Peter Shear

Biography

° Beverly Farms, Massachusetts

Lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana.

Peter Shear, a self-taught artist, his select solo exhibitions include Thomas Park Gallery, Seoul, Korea (2023); The Cat Came Back, Castle, Los Angeles (2022); Recording, Fortnight Institute, NY (2021); Empty Boat, KOKI Arts, Tokyo, Japan (2021); Time Stamp, Herron School of Art + Design, Indiana University (2019); Magnolias All At Once, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY (2017). He has also been included in numerous group exhibitions, most recently: The Feminine in Abstract Painting, The Pat Passlof and Milton Resnick Foundation, New York, NY (2023); Regarding Kimber, Cheim & Read, New York, NY (2022).

Exhibitions

Real Life
Group exhibition 25 Feb - 26 Mar 2023 New South
Ilse D’Hollander with Lois Dodd, Christopher Colm Morrin, Jesse Murry, Heidrun Rathgeb, Peter Shear, Trevor Shimizu, Frank Walter. Real Life brings together a group of eight artists of different generations and from different geographies who, like Ilse D’Hollander, use paint to engage with reality in its most porous and capacious...
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Works

Bibliography

Solo exhibitions
2023	Thomas Park Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2022	The Cat Came Back, Castle, Los Angeles
2021	Recording, Fortnight Institute, NY
2021	Empty Boat, KOKI Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2019	Time Stamp, Herron School of Art + Design, Indiana University
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	Family Resemblance, ATM, Austin, TX
Selected group exhibitions
2023	The Feminine in Abstract Painting, curated by Andrea Belag & Jennifer Samet, The Pat Passlof and Milton Resnick Foundation, New York, NY Real Life, Ilse D'Hollander in dialogue, Curated by Wells Fray-Smith, Galerie Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium The Sense of Sight: Landscape, the City, and Abstraction, Make Room, Los Angeles
2022	Regarding Kimber, curated by Jay Gorney, Cheim & Read, New York, NY Small Paintings, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, KOKI Arts, Tokyo Beyond Genres: Self-Taught Artists Creating Contemporary Art, curated by Paul Laster, Outsider Art Fair, NYC
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, curated by Sam Gordon, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
2020	Maelstom, curated by Fortnight Institute, 303 Gallery, New York, NY Zwag Curated by Kylie Manning, CG Boerner, New York, NY
2019	Adrian, George, Peter, Sofia e Tamina, P420 Galleria, Bologna, Italy
2018	Locus Focus: Peter Shear and Arvind Sundararajan, curated by Emil Robinson, 840 Gallery, University of Cincinnati. Lonely Planet, curated by Andrew Brischler, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2017	Say Yes, curated by Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit ONLY Small Paintings, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2016	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, England
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

Peter Shear b. 1980

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