Rose Malenfant (b. 1997 Albany, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Brooklyn. Her sculptural practice deconstructs our relationship with mass production and consumption through rituals mimicking rhythms of the kitchen, body and earth. Rose uses a variety of techniques and materials including food scraps, wax, bioplastic, nylon hosiery, gravity and time.
Rose is a recipient of the 2026 Powerhouse Arts Artist Subsidy Program and has completed residencies with Textile Arts Center and Beam Center. Her work has been exhibited throughout the country including at the World Trade Center, Silver Arts Projects, El Barrio Art Space, and Tempest Gallery. She has received awards from The Art Students League of New York, Agrichampions in food innovation, and the International Society of Experimental Artists. Rose continues to invest in her practice with the Textile Study Group of New York and Women Sculptors Group NY.
Rose also works mentoring young artists through climate projects and public art with Beam Center, and has hosted public programming at the Brooklyn Museum, Arts Letters and Numbers and Pratt Institute. Rose's curatorial work includes exhibitions "Semi-Permeable" at Living Skin, "Propagation- Suspended Roots" at Studio 9D, and “Body as a Conduit” at Textile Arts Center.