Alia Malley (b.1973) was born in La Jolla, California, and raised in Portland,
Oregon. She received her BA in Critical Studies from USC School of Cinematic
Arts, and her MFA from UC Riverside in 2010. She lives and works in Los
Angeles.
Her series Southland won the 2010 Merck Award at the Darmstädter Tage der
Fotografie, and was presented as a solo exhibition at Sam Lee Galley, Los
Angeles in 2010. She was a 2009 Runner Up at the Forward Thinking
Museum/JGS, and a Finalist/Honorable Mention at the Newspace Center for
Photographyʼs 2008 Juried Exhibition, curated by TJ Norris. She has
participated in recent group exhibitions including Neighborhood, at the
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Backyard, at Sam Lee Gallery -
Pacific Design Center; SHFT, curated by Edie Kahula Pereira at pop-up gallery
locations in New York & Los Angeles; Sculpting Time at the Martin Art Gallery,
Muhlenberg College, curated by Ara Osterweil; and the 2009 CAA Los Angeles
MFA Exhibition, curated by Alex Klein.
