MALA IQBAL

Mala Iqbal was born in the Bronx in 1973 and grew up in a household where three cultures and four languages intersected. These monotypes were influenced by and compiled from her sketchbooks, which include hundreds of drawings of fellow New Yorkers glimpsed on bus, subway, ferry and city street. Iqbal has had solo exhibitions at Soloway Gallery in Brooklyn; 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. Her series of collaborative paintings, made with Angela Dufresne, was shown at SUNY Purchase in October 2021, and will be exhibited at LSU in Baton Rouge in Fall 2023. Her work has been exhibited in group shows throughout the United States as well as in Australia, China, Europe, and India. 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.