Education

School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA),
Boston, MA & Tufts University, Medford, MA
M.F.A. May 1997

Smith College, Northampton, MA
B.A. May 1994, cum laude
High Honors in Studio Art Major
Minor in Women's Studies


Solo Exhibitions

2006 Plane Space, New York, NY

2005 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

2004 Blink Gallery, Newport, RI

2003 Plane Space, New York, NY

2002 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston, MA


Selected Group Exhibitions

2007   Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, ME

2006   Approaches to Narrative, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
            Maine: The Way Life Is, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

2005   Items May Have Shifted, Plane Space Gallery, New York, NY
            Griffin Museum of Photography Exhibition, Winchester, MA

2004   PRC Members' Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA

2003   Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
            Faculty 2003, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
            In Summation, Plane Space Gallery, New York, NY
            Photographers' 03, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
            Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, ME

2002   Safe Haven: Picturing Domestic Space, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
            Bowdoin College Faculty Exhibition, Icon Gallery, Brunswick, ME

2001   Manifest 2001, The Copley Society , Boston, MA
            PRC Members' Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
            New England/New York/New Talent, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA

2000   New Work/New Ideas, Green Street Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
            Twice Born: Beauty, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA, September 2000
            Blue, Lowell Street Gallery, Cambridge Art Association

1999   New American Talent 14, Centerspace, Austin and various cities, Texas
            The Apartment Show, 760 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA

1998   3rd Biennial Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
            New Directions '98, Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY
            9th National Juried Exhibition, Viridian Gallery, New York, NY
            Urb, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 1998
            New Photography, Weems Center, Boston, MA, January 1998

1997   Women in Photography, Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA, June 1997

1996   First Expressions Gallery, Boston, MA
            Seats of Meaning, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA
            Selections from New England M.F.A. Programs, Boston University Art Gallery


Selected Screenings

A Few Repairs, a color 10 minute 16mm film screened:

Hi/Lo Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, November 1998
Thaw Film and Video Festival, Iowa City, Iowa, April 1998
New York Women's Film Festival, New York City, NY, April 1998
Ohio Independent Film Festival, Cleveland, OH, November 1997
Film and Video Annual, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, May 1, 1997


Chloe's Brother, a B & W 10 minute 16mm film screened:

Solid State Film Festival, Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline, MA, April 8, 1997
Film and Video Annual, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, May 2, 1996
Local Sightings, Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline, MA, December 7, 1995


Bibliography

Coggins, David. "Sarah Malakoff at Plane Space", Art in America (April 2007): 137.

Sholis, Brian. "Critics' Picks: Sarah Malakoff", Artforum (Nov. 28, 2006): http://www.artforum.com/archive/id=12125

"The Way Life Is?", Down East (Oct. 2006): 80-81.

McQuaid, Cate. "Peter Tollens: New Work and Sarah Malakoff: Interiors", The Boston Globe (June 24, 2005): C15.

"Decorator Horoscope", Nest Magazine (Volume 22: Fall 2003): 144-145.

Van Siclen, Bill. "Art Scene", The Providence Journal (Sept 8, 2003).

Talman, Stefan. "Faculty Exhibition", The Brown Daily Herald (Providence, RI; Sept, 2003).

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Baker, Kenneth. "Domestic Space: not all neat and tidy", San Francisco Chronicle (August 17, 2002)

Bierma, Paige. "The Familiar Yet Elusive Nature of Domestic Space", Digital City (August 2002)

Gaston, Diana. "Safe Haven", Camerawork (Fall/Winter 2002): 38.

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Silver, Joanne. "And Now Something Different: Beauty", Boston Herald (September 29, 2000)

Hoang, Cuong. "Beauty is in the Eye of a Curator", South End News (October 19, 2000)

Hill, Shawn. "Liking What We See", Bay Windows (October 19-25, 2000)

Schade, Christopher. "Photographers Top Class of New Talents", Austin American-Statesman(September 30, 1999): E8.

Cruz, Amada. New American Talent 14. (Austin: Texas Fine Arts Association, 1999): 7, 31-32.

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Selected Grants, Honors, and Awards

Artist Grant in Photography, Massachusetts Cultural Council, 2001

Jean & Kahlil Gibran Award for Manifest 2001, Copley Society, Boston, MA

Purchase grant for films "A Few Repairs" and "Chloe's Brother", The Video Slammer, Boston, June 1998

Grant from Electronic Imaging Exhibition for iris ink jet print, 1996

Chosen by Trevor Fairbrother, Barbara Krakow, and Mary Drach McInnes to represent the SMFA in the C.A.A. exhibition, "Selections from New England M.F.A. Programs", 1995

Recipient of Graduate Fellowship, Smith Alumnae Association, 1994

Awarded high honors for Thesis Project, "Insides", Smith College, 1994

Awarded Dana Grant for research project, "Tappan Project", Smith College Art Museum, 1993


Recent Teaching Positions

Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, Assistant Professor of Photography, 2005-present

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography, 2001-02 & 2004-05

Brown University, Providence, RI, Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography, 2002-04