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Steven Shearer

STEVEN SHEARER

My Moody Muse David Zwirner 4 June–31 July 2026 London
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David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Canadian artist Steven Shearer (b. 1968) at the gallery’s location in London. Across paintings, drawings, assemblages, sculptures, and installations, Shearer has developed a practice that weds canonical art history to the contemporary moment. His compositions engage classical subjects such as the artist in their studio and the Rückenfigur, emerging from an ongoing exploration of portraiture. In this presentation, Shearer will exhibit new figurative oil paintings alongside significant loans and a selection of drawings.

This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation in London since 2007. It follows Steven Shearer: Sleep, Death’s Own Brother at the George Economou Collection, Athens, which opened in 2023, and Steven Shearer: Profaned Travelers at David Zwirner New York, in 2024.

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Exhibition view: Steven Shearer, My Moody Muse, David Zwirner, London (4 June–31 July 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Steven Shearer, My Moody Muse, David Zwirner, London (4 June–31 July 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Steven Shearer, My Moody Muse, David Zwirner, London (4 June–31 July 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Steven Shearer, My Moody Muse, David Zwirner, London (4 June–31 July 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Steven Shearer, My Moody Muse, David Zwirner, London (4 June–31 July 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Steven Shearer, My Moody Muse, David Zwirner, London (4 June–31 July 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
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About the Artist

Steven Shearer was born in New Westminster, Canada, in 1968 and earned his BFA in 1992 from the Emily Carr University of Art & Design in Vancouver, where he continues to live and work.

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About the Gallery
Since opening its doors in 1993, David Zwirner has been home to innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. The gallery has helped foster the careers of some of the most influential artists working today, and has maintained long-term representation of a wide-ranging, international group of artists and estates. Based in New York with spaces in Chelsea and the Upper East Side, David Zwirner expanded to Europe in 2012 with a gallery in an eighteenth-century Georgian townhouse in London’s Mayfair district, and opened its first gallery in Asia in January 2018 in Central Hong Kong.
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