I am a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work explores my experience as a first-generation American woman, artist, and mother within a broader social context. Interested in the ways cultural inheritance and societal norms shape identity, I consider my role within a larger intergenerational legacy and contemplate the degree to which societal narratives represent or influence life choices. My work challenges the injustices inherent in many societal expectations, exposing how social constructs, often under the veil of tradition, can dictate how people live their lives. Research-based and diaristic, my work features written documentation of the minutiae of my daily life, visual representations of my living environment, personal belongings, and physical form. Employing strategies that expand on feminist discourses in art history, I regularly integrate daily maintenance activities into my practice. Whether archiving vacuum bag debris or reinstalling laundry piles in alternative sites, I repeatedly interrogate my domestic sphere. Screen printing with household dust or transferring barely decipherable journal entries onto transparent chiffon fabric, I draw attention to that which is not always visible, acknowledged, or valued.

Born to Irish parents, Shannon Cleere grew up in South America and Southeast Asia, moving to the United States to attend the Evergreen State College in Washington State. She completed her BA in Florence, Italy, at Lorenzo de’ Medici – The Italian International Institute, where she focused on fresco restoration, art history, and the Italian language. She earned her MFA in Visual Art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2024 and received the VCFA Center for Arts + Social Justice Fellowship Grant. Cleere is a co-founder of l l l Artist Fund, an artist grant provider, and is a Teaching Artist for Path with Art, a Seattle-based non-profit organization offering arts programming to individuals affected by trauma. Cleere has exhibited her work in cities across the US and was featured in Entre Rios Books’ 2023 City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson and Suboart Magazine’s May 2024 issue. Cleere lives and works in Seattle, Washington.