Mala Iqbal

Mala Iqbal was born in the Bronx in 1973 and grew up in a household where three cultures and four languages intersected.

She will have a solo show at Soloway Gallery in Brooklyn, NY in September 2022. Other solo shows were at 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 with Angela Dufresne was shown in October 2021 at the Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, SUNY Purchase and will be exhibited at LSU’s Glassell Gallery in Baton Rouge in 2023. 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 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 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship in Painting in 2008.

Mala Iqbal lives and works in New York City.

Submitted by The Fine Arts Work Center