Stapleton Kearns has participated in over twenty-five one man or small group exhibitions during the past ten years. He has twice shown in the biannual show of the National Academy of Design in New York City. The American Embassy in Moscow displayed one of his large snow scenes as an example of American painting in the Arts for the Embassies Program.
He is a member of the Guild of Boston Artists and has served for five years as the President of the Rockport Art Association. In 1974 he was one of the few students the representational painter, R.H. Ives Gammell agreed to teach during the latter years of his sixty-five year long career.