Elizabeth Malaska

Elizabeth Malaska (b. 1978, Portland, OR) earned her BFA from California College of the Arts and her MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art. She is the recipient of multiple honors, most recently the 2022 Betty Bowen Award from the Seattle Art Museum. Malaska is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of a Painters and Sculptor’s Grant from The Joan Mitchell Foundation as well as a Hallie Ford Fellowship from the Ford Family Foundation. Malaska’s work is in the permanent collections of The Portland Art Museum, The Seattle Art Museum, The Schneider Museum of Art, and the Hallie Ford Museum. Her work has been featured in Ms.Magazine, Art in America, ArtForum, ArtMaze, and New American Paintings among others. She lives and works in Portland, OR and is represented by Wilding Cran Gallery (LA).