Darling Shear is a Chicago Native, but has roots in Atlanta where Darling started dance training. Darling attended North Springs Charter School of the performing arts where Darling was trained in Ballet, Modern, Jazz and African. Darling began dancing professionally right out of high school and in that time worked with many great choreographers. Highlights were working with Bubba Carr choreographer/artistic director to Cher for 12yrs and counting, Rhonda Henriksen soloist with Hubbard Street and Twyla Tharp, Tracy Vogt former Philadanco dancer, Hinton Battle the Original Scarecrow from the broadway production of The Wiz, and Lauri Stallings, Hubbard Street soloist and founder/artistic director of gloATL. Darling moved back to Chicago the summer of 2011 to start Suna Dance, a collaborative artist group and had the first performance in November of 2011. In 2018 Darling was chosen as the cover model and also quoted in Micah Salkind's Oxford published book Do You Remember House?: Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds. Afterwards, Darling received the Between Gestures scholarship to Austria to attend Impulstanz in Vienna, the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award, and Links Hall CoMission Fellowship (2020), along with a 3Arts nomination (2019). Darling’s career has been one with a strong spiritual center and allowance of universal well-being.