Having lived in New Orleans before and after catastrophic Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city in 2005, much of Ivor Shearer’s film and video work deals with displacement and the socio-political after-effects of the storm. A graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2011, he holds a MFA from Columbia University and is recipient of a 2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation artist grant. Now based in Houston, his work has been exhibited extensively, including Rewrite/Redraw/Retool (2011), Vita Kuben at Norslands Operan in Umea, Sweden;Below Sea Level (2010) at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; A Camel Is a Horse Designed by a Committee (2009) at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice; Lost in Your Eyes (2008) at the Nieman Gallery, New York; and Artists Respond to Hurricane Katrina(2007) at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University.
