Avi Saliman is a Brooklyn-based artist working primarily in sculptural and drawn media. He earned a BFA from Parsons School of Design and has participated in programs such as the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s Studio Project. As an emerging artist in New York City, Saliman has exhibited work at institutions including Greenpoint Gallery and the Anna Maria & Stephen Kellen Gallery. He previously was studio assistant to multidisciplinary artist, Diana Shpungin, and heavily assisted Shpungin on the execution of her 2022 solo exhibition at Smack Mellon. Born outside of Boulder, Colorado, Saliman moved to New York in 2017.

Saliman’s practice aims to explore shifting paradigms of the contemporary world and create new contexts that exist in-between and in the margins of socially and physically constructed life. His work relies heavily on existing objects, investigating the histories of their designs and interrogating the contexts in which they were produced and in which they’ve existed. The built world is a base from which Saliman’s work creeps into an esoteric exploration of cultural paradoxes and psychological impulses. In the face of advancing digitization, physical objects serve as metaphor in a way not possible in a pre-digital time. Themes such as the overstimulation and oversaturation of contemporary life - both in the physical and online spheres - are explored while the Digital is outright challenged through a decidedly analog form.