Rose Salane was born in 1992 in New York City where she currently lives and works. Salane received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2014 and her MA in Urban Planning from the CUNY Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture in 2019. Using collections of quotidien objects as her entry point, the artist excavates the systems of evaluation, exchange, and organization that shape urban life. Salane’s investigations demonstrate the ways in which larger bureaucratic forces order human activity and the perseverance of humanity in the face of those automated and alienating structures. Extensively researching, analyzing, and categorizing objects and information, the artist forms often poignant connections between the personal and institutional and the mundane and globally impactful.