Shane Darwent
Biography
Shane Darwent is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice mines the commercial vernacular that lines American roadways to inform experimental photographic works, large-scale sculpture, and site-responsive installations. Within a landscape designed to overwhelm, Darwent’s practice seeks out a redacted formalism in order to meditate on the transitional nature of these spaces and the shape-shifting economic constructs of which they are a part.
Exhibiting internationally, Darwent has been an artist-in-residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Ragdale, the Ucross Foundation and the Jentel Artist Residency Program, as well as a Core Fellow at Penland School of Crafts. He holds an MFA from the University of Michigan (2017) and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2005). He is a 2022 Joan Mitchell Fellow and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship from 2018-2024. In 2022, he embarked on an expansive collaboration with the fashion house Saint Laurent to create site-specific sculptures for their flagship storefronts in over fourteen, international locations. In 2024, Darwent completed a large-scale, permanent installation for the Tulsa International Airport consisting of thirty-four, motor driven resin panels whose choreographed motion spans 120’ across the airport’s main hall. He currently lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
