John Spears was born in El Paso, Texas. In 1975 he graduated with distinction in studio fine arts from Stanford University. Upon graduating from Stanford, he established a studio in San Francisco and completed numerous commissions on the West Coast some of which included Apple Computer first headquarters, Artelonics and Price Waterhouse. His works were selected in the international competition by the curator Henry Hopkins for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and he also had a solo show at the San Jose Museum of Art. In the last 35 years he has resided on the East Coast in New Jersey and completed numerous commissions throughout the region including Nabisco Brands, Rutgers University, Montclair State University George Segal Gallery, DuPont Corp., Ortho, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Smith Kline Beecham, HOK, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, the Hellier Group, IBM, Neustar, Turner Construction, the Morristown Museum and the Hunterdon Museum in New Jersey.