Laurel Shear

Laurel Shear lives and works in the California Bay Area.  She opened her first New York solo show, Daydreaming In My Nightmare, at Fort Gansevoort in March 2018.  Recent exhibitions include Right Here Right Now, Richmond Art Center and NIAD (Richmond, CA) My Silences Had Not Protected Me, For Freedoms, Fort Gansevoort, (New York), Where Dreams Come True, TSA LA (Los Angeles), Push, Incline Gallery (San Francisco).  She is a former member of the artist run gallery Tiger Strikes Astroid in Los Angeles. Press for her work includes Artnet, New York Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, and Luxe Magazine, among others.  She facilitates drawing and painting workshops at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts. Shear was a competitive cheerleader, she’s an energy medicine practitioner, and a proud a mama.