Steven Shearer is a contemporary artist based in Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, British Columbia

British Columbia

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. He has exhibited internationally, including the Tate Modern

Tate Modern

Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...

 in London, The New Museum, the Barbara Gladstone Gallery

Barbara Gladstone

Barbara Gladstone is an American gallery owner and art dealer. She owns the Gladstone Gallery on W. 24th St in New York City which was designed by Selldorf Architects, and she represents many popular contemporary artists, including Shirin Neshat, Anish Kapoor, Sarah Lucas, and Matthew Barney...

 in New York, the Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich, and the Renaissance Society in Chicago

Chicago

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. Nationally, he has shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Art Gallery of Ontario

Under the direction of its CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO embarked on a $254 million redevelopment plan by architect Frank Gehry in 2004, called Transformation AGO. The new addition would require demolition of the 1992 Post-Modernist wing by Barton Myers and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg...

 in Toronto and the Contemporary Art Gallery

Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver)

The Contemporary Art Gallery is the only independent, non-profit public art gallery in downtown Vancouver. The CAG exhibits local, national, and international artists, primarily featuring emerging local artists producing Canadian contemporary art...

 in Vancouver. He is represented in London, New York, Turin, and Zurich.

Work

Shearer' photography, drawing, painting, and collage tend to focus on youth, alienation, aggression, melancholy, and heavy metal. In Artforum

Artforum

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, Matthew Higgs

Matthew Higgs

Matthew Higgs is a British artist, curator, writer and publisher. His contribution to UK contemporary art has included the creation of Imprint 93, a series of artists’ editions featuring the work of artists such as Martin Creed and Jeremy Deller...

 affectionately called Shearer the "bastard offspring of the Photo-conceptualists

Vancouver School

The Vancouver School of conceptual or post-conceptual photography is a loose term applied to a grouping of artists from Vancouver starting in the 1980s...

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Press

Deborah Campbell. “Steven Shearer: Bastard Offspring of the Photoconceptualists.” Canadian Art. Fall 2005.
Lupe Nunez-Fernandez. “Steven Shearer at Ikon, Birmingham.” Saatchi Gallery. Spring 2007.
“Steven Shearer.” The Power Plant. Winter 2007/2008.

External links

• Biography at Modern Art