Malayka Gormally CV
Born: Berkeley, California Resides: Seattle, WA
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 1994
Multimedia Monotype Printmaking, 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
One and Two-Person Exhibitions
2021 Present / Tense, University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, IA
2020 Celebration of Community, Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, WA
2019 Present / Tense, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
2017 Present / Tense, Spaceworks Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2016 People and Places, curator Barbara Shaiman, Alexis Hotel, Seattle, WA
2003 Introducing Malayka Gormally, Roby King Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA
1995 Malayka Gormally, Dancing Goats Café, Olympia, WA
Fabric and Paint, Flying Moon Mercantile, Seattle, WA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Like Mother, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
2023 Like Mother, Green River College, Auburn, WA
2022 Migration, Civic Museum of Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, Italy
Like Mother, White River Valley Museum, Auburn, WA
2022 Members’ Show, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Like Mother, ERA Living University House Wallingford, Seattle, WA
2021 Like Mother, Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon Island, WA
Beloveds: Artist Couples, ERA Living Lakeshore, Seattle, WA
2019 Contemporary Drawing in the Pacific Northwest, Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art, Cheney, WA
Like Mother, North Seattle Community College Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Art of Tarot III, Ghost Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 Pulchra Scientia: The Aesthetics of Discovery, Perlman Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Tenacious, Suzanne Zahr Gallery, Mercer Island, WA
Creativity Persists, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Like Mother, Tacoma Art Museum’s TAM Local: Community Art Space, Tacoma, WA
2017 @Vis Arts at Bumbershoot, International Fountain Pavilion, Seattle, WA
10x10x10xTieton 8th Annual International Small Works Exhibition, Tieton, WA
Inscape Open Studios, INSCAPE Arts, Seattle, WA
Make America Create Again, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Medicine Ball, Erickson Theater Off Broadway, 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, curator Deborah Paine, Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, Seattle, WA
The CVG Show 2016, juror Lelani Lewis, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA
Artist Trust Benefit Art Auction, Artist Trust, Seattle, 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
2006 Local Sightings, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA; screening two art films
2005 Crime Scene, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 Just A Taste, Monarch Contemporary Art Gallery, Yelm, WA
2002 New Works, Roby-King Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA
Now Opening, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, WA
2000 Art in Port Townsend, curator Deborah Paine, Merit Award, Port Townsend, WA
Meet the Creator, Art Detour, Seattle, WA
1999 Art Works, curator MaryAnn Peters, Noodle Works Studio, Seattle, WA
Valentine Erotica, Allison Beeman Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
Pratt Fine Art Center Exhibit, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1998 New Works by New Artists, Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
Canterbury Fair Juried Art Exhibition, City of Kent, WA
1997 Arts Olympia Exhibition, Washington Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA
1996 Arts Olympia Exhibition, Washington Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA
The Divine Proportion, Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA.
1994 Regional Artists, Thurston Regional Planning Council, Olympia, WA
Public Art Projects
2022 Art Interruptions, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, Seattle, WA
2021 Flow 2021: Art Along the Ship Canal, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, Seattle, WA
2020=2022 STart: Sound Transit Public Art Program, Seattle, WA
Bibliography
2022 Rita Cipalla, Seattle and Perugia Artists Open a Conversation on Tolerance and Respect, L’Italo Americano, December 5, 2022
Jas Keimig, Tacoma Art Museum Workers are Unionizing, the Metaverse Is Basically Empty, Watch Out for Orcas, The Slog (The Stranger Blog), Seattle, Oct 18, 2022
Meghan Walker, New public art goes up along the Ship Canal, My Ballard, Seattle, WA, October 17, 2022
Erika Lindsay, Art Interruptions 2022 explores history, connection, and portraiture along Delridge-Highland Park Neighborhood Greenway, Art Beat Blog, October 4, 2022
Simona Panzolini, Perugia: at Palazzo della Penna there is 'Migration' , Umbria ON, Perugia, Italy, September 4, 2022
Migration, at Palazzo della Penna the exhibition celebrating the twinning between Perugia and Seattle, Umbria 24, Perugia, Italy, September 2, 2022
Editorial Board, At Palazzo della Penna the exhibition "Migration", to celebrate the long Perugia / Seattle twinning with art, Perugia Today, Perugia, Italy, September 2, 2022
Migration: from 3 September to 9 October the exhibition at Palazzo della Penna, Perugia Comunica, Perugia, Italy, August 28, 2022
Umbria News Web editorial staff, Migration: the exhibition at Palazzo Penna from 3 September to 9 October, Umbria Notizie Web, September 2, 2022
April, Jingco, Public Art Blooms across Seattle this summer, Art Beat Blog, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, July 15, 2022
WEST SEATTLE ART: Here’s who will create ‘art interruptions’ along greenway, West Seattle Blog, May 8, 2022
Ottis Bolisay, Artists Selected for Art Interruptions 2022 along Delridge-Highland Park Neighborhood Greenway, Art Beat Blog,
Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, May 3 2022
2021 June Sekiguchi, “Beloveds: Artist Couples,” exhibition essay, Seattle, WA
City of Bellevue Arts & Culture Program 2021: Portable Art Program, Bellevue, WA
Bellevue Arts Commission packet, Bellevue, WA February 2, 2021
Press Release, UNI Gallery of Art to present ‘Present / Tense: Sculpture, Paintings and
Drawings by Tom & Malayka Gormally,’ August 23, 2021
Annabelle Goavec, “An Ode to Nature: SEA North Satellite Artwork,” Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA, May 25, 2021
2020 Kate Hudson, “Investment in Art Benefits Local Community,” Port of Seattle, June 8, 2020
2019 Robert C. Morgan, “The Visionary Art of Tom and Malayka Gormally,” catalog essay for
Present / Tense, a two-person exhibition, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, 2019
Kelby Wingert, “Present/Tense”, The Messenger, Fort Dodge, IA, 2019
2018 The Stranger Things to Do Staff, “Tenacious, Suzanne Zahr Gallery”, SLOG (The Stranger Blog), August 1, 2018
2017 Megan Gallagher, “Present/Tense by Malayka and Tom Gormally”, Artist Trust News / Blog, December 18, 2017
The Stranger Things To Do Staff, “The Best Things to Do in Seattle This Winter”, SLOG (The Stranger Blog), December 6, 2017
Emily Pothast, Julia Raban and Joule Zelman, “The Best Art Shows in Seattle: Winter 2017/2018; Seattle Art and Performance Quarterly magazine, December 6, 2017
“Present/Tense by Malayka and Tom Gormally,” Artist Trust News & Stories, December 18, 2017
Lisa Edge, “Past and Present Tension”, cover article, Real Change, November 22-28, 2017
“New Gallery Openings in Town, Tacoma Weekly, November 22, 2017
Alec Clayton, “‘Present/Tense’, Sculpture, Drawings and Paintings by Malayka and Tom Gormally”, NorthwestMilitary.com and the Olympia Volcano, November 22, 2017
Gabriel Brown, “Present / Tense: Current Paintings and Drawings by Malayka Gormally & Tom Gormally, Spaceworks Tacoma blog, November 7, 2017
“July Unicorn of the Month: Malayka Gormally”, Opening A Unicorn Shop blog, Jeff Musser, http://jeffmusser.blogspot.com
“Visual Artist Malayka Gormally Talks About Inspiration”, The Frye Museum, & Medicine Ball: Playwrights V. Poets”, SeattleTheatreWorks.org/blog, Seattle, WA
“Malayka Gormally”, Ann Kullberg, Color Magazine, Federal Way, WA
“Like Mother”, The Stranger.com, Seattle, WA
2016 “Exhibit at the Alexis Hotel,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Arts & Culture Blog
“August Rise Art Roundup,” Rise Art News, RiseArt.com, London, UK
“35 Live: 2016 CoCA Members Show Catalog,” CoCA, Seattle, WA
2015 “Studio Visit Magazine: Volume 30,” Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
2006 “Crime Scene at Soil Art Gallery,” The Vroom Journal, Seattle, WA
“Malayka Gormally discusses portrait commissions...Artist Tool Kit Lecture Series at Seattle Academy of Fine Art,”
The Seattle Weekly, April 19
2002 “December Shows,” Debbie Lester, Art Access, Seattle, WA, December
1997 “Four Women Artists,” Anne Story, The Olympian, Olympia, WA, July 1
Grants and Awards
2021 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, UNI Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
2017 4Culture Art Projects Grant for $6,500; 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2006 Certificate of Merit, The Rochester International Film Festival, Rochester, NY
2000 Merit Award, Art Port Townsend, Port Townsend, WA; Curator: Deborah Paine
1997 Purchase Award, Canterbury Fair juried exhibition, City of Kent, WA
Portrait Painting Commissions
1999 - 2021: Portrait paintings included in over one hundred private collections throughout the US and Europe, including the President of the Board of Trustees of the Seattle Art Museum and board members for the Henry Art Gallery.
Professional and Related Experience
2002- 2019: Donations each year to local charitable auctions that benefit young people. The total value of the donations (in the form of portrait painting gift certificates) is over $140,000.
2005 - Present: Curating for corporate properties as Proprietor of Gormally Art Services
2016 Lecture at Gage Academy, The Business of Portrait Painting Commissions, Seattle, WA
2007 - 2009: Co-executive producer, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, Seattle, WA Director: David Russo Premiere: Sundance Film Festival, Park City UT
2005 - 2007: Production assistant and actor, Zoo, Seattle, WA; Director: Robinson Devor. Premiere: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France, 2007
Public Collections
UNI Permanent Art Collection, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
City of Bellevue Arts & Culture Program, Portable Art Collection, Bellevue, WA
Port of Seattle, SeaTac Airport Nursing Suite, Seattle, WA
City of Seattle Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA; purchases in 2016 and 2020.
Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Bloomington, IN
Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, WA
Safeco Insurance Corporation, Seattle, WA
City of Kent, WA
Selected Private Collections
The following is a partial list of individuals who have commissioned portraits from Malayka, including the client’s current and former positions.
Chief Financial Officer, Microsoft; President and CEO of Liberty Media
President of the Board of Trustees, Seattle Art Museum
President of the Board of Trustees for the Henry Art Gallery
Music Director of the New York "Mostly Mozart" festival
Owner of the Seahawks NFL team franchise
Artistic Director of the Seattle International Film Festival
Founder and CEO of Shen, Milsom & Wilke, NY, NY
Board member, Gage Academy; President of the Board, Bastyr University
Seattle Real Estate Developer
Owner of the Sorrento Hotel, Seattle, WA
Association for Educational Communication & Technology, Bloomington, IN
Founder of four publicly traded biotech companies, New York, NY
Owner of Sonia Rykiel Apparel, New York, NY