1968    born in New Westminster, Canada
1992    Emily Carr College of Art & Design, BFA (studio)
1991    Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art c/o NASCAD
            New York Summer Studio Programm

            lives and works in Vancouver

2011

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

2010

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, ’Geometric Healing’, Zurich

2008

MUCA. University Museum of Arts and Sciences, 'Double Album. Daniel Guzman and Steven Shearer', Mexico City
The New Museum, 'Double Album. Daniel Guzman and Steven Shearer', New York

2007

The Power Plant, Toronto
Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London
Ikon Gallery, ’Poems’, Birmingham
De Appel. Center for Contemporary Art, ’one-artist shows’, Amsterdam

2006

Franco Noero Gallery, Torino

2005

Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

2004

CAG Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Art 35, 'Art Statements', Basel
Goodwater Gallery, Toronto

2003

Galleria Franco Noero, Torino
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica

2002

Mars Gallery, Tokyo
American Fine Arts Co., New York

2001

Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2000

Or Gallery, ’Swinging Lumpen’, Vancouver, BC

1999

American Fine Arts, Co., New York City

1996

S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto

1994

S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto

1992

Perel Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

2010

Seattle Art Museum, ’Kurt’, Seattle, WA
KOG - Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, ’Permanent Trouble - Aktuelle Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp’, Regensburg
National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, ’Contemporary Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada’, Ottawa, ON
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, ’Sur le dandysme aujourd'hui: From Shop Window Mannequin to Media Star’, A Coruña

2009

Rubell Family Collection, ’Beg Borrow and Steal’, Miami, FL
Burger Collection, ’Conflicting Tales’, Berlin
Art 40 Basel, Art Unlimited, Basel
AMP Gallery, ’Until the End of the world’, Athens
Renaissance Society, ’Several Silences’, Chicago
MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, ’All That Is Solid Melts Into Air’, Antwerpen
Contemporary Art Museum, ’Video A - Harry Shearer: The Silent Echo Chamber Aldrich’, Ridgefield
Festival 'City Visions', Melechen, 'All that is Solid Melts Into Air', Belgium

2008

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Group Show, Zurich
Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, 'Heavy Metal. Über die unerklärbare Leichtigkeit eines Materials', Kiel
Ellipse Foundation, ’Listen Darling… The World is Yours’, Alcoitão
MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, ’The order of things’, Antwerp
Kunstmuseum Luzern, 'Blasted Allegories. Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier', Luzern
Badischer Kunstverein, 'Pop! goes the wease!", Karlsruhe
ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, ’Gravity. Colección Ernesto Esposito’, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Casino Luxembourg. Forum d' Art Contemporain, 'Volume(s)', Luxembourg
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Who’s got the Big Picture?, Antwerp

2007

Arndt & Partner, 'Sweet Bird Of Youth', Berlin
MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, ’ Who’s got the Big Picture?’, Antwerp
Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, ’Out of Art’, Biel/Bienne
Confederation Centre of the Arts, ’Common Threads’, Charlottetown, PE
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, ’Oh My God!’, Vestfossen
De Appel, Steven Shearer / Erik Parker, Amsterdam
House Eva Presenhuber, 'Jubilee Exhibition', Vnà, Switzerland
Galerie Yvonne Lambert, 'Mario Testino: At Home', New York
The Balmoral, 'Despite The Light', Venice/ CA

2006

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, ’Sobey Art Award 2006’, Montreal, QC
Stuart Shave / Modern Art, Group Show, London
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, ’Sound and Vision’, Montreal, QC
Simon Lee Gallery, ’Thank you for the music (London beat)’, London
Sprüth Magers London, ’Thank you for the music (London beat)’, London
Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, ’People’, Naples
MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Léon, 'Trial Balloons', Leon, Spain
Dicksmith Gallery, 'Writing in Strobe', London
4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Von Mäusen und Menschen, Berlin
Kunstverein Wolfsburg, ’Canada Dreaming. Zukunftsgedanken und Wunschphantasien von Künstlern des grössten Staats Amerika', Wolfsburg

2005

MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, ’Intertidal - Vancouver Art Now’, Antwerp
Sprüth Magers Projekte, 'Thank You For The Music', Munich
The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, ’All The Pretty Corpses’, Chicago, IL
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, 'Always crashing in the same car', Copenhagen
Vancouver Art Gallery, 'Classified Materials: Accumulations, Archives, Artists', Vancouver, BC
Galleria Franco Noero, ’Omaggio al quadrato’ Turin
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, ’Drunk vs. Stoned’, New York City, NY
Die Sammlung der EVN - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig – MUMOK, ’Nach Rokytnik’, Vienna
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, ’Recent Aquisitions’, Vancouver, BC
White Columns, ’Post no Bills’, New York City, NY
Gallery Side2; Tokyo
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 'Bridge Freezes Before Road', New York
Galerie Lisa Ruyter, 'Suburbia', Vienna
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna

2004

Tate Modern, ’Untitled - Pin Up - Contemporary Collage and Drawing’, London (England)
Ottawa Art Gallery, ’Re-play’, Ottawa, ON
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, ’Baja to Vancouver’, San Francisco, CA
Galleria Roma Roma Roma, '33 Person Drawing exhibition', Rome
Bard Collge, 'So Close Far Away', Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

2003

Kunsthalle Wien, 'Go Johnny Go! – Die E-Gitarre – Kunst und Mythos', Vienna
Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto, ’Re-play’, Mississauga, ON
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, 'Breathing the Water', Zurich
Issue Project Space, 'Adolescent Actionism (cur. By Jack Pierson), New York City
Seattle Art Museum, 'Baha to Vancouver, Seattle (travelling exhibition)
Lucky Tackle, 'Black Rainbow', (cur. By Anne Collier), Oakland
Galleria Franco Noero, Torino
Gallery Side2, Tokyo
Edmonton Art Gallery, 'Soundtracks', Edmonton, Canada (travelling exhibition)
Mars Gallery, Tokyo
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica
Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver
F-Space, University of Southern California, USA

2002

CCAC Wattis Institute, 'Rock My World: Recent Art and the Memory of Rock’n’Roll' (cur. by Ralph Rugoff), San Francisco

2001

Pat Hearn Gallery, New York

2000

llingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary

1999

The Gallery at Norwich University, Norwich School of Art, 'East International 1999', (cur. by Peter Doig and Roy Arden), Norwich

1998

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, '6: New Vancouver Modern', Vancouver, BC

1996

Art Gallery of Ontario, 'New Perspectives', Toronto

1995

London Regional Museum, 'Young Contemporaries', London / Ontario (travelling exhibition)
Marc Foxx Gallery, 'Dark Memories' (cur. by Larry Johnson)', Los Angeles
University of Vermont Art Gallery, 'Protective Covering', Vermont
C. H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, 'Typecast', Vancouver

1994

CAG Contemporary Art Gallery, 'Three Artists', Vancouver