ABOUT I IMAGES

Spandita Malik


B. 1995 Chandigarh, India 

birthplace


2019
MFA Photography, Parsons School Of Design, The New School, New York, NY

2017
B.Des Fashion Design, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, India

2016
Design & Fashion Management, International Semester Study, ENSAIT, Lille, France 

EDUCATION



2024
“Meshes of Resistance”, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC

2023
“Jāḷī : Meshes of Resistance”, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City MO
“Vadhu: The Embroidered Bride”, Karl and Helen Burger Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ 

2022
“Nā́rī”, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR
 
2021
“Vadhu: The Embroidered Bride”, Baxter St. CCNY, New York, NY
“Spandita Malik: Threads of Identity”, Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ 

SOLO EXHIBITION


2025
“Collective Threads”, The Invisible Dog, New York, NY

2023
“Paris Photo: Robert Mann Gallery”, Paris Photo, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, France
“The New Contemporaries Vol III” Residency Art Gallery, Inglewood, CA
“PHOTOFAIRS: Robert Mann Gallery”, Photofairs, Javits Center, New York, NY
“Encontros da Imagem” International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Braga, Portugal
“New Discoveries in Contemporary Photography”, Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK 

2022
“In the Different Light”, Rockefeller Capital, New York, NY
“Labor & Materials”, 21c Museum Hotels, Kansas City, MO
“say the dream was real and the wall imaginary”, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY
“Like Wildflowers”, NY Culture Club, New York, NY
 
2021
“BeautifulWorld(s): KCAI Biennial”, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
“Photo London: indigo+madder”, Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK
“Zwischenzeit”, KUNSTWERK Collection Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany
“In Between Yesterday Today and Tomorrow”, Wallwork
“Shifting Sands”, Chashama, New York, NY
“Diasporic Rhizome”, South Asia Institute (Virtual)
“What We Become When We Are Unbound.”, Project for Empty Spaces, Newark, NJ
 
2020
“\ ˈtəch \*”, Marisa Newman Projects, New York, NY
“Projections”, Photo Vogue Festival, photovoguefestival.vogue.it
“Vantage Point Sharjah 8”, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
“Radical Imagination”, Sakhi for South Asian Women, New York, NY
“In/Between: Transfigure," Ford Foundation Live Gallery, New York Live Arts, New York, NY

2019
“Being Bare”, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, NY
“Art 52nd Street”, The 6th Annual International Young Artist Exhibition, Gallery MC, New York, NY
“Omens and Predictions Exhibition”, Lenscratch.com  

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2024-25
LMCC Workspace Residency, New York, NY

2024
Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program, Syracuse, NY

2022-23
Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Residency Program, Kansas City, MO 

2021
The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
The Silver Arts Projects Residency, NY (Remote)
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2020
Feminist Incubator Residency, Project for Empty Spaces, Newark, NJ
Baxter St Workspace Residency, New York, NY

2019
The Spruce Art Residency, Indiana, PA

2018
Studio Vortex Artist Residency by Antoine d'Agata, Arles, France

SELECT RESIDENCIES


2024
Google’s Creator Labs Photo Fund
Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Summer Visual Arts Grant
Semifinalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2025, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution 

2023
Mast Foundation for Photography Grant (Nominated)
Women Photograph Project Grant
Discovery Awards (Finalist)
Charlotte Street Visual Art Award (Finalist)

2022
LensCulture Critics' Choice Award
The Hopper Prize (Finalist)
Inge Morath Award (Finalist)
The 30: New and Emerging Photographers Award

2021
AICAD Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship
Aperture Portfolio Prize (Finalist)
En Foco Photography Fellowship
New York Times Portfolio Review
The Foam Paul Huf Award 2021 (Nominated)

2020
PHmuseum 2020 Women Photographers Grant (Honorable Mention)
Firecracker Photographic Grant
South Asian Arts Resiliency Fund Grant
Foundation for Contemporary Arts FCA Emergency Grants
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program

2019
Parsons Photography Programmatic Scholarship Award

2018
Parsons Graduate Travel Award Recipient, The New School University

2017
Dean’s Merit Scholarship, The New School University 

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS