Shannon Cleere is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work addresses socio-political issues affecting her immediate community, such as unpaid domestic labor, reproductive justice, and housing insecurity. Cleere’s work challenges the injustices inherent in societal norms and expectations, thus exposing how systems of power naturalize exploitation and inequality as ways of being. Research-based and diaristic, her work documents the minutia of her day-to-day life. She regularly integrates daily maintenance activities into her practice, whether archiving vacuum bag debris or reinstalling laundry piles in alternative sites, she repeatedly interrogates her domestic sphere. Screen printing with household dust or printing barely decipherable journal entries on transparent chiffon fabric, she draws attention to that which is not always visible, acknowledged, or valued. Cleere’s practice is inspired by her desire to place her experience as a first-generation woman and mother into a larger societal context.

Born to Irish parents, Shannon Cleere grew up in South America and Southeast Asia, moving to the US 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. In 2020, Cleere completed two years in the Core Drawing Atelier at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle. She earned her MFA in Visual Art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2024 and is a recipient of the Center for Arts + Social Justice Fellowship Grant from the VCFA Center for Arts + Social Justice. Cleere lives and works in Seattle, Washington.