Inman Gallery is pleased to present One Sun, One Shadow, a solo exhibition of work by Shane Lavalette, on view April 22 – May 31, 2025. Please join us on May 10 for an artist talk: Shane Lavalette in conversation with Jon Evans, Chief of Libraries & Archives at the Museum of Fine Arts. Houston. The program will be followed by an artist reception to celebrate.
Starting in 2010, Shane Lavalette was commissioned by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to create a new series of photographs for their 2012 exhibition, “Picturing the South.” Lavalette’s project, One Sun, One Shadow, is an extension of this body of work. Native to the Northeast, it was primarily through traditional music — the sounds of old time, blues, and gospel — that Lavalette had formed a relationship with the South. With that in mind, the region’s rich musical history became the natural entry point for this project and the resulting photographs. While One Sun, One Shadow has been exhibited several times throughout the US and Europe, this is the project's debut installation in Houston where Lavalette is currently based.
Shane Lavalette (b. 1987, Burlington, VT) is a visual artist working in photography and books. He holds a BFA from Tufts University in partnership with The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lavalette’s photographs have been shown widely, including exhibitions at the High Museum of Art, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Aperture Foundation, Montserrat College of Art, The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kaunas Gallery, Le Château d’Eau, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Musée de l’Elysée, and Robert Morat Galerie, in addition to being held in private and public collections.
Lavalette is the author of four award-winning monographs: One Sun, One Shadow (Lavalette, 2016), Still (Noon) (Edition Patrick Frey, 2018), LOST, Syracuse (Kris Graves Projects, 2019), and New Monuments (Libraryman, 2019). He is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, among other awards. Lavalette's work has been featured by The New York Times, TIME, NPR, CNN, The Telegraph, Aperture, Foam Magazine, Hotshoe, among others, and his editorial work has accompanied stories in various publications, including The New York Times Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Esquire, Bloomberg Businessweek, Curbed, Vice Magazine, The Wire, Wallpaper, Monocle, The Guuardian, and ZEITmagazin.
