Artist//Illustrator//Curator//Educator
MALISA is an Oakland-based Illustrator born and raised in Singapore.
She finds joy in reflecting on her world and the human experience, capturing moments that are oftentimes overlooked. Drawing from personal experiences, meditating on relationships, and celebrating the beauty of the human body are all reoccurring themes in her work. She has a strong attraction to natural and organic subjects, using art as a platform to create dialogues between life and death, man and nature, peace and conflict.
Using watercolors, gouache, and acrylic as her main medium, she remains a lover of traditional art in a technological age.
Upcoming Events
Vending: KERA-THON pop-up, 25th Sep 2022, Primarosa Salon, Point Richmond, 11am-4pm
Vending: Summer Moon Market, 30th Sep 2022, Alameda, 6pm-10pm
Showing: 510 All-Star Show, Nielsen Arts, Berkley, Dec 3rd 2022
Showing: Solo Show, Farleys East, Oakland, DATE: TBD
Vending: Makers Market, 8th Oct 2022, Santana row, San Jose, 11am-6pm
Vending: SJ Made Sidewalk Show, 15th Oct 2022, 11am -5 pm
Exhibitions
2022 Art Vendor, Makers Market, Santana row, SJ
Art Vendor, Head West Market place, Alameda
Group Show, As Far As We Grow, SJ Made, SJ
Group Show, Wonderland, Helvella Art, Oakland
Group Show, Mushi Mushi, Helvella Art, Oakalnd
Group Show, Spring Show, Fireside, Alameda
Virtual Show, Hearts In SF, San Francisco General Hospital Foundations
Group Show, Small Works Show, Soft times Gallery, SF
2021 Group Show, Miyazaki Spirit, Cukui Art Gallery, SJ
Art Vendor, Urban Air Market, SF
Art Vendor, San Jose Holiday Craft Market, SJ
Group Show, Miyazaki Spirit, Cukui Art Gallery, SJ
Virtual Online Show, "Through the Looking Glass", Voss Gallery, SF
2018 Art Vendor, Urban Air Market, SF
Group Show, Cat Show, The loin, SF
Art Vendor, Oakland Mural Festival, Oakland
Group Show, Black Light Show, Hero Complex Gallery, LA
Group Show, Flight of the Spirits, Cukui Art Gallery, SJ
Group Show, Valentines Day Art Show, The Loin, SF
Solo Show, Tenderloin Art Walk, Alter. SF
Group Show, Chinese New Year Art Show, Chinese Cultural Center, SF
Group Show, Send me Across the Sea. Vol.2, Book and Job Gallery, SF
2017 Group Show, 100.100.100, Fleetwood, SF
Group Show, Portrait Show, The Loin, SF
Group Show, Meow That's What I call Art, Vol. 2, Sketchpad Gallery, SF
Group Show, Art Span Open Studio, Journal Building, SF
Group Show, Good Vibes Only Art Show, Sketchpad Gallery, SF
Group Show, Meow, That's what I call art. Vol. 1, Sketchpad Gallery, SF
Group Show, Chocolate and Art Show, San Francisco, SOMA Art Center
Group Show, Sci-fi Noir, Heron Art Studio, SF
Group Show, Leading Ladies, Sketchpad Gallery, SF
Group Show, Official Archie Show, Gallery 1988 East, LA
Group Show, 100.100.100, Sketchpad Gallery, SF
Group Show, Send Me Across the Sea, Book and Job Gallery, SF
Group Show, Breast, An Art Exhibition on Form and Function, Public Works, SF
Group Show, Love Is Love, The Gallalary, SF
Group Show, Official Rick And Morty Show, Gallery 1988 East, LA
2016 Group Show, Moon Prism Power, The Gallalary, SF
Group Show, Tree and The Rock, Gallery 1988 East, LA
Group Show, Midnight, Light Grey Art Lab, MN
Group Show, Year of the Monkey King, Sketchpad Gallery, SF
Group Show, Deep Cuts: Kurt Russell Tribute Show, Public Works, SF
Group Show, No Touching: Arrested Development Tribute Show, Heron Art Studio, SF
Group Show, Alice in Wonderland, Hero Complex Gallery, LA
Group Show, Aqualumina
Group Show, Botanica; Jewels of the Earth, Light Grey Art Lab, LA
Group Show, Miyazaki Spirit, Sketchpad Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Solo Show, Untitled, Philz Coffee, Van Ness, San Francisco , CA
2014 Rhode Island School of Design Illustration Senior Show, RI
2012 Fall Harvest Exhibition Student run exhibition. RI
Harvest Exhibition Student run exhibition. RI
Pameran Postkad Exhibition, Singapore
2011 Daliah Gallery Exhibition, "Azalea beckons", Singapore
2010 Rainbowartsprojects, "Ladies Cut, Shampoo and Blow Dry", Singapore
LaSalle Diploma Show, Singapore
Minutes of meeting Exhibition, Singapore
Pameran Poakad Exhibition, Singapore
2009 Tape it up, Tape it down, Singapore
Almost Accidental Exhibition, Singapore
Clients
2016 School Of the Sacred Heart- Portraits of 8 buildings
Jessica Carew Craft- Comissioned sketch
2015 Hanger Magazine-Editorial Illustration
2014 Jabs- Ongoing collaboration with Brown university for a social and Ethical comic book
Black Lantern Music- Album Cover Commission
Steakout- Mascot Revision Illustration
Virginia Quarterly Publication- Editorial Illustration
One Armed Scissor- Album Cover Illustration
Blue Horse Camp Singapore- Logo and Flyer Design
Big Cheese and Pub- Logo Redesign
2013 Inch Chua - Album Cover Illustration
Lomography - La Sardina DYI Customization
Logam design – Commissioned Lobby Painting