bores Me marks Christopher Sherman’s first solo exhibition. Christopher lives and works in Toronto.
Special thanks to Yabu Pushelberg for their support.
October 9 - 18, 2025
Yabu Pushelberg, 55 Booth Avenue
Toronto, Canada
Pablo with Lilies, 2024
35mm
Mone Winking, 2021
35mm
Juan Fire Hydrant, 2017
35mm
Billy with Doritos, 2025
35mm
Jared Faggots, 2023
35mm
Romance Novel Pose, 2020
35mm
Your Shame Bores Me
is about confronting the fears that keep us small.
It’s an invitation for audiences to examine their own relationship with shame—and then to imagine what comes after it
Kiss More, 2022
35mm
Nicko Blue Jock, 2024
35mm
Hunter Schaffer Paper Bag Princess, 2020
35mm
Francis Ford Coppola + Adam Driver, 2023
35mm
Amit with Dolphin, 2025
35mm
Jeanne Beker, 2025
35mm
Matty Matheson Matheson Food Company, 2024
35mm
It Takes Two, 2019
35mm
Tommy Hanlans, 2024
35mm
David Cronenberg for
Interview Magazine, 2024
35mm
Aurora James And Fruit, 2024
35mm
Max Rosehips with Roses, 2023
35mm
Paco in Bathtub, 2025
35mm
KJ Apa for Interview Magazine, 2021
35mm
Silvio and Lilies, 2022
35mm
Anne Carson for Interview Magazine, 2021
35mm
Paul Rudd for Interview Magazine, 2022
35mm
Sardar, 2021
35mm
Rio And Pony, 2018
35mm
Vivek Shraya, 2022
35mm
4 Way Kiss, 2025
35mm
Sharok, 2022
35mm
Raphael with Record, 2025
35mm
Zeidmoon, 2023
35mm
Emma with Roses, 2025
35mm
Jack with Weights, 2025
35mm
Justin is Hot, 2019
35mm
Hazel Needs A Light, 2025
35mm
Angel Elias PrEP, 2025
35mm
Ski Mask with Rose, 2022
35mm
Tyehimba, 2025
35mm
Julien in Paris, 2022
35mm
Mark and Geith Kiss, 2023
35mm
Aliya Room Service, 2022
35mm
Siphe, 2023
35mm
Tommy, 2018
35mm
“In our lives and work, we have always led with vulnerability. We never tried to be perfect. We own our mistakes and show who we are,” say George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg, founders and the creative minds behind Yabu Pushelberg.
“That trust matters, and empathy grows from it. We see the same impulse in Christopher’s work. His voice is clear, distinct, and necessary.”
Luka Through The Looking Glass, 2023
35mm
When people encounter my work, I want them to turn inward and ask: How does this make me feel? Maybe it’s excitement, shame, joy, or fear. Whatever arises belongs
to the viewer.
My hope is that they sit with those feelings—because in exploring them, you begin to peel away the layers of expectation and move closer to your authentic life, not the one the world has scripted for you.
— Christopher Sherman
Grapes of Wrath, 2023
35mm
See more of Christopher Sherman’s work here:
www.christophersherman.com
www.haveahornyday.com
Yabu Pushelberg designs places and products: immersive environments, compelling destinations, and considered goods. George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg founded the studio in 1980 with an emphasis on interior design and have since expanded the studio into a multidisciplinary practice that addresses multiple layers of human experience. With offices in New York and Toronto and a team of more than a hundred creatives and professionals, the studio specializes in sensibilities spanning buildings, interiors, landscapes, lighting, furniture, objects, and graphics with a focus that goes well beyond what things look like, to how they make people feel.
yabupushelberg.com