Malayka Gormally

Malayka Gormally works in the contemporary art field as a figurative painter, curator, and commission portrait artist. Her paintings are included in the City of Seattle Portable Works Collection and the Safeco Insurance Collection, are featured on the RiseArt (London) online platform and have exhibited in numerous exhibitions in the United States. One of her portrait paintings was shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition in London.

B.A. Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 1994

Multimedia Monotype, instructor Romson Bustillo, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA, 2016
Artist Trust Visual Artist EDGE Professional Development Program, 2015
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, undergraduate studies.1992
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, undergraduate studies,1980
University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, undergraduate studies, 1979

Two-Person Exhibitions
2017 Thick & Thin, Spaceworks Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2016 People and Places, Alexis Hotel, Seattle, WA

Select Group Exhibitions
2017
10x10x10xTieton 8th Annual International Small Works Exhibition, Tieton, WA
Inscape Open Studios, INSCAPE Arts, Seattle, WA
Medicine Ball, Erickson Theater, Seattle, WA
Make America Create Again, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Like Mother, curator Kelly Lyles, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
Like Mother, curator Kelly Lyles, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016
IN-SIGHT Portrait Exhibition, Hillman City Collaboratory, Seattle, WA
Like Mother, curator Kelly Lyles, Magnuson Park Gallery, Seattle, WA
35 LIVE: CoCA Members’ Show, curator Nichole Dement, CoCA at PS35, Seattle, WA
Seattle Simplified, Part II, Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, Seattle, WA
The CVG Show 2016, juror Leilani Lewis, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA
2015
Art Port Townsend, curator Kathleen Moles, Port Townsend, WA
Featured Artist, curator Kathryn Roberts, RiseArt, London, UK
2014
Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition, London