Peter Shear

Biography

Peter Shear °1980 Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.

Peter Shear is a self-taught artist who lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana. 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).

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

Artworks

Peter Shear
Untitled 2, 2022
Oil on canvas
28 x 40,5 cm

Peter Shear
Long Exposure, 2022
Oil on panel
25,5 x 20,5 cm

Peter Shear
Cousin, 2022
Oil on panel
40,5 x 30,5 cm