Biography
Blake Malone
Born 1994, Sydney, N.S.W, Australia
Education
2024
Sydney College of the Arts, Master of Fine Arts – Painting
2016
Sydney College of the Arts, Honours (First Class) – Painting
2015
Sydney College of the Arts – Painting
2013
St George College of TAFE, Diploma – Visual Arts
2012
St George College of TAFE, Certificate IV – Visual Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Living in the Space Between, Rembrandt Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nowhere to Be, Amstel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2023
The Style Is Death, Master’s Graduate Show, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2022
Influx, Prop Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Don’t Think Twice, Verge Gallery, Manning, Sydney, Australia
Group Exhibtions
2025
Hugo Murray I Am a Teacup Retrospective, Prop Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Museum of Preserved Aesthetics: A Small Monument to Oil (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cracked Walls & Tinned Fish), IAI Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2024
Hidden Portrait, PILOTENKUECHE, Leipzig, Germany
2023
IAI Presents the New Creative Industries and Design School, IAI Institute, Sydney, Australia
Pienkow Art Award, Pienkow Gallery, Lipinki Chelm, Poland
Koszmary Dzieci / The Nightmares of the Ten, Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Poznan, Poland
2022
Making It Right, University of Sydney Art Week, Sydney, Australia
Plexus Part 2, Kudos Gallery / Comber Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Creative Award, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2020
Ta mig genom mörkret till dagens rast, Riki Music Recording Studio, Stockholm, Sweden
Bush Fire Fundraiser, Hilma – The Generator, Stockholm, Sweden
Hilma Open Night (Live Painting), Hilma – The Generator, Stockholm, Sweden
2019
Greasy Spoon Art Show, Stockholm, Sweden
International 8, Haihatus Exhibition, Finland
2018
Rolo-Dex Group Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Untitled, Traffic Jam Galleries, Neutral Bay, Sydney, Australia
MASS Italian Painting Show, Al Taglio, Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
Generation Z Charity Art Show, Maunsell Wickes, Paddington, Sydney, Australia
Space Gallery Show, Annandale, Sydney, Australia
2016
Sydney College of the Arts Undergraduate Exhibition – Honours
MASS at MOST, Brompton Street, Marrickville, Sydney, Australia
Put It on Wax, Ambush Gallery, Central Park Mall, Sydney, Australia, for Heaps Decent
2015
Sydney College of the Arts Undergraduate Exhibition – Honours
MASS Presents: 8 Paintings 1 Night, Holme Building, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Dedspace, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
Residences
2024
PILOTENKUECHE, Leipzig, Germany
2023
Pienkow Artist Residency, Lipinki Chelm, Poland
2019
Haihatus Artist Residency, Finland – 1 month
Hovinkartano Artist Residency, Finland
Awards
2022
Creative Award, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Collections
William Wilkins Memorial Art Collection, Gallery in the Bridge Street Office of the Department of Education, Sydney, Australia – Public Permanent Collection
Marek Maria Pieńkowski Foundation – Private Collection
Publications
2022
Russh Magazine, Australia Art March 2022
Author: Jasmine Pirovic
Published 4 March 2022
2012
Chitter Chat, Behind the Artist: Blake Malone
Author: Joseph Smith
Published 21 June 2012
2022
Blake Malone, Don’t Think Twice, Manning, Level 1
Verge Gallery
Online
Instagram: @blakemalonestudio