Guillaume Vandame (b. 1991, New York) is a French-American artist based between London, England and the USA. Vandame works across media, encompassing sculpture, installation, digital painting, text, and video, creating a critical and essential space to celebrate LGBTQIA+ representation and identity in the public realm.

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In 2015, Vandame presented his first solo exhibition with Josh Wright as the collective, Wright & Vandame, in September 2015 for fig-2 curated by Fatos Ustek at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London. The exhibition transformed the ICA Studio into a free gym with exercise classes taught by invited trainers and artists including Adham Faramawy, Karimah Ashadu, and Monster Chetwynd. The exhibition included sculptures such as concrete casts of yoga balls and readymade tools hand-stitched with Lycra alongside video and sound to create a unique sculptural installation activated by twenty-seven live events in one week.

In 2017, Vandame made an experimental artist film love songs, the greatest hits of celine dion and mark rothko as part of a guerrilla artist residency at the Rothko Room at the Tate Modern, London. The hour long film made on his iPhone juxtaposed up-close studies of Mark Rothko's paintings alongside Celine Dion's music and inspired an essay and a series of digital paintings, Lovers (2017-), begun as drawings on his iPhone printed as unique digital paintings on canvas. The series is a tribute to Vandame's childhood and time spent in the East End of Long Island, a site home to American artists including Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and de Kooning, creating and expanding queer narratives within the canon of Abstract Expressionism.

In 2019, Vandame presented Notice Me (LGBTQIA+ Walk) commissioned by Sculpture in the City for Nocturnal Creatures in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery, London, resulting in a film made with Joe Campbell, Oscar Oldershaw, and Tamsin Kavanagh. The artwork invited LGBTQIA+ individuals to dress in monochrome colors to form a 'walking rainbow' in the City of London, alongside artworks on display as part of Sculpture in the City contemplating utopian ideals, freedom, and queer liberation.

In the midst of the pandemic, Vandame  started a series of works on paper, Psycho High and Psycho Lovers, made with Frank's Red Hot Sauce and Durex Lubricant and other materials. He started a campaign across the UK for the public to submit their discarded NHS Rainbow artworks to question the status of the rainbow as a symbol for the LGBTQIA+ community. Between 2020 and 2021, he took part in an artist residency at Union Chapel, London resulting in a video essay, A Brief History of Rainbows (2021), reflecting on the legacy of the Original Rainbow Pride Flag designed by Gilbert Baker, Lynn Segerblom, and James McNamara, and the years following the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States, Gilbert Baker's death, and the banning of the Pride flag under President Trump. The artwork features a collaboration with celebrated American musician, Kelly Halloran. 

In 2021, Vandame presented his first significant public artwork symbols (2019-2021) a sculptural installation of thirty unique flags ranging from gender identity, sexual orientation, and desire, shown together for the first time at the Beehive Passage at the iconic landmark, Leadenhall Market, in the City of London for the 10th edition of Sculpture in the City, London and extended for the 11th edition between 2022 and 2023.

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In September 2022, Vandame was selected with their partner, Brody Mace-Hopkins, to present I Love You (2022) as part of the CIRCA x Dazed Class of 2022 in four unique cities including: Piccadilly Lights, London, England; Coex K-Pop Square, Seoul, South Korea; Limes, Kurfürstendamm, Berlin, Germany; and Fed Square, Melbourne, Australia. The artwork consists of Vandame fully naked in a field in Scotland at sunset repeatedly screaming, "I love you."