CONTACT
Malina Busch – PDF version of CV
SOLO* & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Hybrid, Raw Labs, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK*
2019 Shifting Tension, NN Contemporary Art Project Space, Northampton, UK*
2015 Hitch & Tether, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK*
2014 Indelible Shadows, South Square Gallery, Bradford, UK*
A Certain Slant of Light, thewindshow, Camden People’s Theatre, London, UK*
We Are Not Friends: Stuart Bannister and Malina Busch, Platform One Gallery, London, UK
COMMISSIONS
2016 Bright Veils, Painting Commission, Fintel Library, Roanoke College, Salem, VA, US
2015 20 Prints for 20 Years, Print Commission, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK
2010 Three Moments, Painting Installation for Queen Square, Bloomsbury Festival, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Nomenclature of Colours III, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2024 Works on Paper/Paper works, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2023 Colour Three Ways, exhibition with Caroline de Lannoy and Kate Hopkins, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
Bring Your Light, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
2022 Mixed Media, SITE: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
2021 Those Spaces Between Us, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA, US
Colour / Collage / Poetry, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2020 Emotive Objects, Digital Grace, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, US
2019 The Nomenclature of Colours, Slade Research Centre, UCL, London, UK
2018 Interlude: Unfinished Works, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA, US
2017 Introductions, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
What’s the Matter, co-curated with Rose Davey and Donal Moloney, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2016 Sixty, Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, UK
FABRIC, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, UK
2015 Creekside Open, selected by Richard Deacon RA, A.P.T. Gallery, London, UK
Structure-Texture-Future, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
The Imaginary Museum, Library Interventions, Leeds College of Art, Leeds, UK
Zeitgeist Open, selected by Domo Baal, Bond House Gallery, London, UK
2014 Thirst, Beldam Gallery, Brunel University, London, UK
FABRIC, curated by Day + Gluckman, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, UK
2013 ECO, selected by Day + Gluckman and Kevin Hunt, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, UK
Open Drawing, selected by Stephen Farthing RA, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, UK
Jerwood Drawing Prize, selected by Lisa Milroy RA, UK exhibition tour: Jerwood Gallery Hastings; mac Birmingham; Arts University Bournemouth
2012 Jerwood Drawing Prize, selected by Lisa Milroy RA, Jerwood Space, London, UK
Bow Arts Open, selected by Bob and Roberta Smith RA, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
2011 ING Discerning Eye, Invited artist of Ossian Ward, The Mall Galleries, London, UK
2010 Istanbul was Constantinople, Hush Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Re-Collection, Kardo-Sessoeff Collection, Portsea Place, London, UK
2009 Exhibitionism: The Art of Display, Academy Hang, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
EDUCATION
2011 MFA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK
2004 BFA Painting & Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
2003 BA Art with High Honours, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
2002 Study Abroad (Pont-Aven, France), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
AWARDS & GRANTS
2016 Joyce Mary Harding Textile Bursary, West Dean College, Chichester, UK
2014 – 2015 Honorary Research Fellow, Material Research Project within MFA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2014 Joan Day Painting Bursary, South Square Gallery, Bradford, UK
2013 Double Elephant National Bursary for printmaking, Exeter, UK
2013 Finalist, Qatar UK Artists’ Exchange, funded by the British Council, University College London, and Qatar Museum Authority
2011 Henry Tonks Prize for drawing, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2008 Artist’s Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, US
2002 & 2003 Dean’s List for excellence in Fine Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, US
2002 Joseph Palin Thorley Scholarship for Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, US
RESIDENCIES
2025 Raw Labs, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK
2019 NN Contemporary Art Project Space, Northampton, UK
2014 & 2015 Summer Residency, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2014 Platform One Gallery (Invited Artist), London, UK
2008 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, US
COLLECTIONS
President’s Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, US
Print Collection, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, US
Fintel Library, Roanoke College, Salem, VA, US
Artist Book Library, Leeds College of Art, Leeds, UK
Private Collections in the UK, US, and France
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
Colour & Poetry: A Symposium, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK, annually 2019 – 2025
“Themes of emptiness between people and places”, Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, 14 May 2021
The Imaginary Museum: Art Library as Archive, collated by Louise Atkinson, Leeds College of Art, Artist Book Library, 2015
New American Paintings, Juror: René Morales, South Issue #112, June/July 2014