Born in Beverly Farms, MA, 1980
Lives and works in Bloomington, IN
One-Person Exhibitions
2024
Reality Show, BLUM, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Following Sea, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2022
The Cat Came Back, Castle, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Recording, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
Empty Boat, KOKI Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Time Stamp, Herron School of Art + Design, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
2017
Magnolias All At Once, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
Editions of You, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL
Opportunity Cost, A\M Projects, Indianapolis, IN
2016
Economics, Breezeway Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Family Resemblance, ATM, Austin, TX
2014
Casting, Big Medium at Bolm, Austin, TV
Slow Jam, Artifex Guild, Bloomington, IN
2013
DRAGON EXPRESS, Welcome Screen, London, UK
Sausage, Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL
Group Exhibitions
2023
A Game For the Living, dunes.fyi, Portland, ME
The Feminine In Abstract Painting, Pat Passlof and Milton Resnick Foundation, New York, NY
Real Life, Ilse D’Hollander in dialogue, Galerie Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
The Sense of Sight: Landscape, the City, and Abstraction, Make Room, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Regarding Kimber, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Small Paintings, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, KOKI Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Beyond Genres, Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY
2021
Angle of Repose, Poker Flats Gallery, Williamstown, MA
A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA
Downtown, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
2020
Maelstom, curated by Fortnight Institute, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Zwag, CG Boerner, New York, NY
2019
Adrian, George, Peter, Sofia e Tamina, P420 Galleria, Bologna, Italy
2018
Locus Focus: Peter Shear and Arvind Sundararajan, 840 Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH
Lonely Planet, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2017
Say Yes, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
ONLY Small Paintings, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2016
Dek Hed: Ashley Carter, Mort Drucker, Bill Jenkins, Terrence Koh, Candace Lin, Quintessa Matranga, Karen May, Keegan McHargue, Marlon Mullen, Seth Price, Peter Shear, curated by Ross Simonini, The Thing Quarterly, San Francisco, CA
Bring Something Pink, curated by Yifat Gat, Espace Despalles, Paris, France
B&W Project, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Basic Instinct, Peter Shear and Ellen Siebers, FJORD, Philadelphia, PA
Good Bad Brush: Peter Shear and Matthew Wong, The Occasional Gallery, Burlington, WA
Katelyn Eichwald and Peter Shear, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2015
Peer Review, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College of London, UK
2014
Brute Moderates, Clinton King & Peter Shear, Firework Space, Brooklyn, NY
2013
The Double Down, curated by Trudy Benson and Jason Stopa, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Reason & Romance, curated by Alain Biltereyst, 6b Gallery, Elingen, Belgium
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Articles and Reviews
2023
Yau, John. “Peter Shear Lets Paint Be.” Hyperallergic.com, April 5, 2023.