Shane Lavalette is an artist, curator, and digital-art advisor who co-founded Assembly Curated, described as the first curated fine-art photography NFT platform. Shane Lavalette's Twitter Score is 73 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #11,086 (top 5%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Shane Lavalette co-founded Assembly Curated alongside Ashlyn Davis Burns in March 2021 as a gallery, agency, and creative studio built around supporting artists, with a particular focus on fine-art photography and NFT drops. He served as its Co-founder and Director from 2021 through 2025, at which point Assembly was integrated into his own practice under Lavalette, which he founded. He also founded Lay Flat as its founding publisher and editor, and previously worked at Light Work as Director.
Shane Lavalette is a strategic advisor to Verse, a digital-art exhibition platform that records provenance for sold works on Ethereum. His photographic collection One Sun, One Shadow was released as NFTs on Foundation and acquired by RAW DAO, with which he is affiliated as a founding artist. He is also an artist member of GrailersDAO, and maintains an affiliation with the Houston Center for Photography. Assembly presented the 2023 exhibition Collecting the Future: Photography and Generative Art on the Blockchain, reflecting his sustained engagement with provenance, curation, and NFT collecting. Shane Lavalette has accumulated 9,815 followers as of September 2026 across 9,462 posts, and has been mentioned by 20 accounts a total of 64 times.
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