Alexis Sablone Inducted Into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame

Artist, designer, architect and Olympic skateboarder Alexis Sablone has been inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame. SHoF announced the Class of 2026 inductees on January 15 on its website and social media. The group includes 18 figures who, according to SHoF, “have shaped skateboarding’s culture, progress and global influence.”

The induction ceremony will be held on May 15 at Vans headquarters in Costa Mesa, California.

Sablone is perhaps best known for his 2023 slide down the spiral ramp of the Solomon F. Guggenheim Museum to the art-viewing public. The stunt was to promote their first skate shoe design, Converse’s AS-1. Since then, they have collaborated with Converse on several occasions.

Sablon, a seven-time X Games women’s skateboard medalist and a fourth-place finisher at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from Barnard College and MIT. Their work as designers and architects brings together public art and the world of skateboarding through projects such as Surrealism 2021 lady in the squarea skating sculpture in Värnhemstorget, a public square in Malmö, Sweden, and Candy Courta skate park located in Lander Park in Montclair, New Jersey.

Skateboarding,” Sablone writes on their website, “if nothing else, provides an interesting case study for designers, as the skateboard space has always shown itself to be creatively used, shared, and loved by a broad, diverse, and growing community. This diverse user base—spanning the spectrum of skill levels, ages, races, and genders—demonstrates the potential of public play spaces, not just for skateboarders, but for everyone else as well. ”