Join us for our first Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture of the season. New York-based artist Rose Salane will discuss her thinking and process behind her exhibition Fission or, Eclipse, on display at the Athenaeum and opening on September 12 at 6 pm.

About the artist

Rose Salane is an artist living and working in New York, NY. In her practice, Salane places systems of value and exchange alongside sentiment and loss to reflect on the conditions that shape life in cities. Solo presentations of Salane’s work have been held at Tank Shanghai, CN (2024); Carlos/Ishikawa, UK (2023); Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2021); and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (2019). In 2021, her work was featured in the New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, NY, and in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. In 2022, she was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Salane completed her MA in Urban Planning at Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CUNY, and her BFA at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.