Shane Valentine

Biography

Shane Valentine (b. 1993, Los Angeles, USA) is an artist and researcher. He studied fine art and urban and regional studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed a pre-master's in urbanism and landscape architecture at the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. His practice explores the connections between nostalgia and world-building in architectural structures and decorative arts, as well as how spatial history is conveyed through sculpture, drawing, photography, and scenographic forms that merge memory, fantasy, and the urban landscape. 

His practice combines various assemblages of building elements, furniture features, and visual imagery from panoramic landscapes and skylines. Their recent body of work incorporates a diverse use of materials—wood, ceramics, and monochrome color-pencil drawings—framing fictional vignettes as sculptural drawings. He collages with their archival references—historical catalogs, films, paintings, and ornamental details—exterior and interior—as fragmented reflections in the absence of fidelity. The level of detail mediates the connection between the physical world and our subjective experience.  

Artist Statement

His practice combines various assemblages of building elements, furniture features, and visual imagery from panoramic landscapes and skylines. Their recent body of work incorporates a diverse use of materials – wood, ceramics, and monochrome color-pencil drawings – framing fictional vignettes as sculptural drawings. He collages their archival references – historical catalogs, films, paintings, and ornamental details – exterior and interior – as fragmented reflections in the absence of fidelity. The level of detail mediates the connection between the physical world and our subjective experience. Recreating the past allows individuals to indulge in the sensory pleasures of reliving both interior and urban experiences; perhaps this act of consumption reflects an infatuation that provides a means to encounter the sublime, while everything else in our peripheral vision seems mundane.