1992, Emily Carr College of Art & Design, BFA (studio), Vancouver/BC, Canada
1991, Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art c/o NASCAD New York Summer Studio Programm, New York/NY, USA
lives and works in Vancouver/BC, Canada
Solo Exhibitions
2013
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa/ON, Canada
2012
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/NY, USA
2011
54th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale de Venezia, Canada Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2010
Geometric Healing, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2008
Double Album. Daniel Guzman and Steven Shearer, MUCA. University Museum of Arts and Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico
Double Album. Daniel Guzman and Steven Shearer, New Museum, New York/NY, USA
2007
The Power Plant, Toronto/ON, Canada
Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, Great Britain
Poems, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Great Britain
One-artist shows, De Appel. Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2006
Franco Noero Gallery, Torino, Italy
2005
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary/AB, Canada
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2004
CAG Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver/BC, USA
Art Statements, Art 35, Basel, Switzerland
Goodwater Gallery, Toronto/ON, Canada
2003
Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica/CA, USA
2002
Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
American Fine Arts Co., New York/NY, USA
2001
Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver/BC, USA
2000
Swinging Lumpen, Or Gallery, Vancouver/BC, USA
1999
American Fine Arts, Co., New York/NY, USA
1996
S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto/ON, Canada
1994
S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto/ON, Canada
1992
Perel Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver/BC, USA
Group Exhibitions
2010
Fresh Hell – Carte Blanche à Adam McEwen, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle/WA, USA
Permanent Trouble - Aktuelle Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp, KOG - Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
Contemporary Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa/ON, Canada
Sur le dandysme aujourd'hui: From Shop Window Mannequin to Media Star, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, A Coruña. Spain
2009
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami/FL, USA
Conflicting Tales, Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany
Art 40 Basel, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Until the End of the world, AMP Gallery, Athens, Greece
Several Silences, Renaissance Society, Chicago/IL, USA
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Video A - Harry Shearer: The Silent Echo Chamber, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield/CT, USA
All that is Solid Melts Into Air, Festival City Visions, Melechen, Belgium
2008
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Group Show, Zurich, Switzerland
Heavy Metal. Über die unerklärbare Leichtigkeit eines Materials, Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany
Listen Darling… The World is Yours, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugual
The order of things, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Blasted Allegories. Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Pop! goes the wease!, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Gravity. Colección Ernesto Esposito, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country
Volume(s), Casino Luxembourg. Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Who’s got the Big Picture?, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
2007
Sweet Bird Of Youth, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
Who’s got the Big Picture?, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Out of Art, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Common Threads, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown/PE, USA
Oh My God!, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway
Steven Shearer / Erik Parker, De Appel. Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Jubilee Exhibition, House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, Switzerland
Mario Testino: At Home, Galerie Yvonne Lambert, New York/NY, USA
Despite The Light, The Balmoral, Venice/ CA, USA
2006
Sobey Art Award 2006, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal/QC, Canada
Stuart Shave / Modern Art, Group Show, London, Great Britain
Sound and Vision, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal/QC, Canada
Thank you for the music (London beat), Simon Lee Gallery, London, Great Britain
Thank you for the music (London beat), Sprüth Magers London, London, Great Britain
People, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, Naples, Italy
Trial Balloons, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Léon, Leon, Spain
Writing in Strobe, Dicksmith Gallery, London, Great Britain
Von Mäusen und Menschen, 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Canada Dreaming. Zukunftsgedanken und Wunschphantasien von Künstlern des grössten Staats Amerika, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2005
Intertidal - Vancouver Art Now, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Thank You For The Music, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
All The Pretty Corpses, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago/IL, USA
Always crashing in the same car, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Norway
Classified Materials: Accumulations, Archives, Artists, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver/BC, USA
Omaggio al quadrato, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York/NY, USA
Nach Rokytnik, Die Sammlung der EVN - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig – MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
Recent Aquisitions, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver/BC, Canada
Post no Bills, White Columns, New York/NY, USA
Gallery Side2, Tokyo, Japan
Bridge Freezes Before Road, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Suburbia, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2004
Untitled - Pin Up - Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Tate Modern, London, Great Britain
Re-play, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa/ON, Canada
Baja to Vancouver, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco/CA, USA
33 Person Drawing exhibition, Galleria Roma Roma Roma, Rome, Italy
So Close Far Away, Bard Collge, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York/NY, USA
2003
Go Johnny Go! – Die E-Gitarre – Kunst und Mythos, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Re-play, Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto, Mississauga/ON, Canada
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Adolescent Actionism, Issue Project Space, New York/NY, USA (curated by Jack Pierson)
Baha to Vancouver, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle/WA, USA
Black Rainbow, Lucky Tackle, Oakland/CA, USA (curated by Anne Collier)
Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
Gallery Side2, Tokyo, Japan
Soundtracks, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica/CA, USA
Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver/BC, Canada
F-Space, University of Southern California, Los Angeles/CA, USA
2002
Rock My World: Recent Art and the Memory of Rock’n’Roll, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco/CA, USA (curated by Ralph Rugoff)
2001
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York/NY, USA
2000
llingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary
1999
East International 1999, The Gallery at Norwich University, Norwich School of Art, Norwich, Great Britain (curated by Peter Doig and Roy Arden)
1998
6: New Vancouver Modern, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver/BC, Canada
1996
New Perspectives, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, USA
1995
Young Contemporaries, London Regional Museum, London
Dark Memories, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles/CA, USA (curated by Larry Johnson)
Protective Covering, University of Vermont Art Gallery, Burlington/VT, USA
Typecast, C. H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver/BC, Canada
1994
Three Artists, CAG Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver/BC, Canada