Saberah Malik
hmsaberah@gmail.com • www.saberahmalik.com
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Stories from My Story. AS220 Project Space, Providence, RI.
2018 Measurement of a Dream. Community College of Rhode Island, Lincoln RI.
2017 Thousandth Hour of the Next Journey. St. George’s School, Middletown, RI.
2016 Color of Life. Slater Mill, Pawtucket, RI.
2010 Please Do Not Touch. Above Providence Optical Gallery, Providence, RI.
2009 Un-Glassed. Mathewson Street United Methodist Church Chapel Gallery, Providence, RI.
2006 Whispering Waters Silent Stones. Space at Alice, Providence, RI.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Temporal Shift. Overlap Gallery, Newport, RI.
2023 Tensions: New Directions in Fiber art. Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI.
2023 Edward Mitchell Bannister National Exhibition: Celebrating BIPOC Artists. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
2023 Safekeeping. 108 Contemporary Gallery, Tulsa, OK.
2023 Connections. Ceres Gallery, TSGNY Show. New York, NY.
2022 X International Biennial “25 YEARS WTA”. Coral Gables, Florida
2022 Korea Fiber Arts Forum. Suwon Museum of Art, Art Space Gwanggyo, Suwon, Korea. LVA, KMAC, Asia Institute-Crane House, 21c Hotel & Museum, and the University of Louisville.
2022 Danforth Annual Juried Exhibition. Framingham, MA.
2022 Below the Surface/Synergy II. URI Providence Feinstein Campus Gallery, Providence, RI.
2022 Newport Biennial. Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI.
2022 14th Annual Pawtucket Foundation Prize Exhibition. Pawtucket, RI.
2021 Luminous. Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA.
2021 Oneness and Togetherness. WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY. Curator, Yuko Nii.
2020 Call and Response. Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI.
2020 Mandatory Color. Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
2020 Small Expressions. University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN. Travelling to Robert Hillestead Textile Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NA; Brinton Museum, Big Horn, WY.
2020 Fiber 2020. Silvermine Art Guild, New Canaan, CT.
2020 Fantastic Fibers 2020. Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KT.
2020 Threaded: Contemporary Fiber in New England. Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA.
2020 Gold Standard of Textile and Fiber Art. Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY.
2020 A Nerve is not a Nerve but a Bundle of Fibers. Wheaton College, Norton, MA.
2020 Excellence in Fibers V. Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI.
2019 Fiber Art Network. Exhibition in print.
2019 Beyond the Surface. Juried Members Exhibit at SDA 2019 Biennial Conference, St. Louis, MO.
2019 Twisting Fibers: An Art for All Reasons. Art League Rhode Island Open Juried Show, Pawtucket, RI.
2019 12th Annual Pawtucket Foundation Show. Pawtucket, RI.
2019 More Than My Religion. Cary Library, Lexington, MA; State House, Boston, MA.
2019 Newport Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition. Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI.
2018 More Than My Religion. Atrium Gallery, Providence, RI.
2018 On the Other Side. Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI.
2018 Red + One. Korea Bojagi Forum, Seoul, South Korea.
2018 Con/Textile/Ized. Jamestown Arts Center, Jamestown, RI.
2017 Sixth Islamic Art Revival Series. Irving Arts Center, TX.
2017 Festival of Quilts. Quilt Experiment division, Birmingham, UK.
2017 Small Works, SDA at 40. DPP Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR.
2017 RESIST. Van Vessem Gallery, Tiverton, RI.
2017 Making Your Mark. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
2017 Boats, Surf, and Beaches. The Vets Gallery, Providence, RI.
2017 We Are Rhode Island. Feinstein Campus, URI Providence, RI.
2017 Contemporary Art: A Global Perspective. Warwick Center for the Arts, Warwick, RI.
2017 IARS Women’s Invitational Exhibition 2017. Eisemann Center, Richardson, TX.
2016 Conversations/Conversazion. ACCM Art Residency, Castello DeViti DeMarco, Casamassella (LE), Italy.
2016 Featured RI Artists for Green Space at T. F. Green Airport, RI.
2016 Korea Bojagi Forum, 2016. Suwon I Park Museum of Art, Chojun Textile and Quilt Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea.
2016 Danforth Art Annual: 2016 Juried Exhibition. Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA.
2016 Transgressing Traditions. Contemporary Textiles from the Surface Design Association. Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY.
2016 Drawing Lines Across Mediums. Site: Brooklyn, New York, NY.
2016 Future Traditions: Furniture and Textiles. Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI.
2016 Fiber: Focus 2016. Kent State University, Kent, OH.
2015 Fourth Islamic Art Revival Series. LuminArte Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2015 Innovations in Fiber V. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA.
2015 Three Rivers Arts Festival. Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA.
2015 Community of Artists. Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA.
2015 Transparencies. Vets Gallery, Providence, RI.
2015 NetWorks 2008–2014 Retrospective. Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA.
2015 Newport Open 2015. Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI.
2015 Square. Narthex Gallery of St. Peter’s Church, New York, NY.
2014 NetWorks 2013–2014 Series. Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI.
2014 Perspectives/Translations/Refractions. Chazan Gallery at Wheeler, Providence, RI.
2014 Third Islamic Art Revival Series. LuminArte Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2014 A Lively Experiment. RI Convention Center, Providence, RI.
2014 Compass Rose Leader’s Exhibit. RI Convention Center, Providence, RI.
2014 HGA Small Expressions. Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA.
2014 Community of Artists. Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA.
2014 Open Juried All-Media Exhibition. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
2014 Fiber in the Present Tense. New Bedford, MA.
2013 Rhode Island Art Archives Project. Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI.
2013 Innovations in Fiber IV. Sebastopol Center For The Arts, Sebastopol, CA.
2013 Threads. Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ.
2013 ABZ Etcetra. Sebastopol Center For The Arts, Sebastopol, CA.
2013 Food for Thought. Some Things Looming, Reading, PA.
2013 New England Collective VI. Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
2013 Fabrication of Imagination. ALL (Art League, Lowell), Lowell, MA.
2013 Handweavers Guild of America: Small Expressions 2013. Fine Lines Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, IL.
2013 Off the Wall. Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.
2013 All Media Open Juried Exhibition. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
2013 3-D Small Works Salon. Maud Morgan Arts Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2013 New Work New Year. Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI.
2012 26th Annual Open. Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI.
2012 New England Collective III. Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
2012 Textile Art Mixed Exhibition, Green Textiles Conceptual Textile Art Mixed Exhibition. Moda Tekstil Bienali, Antalya, Turkey.
2012 Contextile 2012. Contemporary Textile Art Triennial, Guimaraes, Portugal.
2012 Pawtucket Foundation Show. Pawtucket, RI.
2012 Off the Wall. Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.
2012 Art in Fiber. Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA.
2012 Craft National. Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS.
2012 Fiber Futures. Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA.
2012 Members’ Juried Annual. Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI.
2011 New Visions: 9 x 9 x 3. 1155 Avenue of the Americas Lobby Gallery, New York, NY.
2011 Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber. Courtyard Gallery, World Financial Center, New York, NY.
2011 Stitched: Nature Re-constructed. Stonehill College, Easton, MA.
2011 Form and Fantasy. Mystic Arts Center, Mystic, CT.
2011 Elements. Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI.
2011 13th Annual Fidelity Investments Exhibit. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
2011 Northeast Regional Juried Contemporary Fiber Exhibition. Rochester Contemporary Art Center, NY.
2010 24th Annual Open. Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI.
2010 A Community of Artists. Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.
2010 Fourth Annual Multicultural. Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI.
2010 Extreme Scale. Fidelity Investments Exhibition, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
2010 Newport Open. Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI.
2010 Open Painting Exhibition. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
2009 Green Works. Fidelity Investments Exhibition, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
2009 Resounding Resonance. Providence Art Windows Installation, Providence, RI.
2008 Fidelity Investments All Media Exhibition. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
2008 Bend, Fold, Manipulate: 20 Artists Stitch for Peace. ACA Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2007 Now for Something Completely Different. It Is Not A Deli Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2007 Red, Black and White. Mystic Arts Center, Mystic, CT.
2007 Three View Points. Krause Gallery, Providence, RI.
Workshops/Teaching
2020 Visiting Artist. Wheaton College, Norton, MA.
2019 - 15 Introduction to Shibori. Stonehill College, Easton, MA.
2018 - 14 Introduction to Shibori. Textile Department, Punjab University College of Art and Design, Lahore, Pakistan.
2017 Transforming Textiles. Essex County Needlecraft Guild, Topsfield, MA.
2017 Visiting Artist. Creative Arts at Haywood Community College, Clyde, NC.
2017 Transforming Textiles. Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Bakersville, NC.
2016 Shibori. Art League Rhode Island in collaboration with Slater Mill Historic Site, Pawtucket, RI.
2016 Innovations in Fiber, Art League Rhode Island in collaboration with Slater Mill, Pawtucket, RI.
2014 Transforming Textiles. HGA Convergence Conference, Providence, RI.
2014 Shapes of Cloth. HGA Convergence Conference, Providence, RI.
Grants
2022 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, General Operating Support for Artists, three-year grant.
2020 Finalist, MacColl Johnson Fellowship in Visual Arts, Rhode Island Foundation.
2016 Conversations in Contemporaneity. Carlo Cego Partial Fellowship grant, 2016 Arts Residency, Casamassella, Lecce, Italy.
2012 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Professional Artist Development (PAD) Grant.
Awards/Honors
2019 Newport Art Museum Annual Member’s Juried Exhibition, Newport, RI.
2014 HGA: A Lively Experiment. RI Convention Center, Providence, RI.
2014 Open Juried All-Media Exhibition. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
2014 Fiber in the Present Tense. New Bedford, MA. SDA Award of Excellence.
2013 Handweavers Guild of America's Small Expressions. Fine Lines Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, IL.
2013 All Media Open Juried Exhibition. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
2012 26th Annual Open. Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI.
2012 Pawtucket Foundation Show. Pawtucket, RI.
2012 Off the Wall. Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.
2011 Form and Fantasy. Mystic Arts Center, Mystic, CT.
2011 Elements. Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI.
2010 24th Annual Open. Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI.
2010 Fourth Annual Multicultural. Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI.
2010 Extreme Scale. Fidelity Investments Exhibition, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
2007 Red, Black and White. Mystic Arts Center, Mystic, CT.
Artist Talks
2015 Transparencies. Vets Gallery, Providence, RI.
2014 Saberah Malik. Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI.
2013 Preview: Rhode Island Art Archive Project. Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
2012 Women’s History Month. Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI.
2011 Stitched: Nature Re-constructed. Stonehill College, Easton, MA.
Artist Residency
2022 Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY.
2016 Associazione Cultural Cività’ del Mediterraneo. September 2016 Arts Residency, Casamassella, Lecce, Italy.
Publications: Catalogs
2019 Kim Svoboda, The Language of Making: Visual Voices from the Textile Study Group of New York, p. 110.
2017 Korea Bojagi Forum; Red. Suwon I Park Museum; Chojun Textile and Quilt Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea.
2017 Sixth Islamic Art Revival Series. Irvington Arts Center, Irvington, TX.
2016 Fiber: Focus. Kent State University Museum, Stager and Blum Gallery, Kent, OH.
2015 Fourth Islamic Art Revival Series. LuminArte Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2015 Materialities. Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, TN.
2015 Square. Textile Study Group of New York. Narthex Gallery of St. Peter’s Church, New York, NY.
2014 Third Islamic Art Revival Series. LuminArte Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2014 NetWorks 2013–2014. Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI.
2013 Green Textile, Slow Fashion. International Antalya Fashion & Textile Design Biennial, Antalya, Turkey.
2012 Contextile: Contemporary Textile Art Triennial 2012. Guimaraes, Portugal.
2012 Digital Catalog, Off the Wall. Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.
2012 Art in Fiber. Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA.
2011 Digital Catalog, Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber. Textile Study Group of New York.
2011 New Visions: 9 x 9 x 3. Textile Study Group of New York.
2011 Stitched: Nature Constructed. Cushing-Martin Gallery, Stonehill College, Easton, MA.
Publications: Books
2018 Andra Stanton, Dimensional Cloth: Sculpture by Contemporary Textile Artists, pp. 210–212. Schiffer Publishing.
2015 Kristi O’Meara, Pattern Base, pp. 203, 260. Thames and Hudson.
2013 Marjorie Husain, Nadeem Alam, Barbara Schmitz, Rahat Naveed Masud, and Ajmal Hussain, A Journey of Resilience and Success, 1940–2013: College of Art and Design, University of the Punjab, Lahore, pp. 105–106. Lahore, Pakistan: College of Art and Design, University of the Punjab.
Publications: Journals/News Media
2018 Suzzane Volmer, “Room to Breathe: Malik in Providence.” Artscope, Sep/Oct 2018, pp. 27–28.
2018 Alexander Castro, “Five Rhode Island Artists to Collect Right Now.” Rhode Island Monthly, March.
2017 Alexander Castro, “Passion and Polyester.” Jamestown Mercury, April 5–11, p. 12.
2017 Bill Van Siclen, “New art exhibit makes good use of Vets gallery.” Providence Journal, April 23.
2014 “A lively experiment: All media.” Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, Vol. XLVI No. 1, pp. 36–37.
2014 “HGA’s Small Expressions 2013.” Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, Vol. XLV No. 4, p. 30.
2014 “Exposure.” Surface Design, Spring 2014, p. 51.
2014 Rachel Shipps, “The RI Art Archive Project Exhibition.” Art New England, January/February 2014.
2013 “HGA’s Small Expressions 2013.” Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, Vol. XLIV No. 4, p. 27.
2012 Amanda Disanto, “Art League show brings together diverse body of work (Art League of Rhode Island 12th Annual Exhibition Review).” Jamestown Mercury, September 5–11, pp. 10–11.
2012 Meredith Cutler, “Art in Fiber, Marblehead Arts Association.” Artscope, May/June 2012, p. 29.
2010 Mary M. Tinti. “Unglassed…” Dress for Sports (Blog), March 1. http://dressforsports.blogspot.com/2010/03/un-glassed.html
2010 Joe Kernan, “Area Artists Mold Their Own World.” Warwick Beacon, Thursday, February 11, Lifestyle p. 23.
2010 Bill Van Siclen, “Green Works’ exhibit brings trash to a new level.” Thursday, March 12, p. D6.
2007 Dean Fachon, “Southern-Asian and Middle-Eastern Exhibit at URI Providence Campus.” Warwick Beacon, Thursday, March 15, p. 8.
2007 Bill Van Siclen, “Eastern art at URI-Providence.” Providence Journal, Thursday, March 15, p. E9.
2007 Bill Van Siclen, Art scene, Providence Journal, April 6–9, 2006, Live this weekend p. 18.
Media
2014 Joseph A. Chazan, M.D. (Executive Producer), Richard Goulis (Video Producer), “NetWorks 2014.” Rhode Island PBS. http://vimeo.com/channels/networks2014/111266052
2013 Stephen Metcalf, Executive Producer, Holly Gaboriault, Producer and Director, “Film:1.” RI Art Archive Project, Art League of Rhode Island.
Collections
Permanent Collection, Akdeniz University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Fashion and Textile Department, Antalya, Turkey.
Fidelity Investments Corporate Collection, Boston, MA.
Permanent Collection, Wheaton College, Norton, MA.
Private Collections in Italy, USA, Pakistan.
Education
Surface Design. Community College Of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI.
Master of Industrial Design. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
MFA with Distinction, Graphic Design. Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan.
BFA with Honors, Graphic Design. Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan.
Links
https://www.instagram.com/hmsaberah/
https://www.surfacedesign.org/member-spotlight-saberah-malik/
https://networksrhodeisland.org/saberah-malik/
http://tsgnyblog.org/index.php/2012/03/saberah-malik
https://newportartmuseum.org/the-newport-biennial-2022-audio-guide-malik/