Andy Malone CV
Education: Bachelor of Architecture, University of Detroit, 1996 plus Voltera Italy Study Abroad Program, 1992
Work Experience: Design Engineer in the exhibit, events, museum and custom furniture industry since 1996
Selected Exhibitions: (*Curator, Co-Curator or Juror **Solo Exhibition ***Commission)
Actual Size, detroit contemporary / Galerie Camile, Detroit, MI, 2023
Toys!, Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, 2023
Analysis Paralysis, detroit contemporary gallery, Detroit, MI, 2023 **
Team Earth - Innovation Exhibit at Dreamforce, San Francisco, CA 2022 ***
Shall Make Shall Be: The Bill of Rights at Play, Federal Hall, NYC, 2022
Strange Paradise, Ann Marie Garden, Solomons, MD, 2022
Hatchback 15, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, MI 2021
Art Mile, Online Exhibition, 2020
Hatchback 14, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, MI 2020
Open World Arcade, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH 2019
Actual Size 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Detroit Culture Club, Detroit, MI 2019
Durable / Flexible Popps Packing 10 Year Anniversary Show, Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI 2019
Essay’d Artist Talk, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI 2019
Happy Accidents, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, MI 2019 **
Mechanisms for Collaborative Artmaking, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI 2019
Playtest, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI 2019 **
Davison Music Festival Featured Artist, Berman Center, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2018
Bitters II, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI 2018
Black History Month Kickoff Exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI 2018
Afterhouse, 3347 Burnside, Detroit MI 2013-2017
Play Room, The Collective, Detroit, MI 2017 **
The Exquisite Corpse Machine and Other Mechanisms for Creating Collaborative Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI 2017 **
Remix, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI 2017
Art at the Max II, Max M. Fisher Center (Detroit Symphony Orchestra), Detroit, MI 2017
Text / Image, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI 2017
Now and Then - Artists Contemplate the Summer of 1967, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI 2017
Games: From Marbles to Minecraft. Ann Marie Garden, Solomons, MD, 2016
Art Prize 8, DeVos Place, Grand Rapids, MI 2016
Wish You Were Here, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI 2016
Actual Size 2016. Atrium Gallery, Detroit, MI 2016
Culture Lab Detroit, Nora, Detroit, MI Fall 2015
Art Prize 7, B.O.B., Grand Rapids, MI 2015
Essay'd III, 9338 Campau, Hamtramck, MI, 2015
Heroes and Villains, Ann Marie Garden, Solomons, MD, 2015
Conscious and Unconscious: Subjects of the Real & Surreal, Arvada Center for the Arts, Aravada, CO 2015
Porous Borders Festival (Mutoscopes), Detroit/Hamtramck, MI 2015
A. House, B. Home, Gross Pointe Art Center, Gross Pointe, MI 2015
Film Sketch Show, Detroit Culture Club, Detroit MI 2015
It’s Like Toys in Here, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI 2015
New Strategies: The Chess Show, Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI, 2014
Boggs Birdhouses, Lafayette Greens, Detroit, MI 2014 (Juried Grand Prize Winner)
Engage, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI, 2012
Pinewood Derby, Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI, 2012 and 2014
Toys: Re-Invent Re-Imagine Re-Discover, Ann Marie Garden, Solomons, MD, 2012
Game Show NYC, Teacher’s College Columbia University, NYC, NY, 2011 *
Come Play with Me, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI, 2011
The Big Question, West Shore Community College, Scottville, MI, 2011
Touch, Work @ Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2010
Playable Prototypes, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, 2010 **
Detroit Board Game Collective, Henry Ford Museum (Maker Faire), Dearborn, MI, 2010 * (Editor’s Choice Winner)
Touch, Ann Marie Garden, Solomons, MD, 2009
Semester in Detroit, Work @ Detroit, Detroit, Mi, 2008
Re:Action, Ann Marie Garden, Solomons, MD, 2008 (Juried Grand Prize Winner)
Artist Demonstration, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 2007 **
Actual Size, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2007
Fore Fun!, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, 2007 (Juried Grand Prize Winner)
Turning Points, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI 2007
Intersection, Work: Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2007
All Media Exhibition, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2007 *
Guns: Replacing Violence with Art, Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI, 2007
Automation, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2007 *
Tick Tock Fundraiser, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI, 2006, 2006
Animate Object, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2006 *
Out of the Box, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI, 2006
Blocks Rock, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Point, MI, 2006
Game Show Detroit, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2006 *
Billboard Project, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI, 2006 **
Animate Object, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2006 *
Caricature Show, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Point, MI, 2006 (Juried Second Place Winner)
Actual Size, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2005
Bravo Bravo Gallery Year 2, Detroit Opera House, Detroit, MI, 2005 *
The Other Auto Show, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2005 *
Home, Center for Creative Exchange, Detroit, MI, 2005
Bravo Bravo Gallery Year 1, Detroit Opera House, Detroit, MI, 2005 *
Uncaged, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2004 *
Actual Size, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2003
DEMF Sculpture Installation, Detroit Electronic Film Festival, Detroit, MI 2003
Selecti, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI, 2003
Sculpture Installation, Detroit Electronic Music Festival, 2003 *
Actual Size, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2001
Sheets, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI, 2001
Anti-Auto Show, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2001
Egypt-O-Mania, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, 1997 ***
Recent Boards and Groups
HATCH, Vice President, Board of Directors, 2018 to present
Protospiel, Game Designer, Playtester and Moderator, 2015 to present
Afterhouse Collective, 2013-2017
University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture Alumni Council, 2008-2011
Vice Chair on Board of Directors for the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, 2005-2007
Board of Directors for the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, 2002-2007
Awards and Grants:
2022 Artist Grant for installation at Dreamforce 2022, Salesforce Inc
2021 Artist in Residency, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University
2019 Grant Recipient, Detroit Institute of Arts, Mechanisms for Collaborative Art Making
2016 Honor, Art Prize 8, Top 100 overall in public vote for “Retrospective Loops”
2015 Grant Recipient, Kelloggs Foundation (for Afterhouse)
2014 Grant Recipient, Compuware Lafayette Community Garden beautification grant
2014 Grant Recipient, Porous Borders Festival
2011 Editor’s Choice Award: Maker Faire
2011 Grant Recipient, The Big Question, West Shore Community College, Scottville, MI
2009 Grant Recipient, Detroit Institute of Arts, Playable Prototypes Demonstration
2008 Grand Prize Winner, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Solomons, MD, Re:Action Exhibition
2007 Grand Prize Winner, Detroit Institute of Arts, Fore Fun mini golf course. DIA Grand Re-Opening
2007 Grant Recipient, Detroit Institute of Arts, Artist Demonstration
Collections:
Private Collection, Detroit, MI
Private Collection, Birmingham, MI
Private Collection, Beverly Hills, MI
Private Collection, Gross Pointe Farms, MI
Private Collection, Hamtramck, MI
Private Collection, Atlanta, GA
Private Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
Press:
Sharp, Rosie, “Conceptual Art You Can Play With,” Hyperallergic, 11/14/2017
Sharp, Sarah Rose, “Artists explore Detroit's painful summer of '67 in 'Now and Then' at DAM”, Detroit Free Press, 04/27/2017
http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2017/04/27/detroit-artists-market-detroit-1967/100983994/
Hester, Jessica Leigh, “Turning Detroit’s Abandoned Homes into Greenhouses”, The Atlantic, November 2016
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/the-greenhouse-effect/501143/
Sharp, Rosie, Essay’d: 30 Detroit Artists, 2016, Wayne State University Press
http://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/essayd
Sharp, Rosie, “Andy Malone”, Essay’d #25, 2015,
Sharp, Rosie, Essay’d III: A Diverse Class of Artists & Writers, Detroit Art Review, 08/29/2015
Sharp, Rosie, “From Carcasses of Cloth to Race Riot Chess, Some Highlights of Artprize 2015,” Hyperallergic, 2015
Sharp, Rosie, “In Detroit, an Arts Festival Crosses Borders” Hyperallergic, 05/19/2015
Hodges, Michael, “‘Toys’ Exhibit: A Little Nuts, I Lot of Fun,” Detroit News, 02/05/2015 https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/arts/2015/02/05/like-toys/22920335/
Held, Stephanie, “Playful Art Exhibit Opens Friday: It’s Like Toys in Here”, Daily Detroit, 01/14/2015
http://www.dailydetroit.com/2015/01/14/playful-art-exhibit-opens-friday-like-toys/
Sharp, Rosie. “’The Chess Show’ Makes Complicated Moves at Popps Packing”, Knightarts.org, 11 Dec 2014 http://www.knightarts.org/community/detroit/the-chess-show-makes-complicated-moves-at-popps-packing
Walters, Jamie Kaye (Prod.) Henderson, Stephen (Host). Episode 4023. American Black Journal. Air Date 25 Jul 2010
Dale Dougherty, "Makers and Spaces in Metro Detroit," Make: Magazine 23, 2010
Sousanis, Nick. “Moving On…” The Detroiter. 12 June 2008
Sousanis, Nick. “Art Detroit Now Now Now!” The Detroiter. 08 May 2008
Gordon, Ann. “turning points @ gallery project.” Detroitarts, 05 Aug 2007
Sousanis, Nick. “The Year in Review 2006.” The Detroiter. 27 Dec 2006
Carducci, Vince. “Play Right.” Metro Times. 14 June 2006
Mazzei, Rebecca. “Mortal Combat.” Metro Times. 26 Mar 2006
Collins, Lisa M. “Muses and Muscle.” Metro Times. 12 Jan 2005
Mannisto, Glen. “Corpus Selecti.” Metro Times. 07 May 2003
Artist Statement
My art is a means for telling stories and solving problems. A long held fascination with mechanical movements, architecture and the mythology of Detroit lie at the heart of my kinetic sculptures and architectural games.
My works are interactive. They are intended to be handled, changed, manipulated and played. By turning a crank, stacking a block, pressing a button, drawing a sketch, or moving a game piece, the viewer is drawn in to engage the work and complete its purpose.
My work has a impulsive, hands-on feel which erases the traditional boundary between viewer and artwork. This aesthetic encourages the viewer to physically engage with the work and discover a deeper meaning. I love to observe the instant when someone realizes that the “toy” they are playing with has a subtext that they had not considered. In that instant, I invite them to see the world in a new way.