Education
1998
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
MFA, Painting
1995
Columbia University, New York, NY
BA, Visual Art and English
Honors
1999 - 2000
Visual Artist Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1998 - 1999
Visual Artist Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Solo Exhibitions
2007
Washed Away, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
2003
Misty, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Where, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001
super-natural, Artist Access Gallery, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
Fire Walkers, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Group show, Nature Morte, New Dehli, India
The Devotee Exhausts the Forces of Activity (Young, Female, South Asian),
Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, Australia
2006
Deluge, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Splendid Apocalypse, curated by Jason Murison,
P.P.O.W. Gallery, NY
Green to Green and Beyond, curated by Mary Dinaburg,
Gallery W 52, New York, NY
Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now, Queens Museum of Art
2004
NextNext Visual Art 2004, curated by Dan Cameron,
Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
The Sixth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, travelling exhibition,
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
Hello Chelsea, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Escape from New York, curated by Jason Murison,
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Out of Place: Mala Iqbal, Nicole Henning, Markus Weiss,
Staub (g*fzk!) - Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Publications
Mar/Apr 2008
Murtaza Vali, "Mala Iqbal: Washed Away," ArtAsiaPacific Magazine
Jan 7 2008
"Mala Iqbal," The New Yorker
Dec 26 2007
R.C. Baker, "Acid Reign," The Village Voice
Dec 19 2007
Murtaza Vali, "Mala Iqbal," Paper Magazine
Dec 14 2007
Raphael Risemberg, "Mala Iqbal," The New York Blade
Aug 1 2005
"The Most Splendid Apocalypse," The New Yorker
Nov 2004
Andra Bellni and Sonia Campagnola, "I Nuovissimi di New York," Flash Art Italia
Jan 2004
Peter Nagy, review, "Through Customs", Art Asia Pacific
Dec 2003
Hrag Vartanian, review,
"Mala Iqbal: Misty," The Brooklyn Rail, NY
Collections
Altoids® Curiously Strong Collection, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Queens Museum of Art, NY
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio