Education
M.F.A. Sculpture - Stanford University 1999
B.F.A. Sculpture - New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University 1993
B.A. English - University of Notre Dame 1987
Employment
Associate Professor of Art - Pomona College 2001-Present
Adjunct Lecturer – California College of Art 2006 (spring)
Adjunct Faculty – Claremont Graduate University 2003
Lecturer – University of Washington 1999-2001
Instructor of Record and T.A.– Stanford University 1997-1999
Finish Carpenter-Contractor-Interior Finishes 1994-1997
High School English and ceramics teacher, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 1987-1989
Awards
Mellon Professional Activities Grant to research, Antoni Gaudi’s Architecture 2003
Experimental Television Center Performing Grant 2002
Artist Trust Gap Award 2001
Skowhegan Scholarship 1998
Cadogan/Murphy Award San Francisco, CA 1998
Best of Show N.Y.S.C.C. at Alfred University 1993
Lisle Fellowship travel to India 1988
Professional Presentations
Craft Thinking: Ideas on Making, Materials, and Creative Process 2016
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine Workshop: mending
Intimate Corners, Interrupted Surfaces, Norco College, Norco, CA
Travel, Landscape, and the New Frontiers in Sculpture; Sculptural Gestures 2015
Cultural Practices, 25th International Sculpture Conference Panel, Phoenix, AZ
(Cur)eat, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE. 2013
Food for Thought Lecture Series: University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2011
University of Miami, Miami, FL 2007
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 2006
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 2004
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 2003
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Lecture and Workshop, Portland, OR 2002
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2001
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
Bemis Center For Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE 1999
Nebraska State University, Omaha, NE
ArtPace -The International Artist-in-Residence, San Antonio, TX 1997
J.M Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Other Presentations
Lecture on Bread and Atmospheric Pressure, Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA 2014
For: The Los Angeles Department of Weather Modification
Citizen Culture, Santa Monica Museum Panel with Sean Starowitz,
and Ron Finley. Moderated by Asuka Hisa
Selected Exhibitions, Events, and Commissions
Ours is a City of Writers, LA Municipal Art Gallery (Barnsdall) 2017
Collaboration with Jenni Sorkin (Feb-April)
Intimate Corners / Interrupted Surfaces, (two person show,) Norco College 2016
Conglomerate Objects, Chan Gallery Pomona College
MOMO at Grist and Toll, Workshop on Dough and Bake
MOMO at Los Angeles Bread Festival, Central Market, Los Angeles, CA
Workshops and Community bake with the Institute for Domestic Technology
and regional bakers
MOMO, Book project with Becca Lofchie
Art 189C, Book project with Lucas Littlejohn
MOMO at Grand Park Picnic DTLA, Community Bake 2015
Bread Camp at Greystone Mansion, Los Angeles, CA
MOMO with the Institute for Domestic Technology
Perfect Strangers, Machine Project and the Hamiltonians, Colgate College
Object for Matt Malloy and Cass Donovan, Hamilton, NY
Object for Wynn and Everett Eggington, Hamilton, NY
Object for Irene Brown in memory of Coleman, Hamilton, NY
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Table, Objects for Friends, Gavin Chanin, Lompoc, CA
Own It, First Street Gallery. Claremont, CA
ArtLandProjects, Summer Residency with Artists Maggie Nowinski, Alicia Renadette,
Torsten Zenas Burns, Mark DeJong, Kari Gatzke, Denise Iris and
students: Joel Freeman; Lucas Littlejohn; Christopher Ames Harding
Studio Arts Hall Furniture Projects, January-October Claremont, CA 2014
See publication Art 189C
MOMO: Community Bake for local Pasadena soup kitchen with Grist and Toll
Pasadena, CA
MOMO at Grist and Toll, Pasadena, CA
Community bake
Citizen Culture, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
With Ron Finley and Sean Starowitz, community bake
The Machine Project Field Guide to The Gamble House, Pasadena, CA
MOMO with Josey Baker at Grist and Toll Community Bake, Pasadena, CA
MOMO at Machine Project Space and Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA
Workshop and Community Bake
MOMO at Grist and Toll Pasadena, CA March
Community Bake
MOMO at Alta Dena Farmers Market, Alta Dena, CA
Community bake with Institute of Domestic Technology
MOMO at Grist and Toll, Pasadena, CA
Bread Workshop and Community Bake
ArtLandProjects, Hamden, NY
One Rod – four sessions
Wheat Harvest
MOMO at Zane Grey Estate, Alta Dena, CA
Workshop and bake with Dave Miller
Butter Aerobics Anaerobic Bread, Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA 2013
Butter Aerobics Anaerobic Bread Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Community Bake with Grist and Toll – Pasadena, CA
ArtLandProjects, Hamden, NY
Students: Charlie Neibel and Nissa Gustafson
One Rod 2 sessions
Wheat Harvest
Cider Making
Timber framing cabin
Built community oven for Delaware Center for Contemporary Art
Cur(Eat), Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
MOMO inaugural community bake, Claremont, CA
With Los Angeles Bread Bakers
Objects for Friends Xavier and Nina Teixido, Wilmington, DE 2012
(commission)
Objects for Friends Rachel Watson and James Hegge, DelhiNY
(commission)
Butter Aerobics Anaerobic Bread, Machine Project Space, Los Angeles, CA
ArtLandProjects, Hamden, NY 2012
One Rod 3 sessions
Wheat Harvest 500 Bushels
Design and trailer build for MOMO
Adjunct Faculty Show, Claremont University, Claremont, CA 2011
Chain Mail, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Retcon, Parson Hall Project Space, Holyoke, MA
ArtLandProjects, Hamden, NY
SURP Student Lucas Wrench
Studio build out; tree planting;
Visiting Artist’s Residencies: Ben Dean, Sam Starr PO’10
One Rod 6 sessions
“Andre, You Forgot about the Fire” Summer Jubilee Machine Project
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Objects for Friends Kelli Cain and Brian Crabtree, Delhi, NY
(commission)
Objects for Friends, Stools for Better Living, for Stas, Cy and Alise Orlovski, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
Objects for Friends, Object to Accompany a Couch, for Torsten Burns and
Kari Gatzke, Holyoke, MA
Objects for Friends, Outpost, forRob De Mar, Amanda Krandal, Ryon
and Elizabeth, Brooklyn, NY
ArtLandProjects, Hamden, NY
Infrastructure development;
Visiting Artists Torsten Zenas Burns, Mark Dejong
ArtLandProjects, Hamden, NY 2009
Certificate of Occupancy for two buildings, studio and social space
Hosted Students Sam Starr and Sam Lewis
“Andre, you forgot about the fire” Event One, Parsons Hall Project Space, 2008
Holyoke, MA
“Andre, you forgot about the fire”, A Machine Project Field Guide to the
LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Objects for Friends for Rebecca McGrew, Claremont, CA
ArtLandProjects, Hamden, NY
Began construction of two buildings
LOCUS I: Art and Craft of Claremont and the Region, Claremont, CA 2007
Big Bang and Other Origins, David Salow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Tell, Galeria Fucares Madrid, Spain (Solo show) 2006
Current Sculpture Survey, Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
One Part Clay: Ceramic Avant-garde & Mixed Media,
SOFA, New York (international art fair) (June)
Dean Project, New York, NY (June-August)
Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City, NY (September–October)
MACO, Mexico City, Mexico (international art fair)
THING: New Sculpture in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A Hammer Museum, 2005
Los Angeles, CA
Ergonomicon, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
D.I.V.A., New York, NY (international art fair)
ARCO, Madrid, Spain (international art fair)
Take Shape, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Scope Miami, Miami, FL (international art fair) 2004
LucidLudic, Mt. Saint Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Show at cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA
25th Annual Benefit Auction, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Michael O'Malley, cherrydelosreyes Los Angeles, CA (Solo show)
Nineartistscrammedintooneroom, Peggy Phelps Gallery 2003
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
Bemis Benefit Exhibition, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Piezoelectric, Inshallah Space, Los Angeles, CA
Armory Outdoor Sculpture Installational, Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA
Auction Exhibition, Huntington Beach Arts Center, Huntington Beach, CA
Pomona College Faculty Exhibition, Pomona College Museum of Art,
Claremont, CA.
Omega Manual, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY 2002
Crafting Space, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Holland
Auction Exhibition, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
Venice Art Walk, Venice CA
Split, Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
(Solo show)
Donut shop #4, Watcom Museum of Art, Bellingham, WA 2001
Pleasure Craft, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Domesticity, Donut Shop #3, curated by Chris Moss, Portland, OR
Artist Trust Exhibition, Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, WA
Terraform1, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 2000
Annual Show, Noodle Works, Seattle, WA
Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Top Heavy, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (Solo show)
M.F.A. Show, Stanford University Gallery, Stanford, CA 1999
Driven by Conflicted Imperatives, Stanford University Gallery, 1998
Stanford, CA
Still, ArtPace: Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX 1997
First Year Show, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Minor Differences, Rrose Amarillo, Curated by Ken Little, San Antonio, TX 1996
Double Trouble, Blue-Star Art Space, Curated by Dana Friis-Hansen
San Antonio, TX
10+1, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX (collaborative) 1995
Art on the Square, Fifth 3rd Bank & InSitu Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Video Screenings
Bellevue Art Museum Film and Video Festival, Bellevue, WA 2001
Curated by Brian Wallace and Joel Bachar
Video Screening CMA Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Marginalia, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
Curated by Marco Bruer
Bellevue Art Museum Film and Video Festival, Bellevue, WA 2000
Curated by Brian Wallace and Joel Bachar
Residencies
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE 1999
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 1998
ArtPace -The International Artist-in-Residence, San Antonio, TX 1997
John Michael Kohler Arts Industry Program, Sheboygan, WI 1997
Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Edgecomb, ME 1993-94
Reviews/Publications
Sampson, Cherie. “Michael O’Malley: The Making & Breaking of Bread at theMobile Hearth,” AgArts, Artist Feature, 2016
http://www.agarts.org/agarts-artist-feature/
Art 189C: A semester of Making Furniture, Building Narratives, And Imagining a New Studio Art Space, Michael O'Malley (book project with Lucas Littlejohn,) 2016
MOMO, Michael O'Malley (Book Project with Becca Lofchie,) 2016
Halloran, Amy. THE NEW BREAD BASKET: How the New Crop of Grain Growers, 2015
Plant Breeders, Millers, Maltsters, Bakers, Brewers, and Local Food Activists Are Redefining Our Daily Loaf, Published by Chelsea Green, August 2015 ch. 7. 107-120
Offenbacher, Matt. “Living Outside of the Art World”; Edited by Daniel Webb, La Norda Specialo August 2015 Seattle, Washington
http://thenorthernspecial.org
A Thanksgiving community bread bake at Grist & Toll - LA ...www.latimes.com/.../la-dd-a-thanksgiving-community. Amy Scattergood, Los Angeles Times November 18, 2014
Bread Talk: Michael O'Malley and MOMO; Interview with Mary Parr, May 28, 2014 http://breadculture.org/michael-omalley/
Los Angeles Bread Bakers: MOMO in Grand Park March 2014
http://losangelesbreadbakers.blogspot.com/2014/03/momo-in-grand-park.html
Community Bread Bake at Altadena Farmers Market; Sami Cohen, March 2014
http://www.laweekly.com/slideshow/community-bread-bake-at-altadena-farmers-market-4496253
Machine Project’s Art Treasure Hunt at the Gamble House; Carolina Miranda, September 2014
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-machine-projects-gamble-house-sxa-festival-20140919-column.html
A Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA, “Andre, You Forgot About the Fire”, 2009 Michael O’Malley: p.104
McArthur, Park “Sequence of Good Intentions” Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art, 2008, w/commentary by Michael O'Malley
Reichert, Elizabeth “One Part Clay,” Ceramics Monthly November 2006
Kangas, Matthew. "A New Dimension of Young Sculpture Artists," The Seattle Times, July 14, 2006.
Peters, Sue. "New Sculpture Survey," Seattle Weekly, July 12, 2006.
Lippens, Nate. “Sculpture show connects diverse artists,” Seattle Post Intelligencer, July 28, 2006
Chattopadyay, Collette, “Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles,” Sculpture, November 2005
Wood, Eve“Los Angeles”, Art Papers September/October 2005
Bing, Alison. “ART ePicks: Take Shape,” SFGate, July, 2005.
Herbert, Simon. “Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles,”Art Monthly May 2005 No. 286 UK
Mack, Joshua. “Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles,” Modern Painters, April 2005
Bedford, Christopher. “Hot Young Things,” X-TRA, Vol. 7 No. 4, Summer 2005.
Lippens, Nate, “Conflicted Bodies; ConWorks’ Environmental Studies,” The Stranger, Vol 14 No. 28, March 24 – March 30, 2005.
Hackett, Regina. “Lively ‘Ergonomicon’ plumbs environments awash in fantasy,” Seattle Post-Inteligencer, February 25, 2005
“Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles,” Exhibition Catalog, February 2005
Freeman, Tommy, “Summer Show at cherrydelosreyes,” Artweek Oct 2004
Bedford, Christopher, Sculpture Journal, 2004
Miles, Christopher, “Michael O’Malley cherrydelosreyes,” Artforum, April 2004
Frank, Peter, “Viewpoint”. Artweek, Vol35, Issue 2 March, 2004
Myers, Holly, “Empty lot blank canvas” Los Angeles Times, Thurs., August 14, 2003
“Dreaming Red Creating Art Pace.” Exhibition Catalog, Edited with Pace and Russell. San Antonio, Texas
Smits, Alice, “Smart Papers Crafting Space” Exhibition Catalog, June 1, 2002 2002
Ellertson, Karrin, “Conceptual Art Exhibit “Split” pries inside psyche of viewer”, The Oregonian, Wed., Feb. 20, 2002.