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
Thomas Park Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The Cat Came Back, Castle, Los Angeles
Recording, Fortnight Institute, NY
Empty Boat, KOKI Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Time Stamp, Herron School of Art + Design, Indiana University
Magnolias All At Once, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY Editions of You, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL Opportunity Cost, A\M Projects, Indianapolis, IN
Family Resemblance, ATM, Austin, TX
Selected group exhibitions
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
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
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
Maelstom, curated by Fortnight Institute, 303 Gallery, New York, NY Zwag Curated by Kylie Manning, CG Boerner, New York, NY
Adrian, George, Peter, Sofia e Tamina, P420 Galleria, Bologna, Italy
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
Say Yes, curated by Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit ONLY Small Paintings, Fortnight Institute, New York, 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
Peer Review, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College of London, England
Brute Moderates, Clinton King & Peter Shear, Firework Space, Brooklyn, NY
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 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