Muna Malik is a multidisciplinary artist born in Sanaa, Yemen and based in Los Angeles. Working across painting, sculpture, public art, and film, her practice moves between the intimate and the monumental, interrogating the forces that shape collective memory, gendered experience, and the politics of belonging. Drawing on the visual languages of history, popular culture, and social justice, Malik builds work that holds contradiction: between visibility and erasure, between inherited identity and self-determination.
Her public and institutional work has reached audiences far beyond the gallery. As a participating artist in the For Freedoms 50 State Initiative and 2020 Awakening, she deployed billboard art as civic intervention, placing urgent questions about freedom and community directly into the American landscape. Her large-scale interactive sculpture, first unveiled in Battery Park City, New York, was subsequently acquired by the Parrish Art Museum in Watermill, NY.
Her exhibitions span major institutions and international venues, including Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York), Suzanne Vielmetter Gallery (Los Angeles), Tonya Bonakdar Gallery (Los Angeles), PM/AM Gallery (London), Kavi Gupta (Chicago), MOCA Geffen, the Annenberg Space for Photography, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Artforum, Vogue, the LA Times, and iD Magazine. Malik holds an MFA from the University of Southern California (2022) and has completed residencies at Longmeadow (Berkshire), ArcAthens (Greece), Campo Garzón (Uruguay), and FountainHead (Miami). She is a recipient of the McComber Grant (USC), the LMCC Art Fellowship, and multiple Vibrant Cities and Quiet Art Grants.