ABOUT:
Mala Iqbal was born in the Bronx in 1973 and grew up in a household where three cultures and four languages intersected. She has had solo exhibitions at JJ Murphy Gallery, Soloway Gallery, Ulterior Gallery, Bellwether Gallery, and PPOW in New York; Taylor University in Upland, Indiana; Twelve Gates Arts in Philadelphia; and Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles. A series of collaborative paintings, made with Angela Dufresne, was shown at LSU in Baton Rouge in 2023 as well as SUNY Purchase in 2021. Her work has been exhibited in group shows throughout the United States as well as in Australia, China, Europe, and India. Her work has been reviewed in various publications including The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and The New Yorker. Iqbal has been awarded artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center, and the Hermitage Artist Retreat. She received a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 2023 and a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship in Painting in 2008. Mala Iqbal lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.