MALADO FRANCINE * BALDWIN-TEJEDA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2023 The Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles
2006 MFA (Painting)The New York Studio School
1997 BA (Comparative Literature) Swarthmore College
AWARDS
2023 Mercedes Matter Award for Painting
2022 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2005 Buckingham Prize for the Expression
of Music in Art
1993 The Eugene Lang Scholarship for
Community Service
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2022 Triangle Art Foundation, Governor’s Island, NY
A-Z West/High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA
2021 MeMeraki, Limassol, Cyprus
DNA Residency, Provincetown, MA
2019 Grrl Haus Cinema, Berlin, Germany
Pioche Projects, Biarritz, France
2016 Marble House, Dorset, VT
2007 Governor’s Island Residency, New York, NY
2006 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Triangle International Artists’ Workshop,
Brooklyn, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 All Eyes: Empathy Series
Triangle Arts Foundation, New York, NY
2019 Sacred Ornaments
Philosophical Research Society,
Los Angeles, CA
2018 Films and Adornment
Winslow Garage, Silver Lake, CA
2012 Timeless Placeless
Gawker Artists Headquarters, NY
Small Patterns Big Shifts
Vera List Gallery, Swarthmore, PA
Small Patterns Big Shifts
Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, Kean University, NJ
2011 Middle Feast
Open House Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Landscape / Abstraction
Keyhole Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Figures
Keyhole Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2000 The Underground Railroad
Dumbo Arts 1107, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Unravelings, Fellow of Contemporary Art (FOCA), Los Angeles, CA
The Dinner Party, Middle Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Third Way, Electra Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Out of the Ashes, Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Goddesses and Monsters, SUNY Potsdam Art Museum, Potsdam, NY
Bound & Infinity, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA
Of Flames and Shadows Gone Astray, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
SADECADE, SADE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023
59th Annual Small Works Show, Joseph A Cain Art Gallery, Del Mar College, TX
INCOGNITO, ICA-LA, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA
After the End, curated by Catherine Taft of LAXART for NADA.org
2022
Dream House, with Hexentexte, for Womanhouse, Anat Egbi Gallery, CA
My Body My Truth, with SEER Gallery and Cobra Flute Projects, Phoenix, AZ and Dog & Pony Art Space, Spokane, WA
2021
I’m Glad You Missed the Opening of Our Show, Best Friends Showroom, Falun, Sweden
Changing Light, Michael Warren Contemporary, Denver CO
TRUTH TO POWER, Soho Renaissance Factory, New York, NY
2019
Love &/or Fear, LA Center of Photography + LA Freewaves, Los Angeles, CA
Coast to Coast, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
and Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY
2018
No Man Spirits Our Dust, 5-50 Gallery, LIC Queens, NY
West Coast Connections, Hackett Mill Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
Modern Oracles, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Play, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Tally, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
2015
Thanks Tucker, PØST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Gallery Tally Poster Project, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014
NATION II At the Alamo, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery Tally, For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA
2013
PAPERAZZI, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery Tally, Margin Release Right, West LA College, CA
2012
Hennessey Youngman, Family Business, New York, NY
MIC: CHECK (occupy), Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Inside & Out: Jason Lujan & Malado Baldwin, Triangle Arts Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Post Paper, Gawker Artists HQ, NY
2010
Decameron, curated by David Cohen, New York Studio School, NY
Last Exit to Brooklyn, curated by Julie Torres, Brooklyn, NY
Je Vous Rappellera…,T.R.A.C.E.S., Paris, France
Pairs, Perimeter Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2009
Hypothetical Landscapes, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Open City, curated by Sean Scully, New York Studio School, NY
35/25 Invitational, Painting Center, New York, NY
2008
Party at Phong’s House, curated by Chris Martin, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Boson Exotic, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
2007
This Far and No Further, LIC Space, Queens, NY
View from Brooklyn, Vera List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA
2006
MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Studio School, NY
Sounds for a Large Space, LIC Space, Queens, NY
2004
Public Execution: Big Glass, Exit Art, New York, NY
FAIRS & BIENNIALS
2024 TRYST + NOMAD III, Torrance Art Museum, CA
2023 NOMAD II, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2021 NOMAD I, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
KMA Biennial, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
The Everywoman Biennial, Super Chief Gallery
New York, NY
2020 Maiden LA Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
2019 The Everywoman Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
The Everywoman Biennial, New York, NY
2018 Maiden LA Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
2017 FAIR PLAY, Miami, FL
2014 THE LAST BRUCENNIAL, New York, NY
2012 THE BRUCENNIAL II, New York, NY
2010 THE BRUCENNIAL, New York, NY
FILM SCREENINGS & FESTIVALS
NEON TEARS / 2021 / GIF Animation + NFT
2021 The Everywoman Biennial + Super Chief Gallery, NY
2021 The Everywoman Biennial, London, UK
CREATION SCENES / 1996+2020 / Super 8mm film
2026 Tulip International Film Festival,
Rotterdam, Netherlands (Honorable Mention)
2025 Your Way International Film Festival,
Valletta, Malta (Best Black & White Film)
2024 Seoul International Short Film Festival, South Korea
2024 Beyond the Screen Film Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 Munich New Wave Festival (Official selection)
2023 Budapest Film Festival (Honorable mention)
2023 Grrl Haus Cinema, Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
2023 New York Tri-State Film Festival (Official selection)
2022 HALO International Film Festival,
St Petersburg, Russia (Honorable mention)
2020 Maiden LA Biennial(Film premiere)
God_my_GODDESS / 1997+2017 / VHS film
2024 Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 LIGHT YEAR 67, Dumbo, Brooklyn
2020 Grrl Haus Cinema, Berlin, Germany
2019 Everywoman Biennial, New York, NY
2018 Winslow Garage, Los Angeles, CA
2018 KeyHole Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 The New York Studio School, NY
LUX/NOX / 2012 / Digital film
2022 Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Grrl Haus Cinema, Berlin, Germany
2018 Winslow Garage, Los Angeles, CA
2017 KeyHole Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 FAIR PLAY, Miami, FL
2016 The Situation Room, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Downtown Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Codex Dynamic, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn NY
THE COLD MAJESTY OF THE NUMB / 2010 / Digital film
2012 Codex Dynamic, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, KY
2011 Virginia Commonwealth University, VA
2011 Video Konstfestival, Magasinet, Falun, Sweden
DAY DITTY / 1997 / VHS film
2017 Miranda July’s Joanie4Jackie VHS feminist film compilation acquired by Bard College, NY and the Getty Research Institute, CA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 Rituals in Motion, Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 TEXTS&MESSAGES, Kamikaze show, PØST Gallery + MiM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 X-Marks the Spot: Women of the New York Studio School, New York, NY
2011 Where have You Been? Pop-Up Apartment Show, Soho, NY
2008 Spring Showcase, The LCU Foundation for Women, New York Academy of Art, NY
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES & PANELS
2025 The Dinner Party, The Middle Room Gallery, Atwater Village, CA
2021 MeMeraki Artist Talk, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
2020 Berlin Collectiv Artist Studio Series, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Bring Back What you can Find, for 7x7.LA, Torrance Art Museum, CA
The Spiritual in Art, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Where the Urgency Is, Triangle Arts Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2009 25 Painters under 35, with Mario Naves, The Painting Center, NY
SELECTED PRESS
“After Fires Tore Through Their Studios, Artists Find Resilience,” by Matt Stromberg, Hyperallergic, March 13, 2024
“Studio Visit with Malado Francine,” by L.A. Art Documents, December 2024
“Dealing With Change,” The Side Woo podcast, October 2024
“Meet Malado Francine,” Canvas Rebel Magazine, April 15, 2024
"TCK and the Information Highway" What's My Thesis podcast, Fall 2023
“Rising Stars,” Voyage LA, January 4, 2023
"Pseudo-species, Monsters, and Animism" Drawing with Animals, Substack, August 2022
“The Curative Power of Art,” by Tara Smith, Swarthmore Bulletin, Winter 2021
“Malado Francine Baldwin: Artist, Writer, Curator,” Shoutout LA, June 16, 2020
“Meet Malado Baldwin,” Voyage LA Magazine, Nov 26, 2018
“Malado Baldwin’s Sketchbooks,” by Peggy Roalf, Design Arts Daily, August 23, 2018
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“My Lotto by Malado” limited edition artist’s book with Allowing Many Forms press, 2026
“HYENA,” illustration for Hexentexte press, 2024
“Intuitive Art,” artwork for UPPERCASE Magazine, 2024
“V7: The Sacred,” artwork for The Los Angeles Press, Winter 2022-2023
“Dream House” artwork for Hexentexte in the Womanhouse exhibition at Anat Egbi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Feb 2022
“Curators Debate the Pros and Cons of All-Women’s Art Shows,” essay for Hyperallergic, September 20, 2018
“L’amour Encore,” photography book published on Blurb.com, 2018
“Grenoble Self-Portrait with African Masks, Modigliani,” cover for Biostories Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 1, Winter/ Spring 2017
“Bring Back What You Can Find," co-publication with Iver Arnegard, 7x7.LA.com, February 25, 2016
“Little Reminders,” cover for Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Issue 18, November 14, 2016
“August 1998,” poem for TXTOBJX.com , 2016
“Sacred Object Project,” essay and artwork for Our Prime Property.org, 2016
“Modern Oracles” artwork for catalogue by Melissa Staiger, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“The Journey” essay for Rachael Magazine, Fall 2013
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Getty Research Institute, Bard College, Kean University, The Philosophical Research Society, William Louis Dreyfus Foundation, Michael Levine collection, Ruth Bader Ginsburg collection
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