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Great Hall Exhibition Series Spring 2025

Rose Salane
Periphery in Red, Yellow, Blue

About Rose Salane

Rose Salane (b.1992, New York, USA) works with accumulated sets of objects from individuals, auctions, and institutions, exploring memory and reflecting on life in urban environments. Salane completed her MA in Urban Planning at Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CUNY in 2020 and her BFA at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2014.

Salane’s work is exhibited internationally and solo presentations of her work have been held at: The Athenaeum at University of Georgia, Athens (2024); Tank, Shanghai, China (2024); and Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK (2023). Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI (2025); Mass MoCA, Massachusetts, MA (2024); The Whitney Biennial, Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY (2022) and The New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, New York NY (2021). Salane has held residential fellowships at The Villa Medici in Rome, Italy, (2023) and Pompeii Commitment, Archeologie Matters, Pompeii, Italy (2022). Her work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

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Rose Salane
Carlos/Ishikawa

Portait of the artist in front of her work.

Previous Work

Abstract loose grid like oattern with red cross in the middle.
64,000 Attempts at Circulation, 2022
“Slugs” (counterfeit currency used to trick coin-operated devices) acquired from a New York City MTA asset-recovery auction, steel tables, screen prints on archival paper, framed Installation View, Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Image courtesy of the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa
Detail of 64,000 Attempts at Circulation, 2022
Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Image courtesy of the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa
Confession 1, 2023
C-Print
Returned fragment of Pompeii, Courtesy the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, 2023
30 ⅝ in x 42 ¾ in x 1 ⅞ in Framed
Image courtesy the artist, Carlos/Ishikawa, and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii
Basins of Attraction, 2023
C-Prints of Returned fragments of Pompeii and 63 security cameras purchased from a NYC government auction.
Installation view at Carlos/Ishikawa Gallery
Image courtesy the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa
Fission or, Eclipse 2024
Installation view
The Athenaeum, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
“I wish you could have seen them”(part 2), 2024 (series of four photograms)
30 x 50 in
Photogram on archival photo paper using NYC traffic light lenses