Rose Malenfant (b. 1997 Albany, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice reinterprets rituals of the kitchen, textiles, and family memories to de-industrialize our relationship with consumption. She is interested in domestic rituals, origins, superstitions, and stories related to food and caretaking. Through installations ranging from dried fruit to vintage spoons, she tends to leaks in family memory and generational food wisdom.  

Rose is a recipient of the 2026 Powerhouse Arts Artist Subsidy Program and has completed residencies and fellowships with Manhattan Graphics Center, 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 has partnered with organizations leading community events at the Brooklyn Museum, Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, Arts Letters and Numbers and Embodied Earth. Rose continues to invest in her practice with the Textile Study Group of New York and Women Sculptors Group NY. Rose also works in program design and communications supporting organizations with climate projects and public art at Beam Center, and Textile Arts Center. 

Rose's curatorial work includes exhibitions “Body as a Conduit” at Textile Arts Center", Semi-Permeable", at Living Skin, and "Propagation- Suspended Roots" at Studio 9D in the West Chelsea Arts Building.