Steven Shearer b. 1968

Steven Shearer first rose to prominence in the early 2000s with a body of work rooted in a personal and idiosyncratic engagement with 1970s teen culture and the raw aesthetic of the heavy metal underground .

Mining this subcultural terrain for visual and symbolic connections to the history of painting, Shearer has developed a transhistorical approach to image-making that fuses the everyday with the art historical canon.

Steven Shearer's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at leading institutions around the world, affirming his significance in contemporary art. 

Most recently, in 2024, Sleep, Death’s Own Brother was presented at The George Economou Collection in Athens, coinciding with the publication of Steven Shearer: Working from Life, a major monograph released by DCV. That same year, Shearer debuted Profaned Travelers at David Zwirner, New York. 

In 2016, the Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich, Connecticut, hosted a retrospective that spanned paintings, drawings, collages, and poems, accompanied by a comprehensive monograph.