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Steven Shearer
(
Canadian
, born 1968)
Steven Shearer
Parts & Wholes,
2008–2009
Price on Request
Steven Shearer
Sleep II,
2015
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Steven Shearer
Xmas Trees III,
2015
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Biography
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Timeline
1968
Born in New Westminster, BC
1991
Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art c/o NASCAD
New York Studio Program
1992
BFA, Emily Carr College of Art and Design
Lives and works in Vancouver/BC, USA
Exhibitions
2017
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa/ON, Canada (solo)
2016
The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA (solo)
2014
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Trouble Boy, Corner College, Zurich
‘1 + 1 = 1’: When Collections Collide’, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2013
Altars of Madness, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Altars of Madness, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Belgium
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Harlem, NY (solo)
‘Folk Devil’, David Zwirner, NYC, USA
‘The Cat Show’, White Columns, NYC, USA
‘Somos Libres’, Lima, Peru
‘Somos Libres II’, Turino, Italy
‘The Collection As a Character’, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
‘Lost Boys: The Territories of Youth’, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa/ON, Canada (solo)
Bad Run, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (solo)
‘À rebour’, Venus over Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
2012
Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the Present, L&M Art, Los Angeles, USA
Painting Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2011
Shore, Forest and Beyond. Art from the Audain Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
54th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale de Venezia, Canada Pavilion, Venice, Italy (solo)
The Joy of Pleasure, VeneKlasen Werner, Berlin, Germany (curated by Dieter Roelstraete and Monika Szewczyk)
No Color in your Cheeks unless the Wind lashes your Face, Online Exhition curated by Timothée Chaillou
Sculpture Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA (solo)
National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Contemporary Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2010
Geometric Healing, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Sur le dandysme aujourd'hui: From Shop Window Mannequin to Media Star, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, , A Coruña
Contemporary Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa/ON, Canada
Fresh Hell – Carte Blanche à Adam McEwen, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle/WA, USA
Permanent Trouble - Aktuelle Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp, KOG - Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
Video A - Harry Shearer: The Silent Echo Chamber Aldrich, Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerpen
All that is Solid Melts Into Air, Festival 'City Visions', Melechen, Belgium
Several Silences, Renaissance Society, Chicago
2009
Uncle Jack, Mom & Steve, The Apartment, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
Art 40 Basel, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Conflicting Tales, Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Until the End of the world, AMP Gallery, Athens, Greece
Volume(s), Casino Luxembourg. Forum d' Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Gravity. Colección Ernesto Esposito, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Pop! goes the wease!,Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Blasted Allegories. Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
The order of things, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Who’s got the Big Picture?, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Heavy Metal. Über die unerklärbare Leichtigkeit eines Materials, Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, germany
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Group Show, Zurich, Switzerland
Double Album. Daniel Guzman and Steven Shearer, The New Museum, New York (solo)
2008
Double Album. Daniel Guzman and Steven Shearer, MUCA. University Museum of Arts and Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
Listen Darling… The World is Yours, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugal
Collection XVIII, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
Oh My God!, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway
Common Threads, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PE, USA
Out of Art, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Who’s got the Big Picture?, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp
Sweet Bird Of Youth, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
The Power Plant, Toronto (solo)
One-artist shows, De Appel. Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (solo)
2007
Poems, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Great Britain (solo)
Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London (solo)
Writing in Strobe, Dicksmith Gallery, London
Canada Dreaming. Zukunftsgedanken und Wunschphantasien von Künstlern des grössten Staats Amerika, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Von Mäusen und Menschen, 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Trial Balloons, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Léon, Leon, Spain
Thank You For The Music, Sprüth Magers Lee, London
Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London
Franco Noero Gallery, Torino, Italy (solo)
2006
Sobey Award Show, Museum of Fine Art, Montréal
Classified Materials: Accumulations, Archives, Artists, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Drunk vs. Stoned 2 at, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
Suburbia, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna
Bridge Freezes Before Road, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Gallery Side2, Tokyo
Interdial, MUHKA Museum, Antwerp
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary/AB, Canada (solo)
Always crashing in the same car, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
2005
Thank You For The Music, Sprüth Magers Galerie, Munich
Post no Bills, White Columns, New York
Goodwater Gallery, Toronto/ON, Canada (solo)
CAG Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver/BC, USA (solo)
Re-play, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Baja to Vancouver, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Art Statements, Art 35, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
33 Person Drawing exhbition, Galleria Roma Roma Roma, Rome
2004
Pin up: Contemporary Art and Collage, Tate Modern, London
So Close Far Away, Bard Collge, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, USA
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich
F-Space, University of Southern California, USA
Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, USA
Soundtracks, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada (travelling exhibition)
Gallery Side2, Tokyo, Japan
Black Rainbow, Lucky Tackle, (cur. By Anne Collier), Oakland, New Zealand
Seattle Art Museum, 'Baha to Vancouver, Seattle (travelling exhibition)
Adolescent Actionism, Issue Project Space, (cur. By Jack Pierson), New York City, USA
Re-play, Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, USA
2003
Go Johnny Go! – Die E-Gitarre – Kunst und Mythos, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
2002
Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
American Fine Arts Co., New York/NY, USA (solo)
Rock My World: Recent Art and the Memory of Rock’n’Roll, CCAC Wattis Institute, (cur. by Ralph Rugoff), San Francisco, USA
2001
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, USA
Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver/BC, USA (solo)
2000
Swinging Lumpen, Or Gallery, Vancouver/BC, USA (solo)
Message by Eviction, Illingwoth Kerr Gallery, ACAD, Gallery AB
EAST International Exhibition, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich Gallery Norwich UK
American Fine Arts, Co., New York/NY, USA (solo)
1999
Craftmonster, Monte Clark Gallery Vancouver, BC
The High Life, Monte Clark Gallery Vancouver, Canada
1998
6: New Vancouver Modern, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery Vancouver, BC
1996
Perspective 96, Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, ON
The Young Contemporaries, London Regional Art and Historical Museums London, ON
S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto/ON, Canada (solo)
David Clarkson, Steven Shearer, Ian Wallace, SL Simpson Gallery Toronto, ON
1995
S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto/ON, Canada (solo)
Protective Covering, University of Vermont Art Gallery Vermont, USA
Type-Cast: Ron Terada, Julie Arnold, Steven Shearer, Charles H. Scott Gallery Vancouver, BC
Dark Memories, Marc Foxx Gallery, curated by Larry Johnson Los Angeles, CA
Protective Covering, University of Vermont Art Gallery Vancouver, BC
S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto/ON, Canada (solo)
1994
Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver, BC
1992
Perel Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver/BC, USA (solo)
Atelier Gallery Vancouver, BC
1991
Gallery 3 Vancouver, BC
1990
Atropolis 90 Vancouver, BC
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Literature
2006
Guys. Insert Steven Shearer, in: Parkett, no. 76, Zurich/New York 2006, pp. 169-180
Walsh, Meeka, Artist Portfolio: The Poetics of Impoverishment, in: Border Crossings. A Magazine of the Arts, no. 96, Winnipeg/CDN, February 2006, pp. 64-73
Roelstraete, Dieter, Death Drives, Difference, Nothingness. Dieter Roelstraete Ponders the Work of Steven Shearer', in: A Prior Magazine, no. 12, Brussels, January/February 2006, pp. 103-135
2005
Dexter, Emma (ed.), Vitamin D. New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon, London 2005
Campbell, Deborah, Steven Shearer: Bastard Offspring of the Photoconceptualists, in: Canadian Art, Toronto, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall 2005, pp. 94-97
Roberts, Bill, Sounds like teen spirit, (exh. review) in: ArtReview, March 2005, p. 27
Bonnet Frédéric, Artist profile, French Vogue, Paris, March 2005
Brayshaw, Christopher, „Pay Attention, Mother Fuckers!“ (exh. review), January 2005
2004
CAG Contemporary Art Gallery (ed.), Steven Shearer, Vancouver: CAG Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 2004 (exh. cat.)
2003
Kunsthalle Wien (ed.), Go Johnny Go! Die E-Gitarre – Kunst und Mythos. Wien: Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 2003
