Kristin Malin grew up in New Orleans and received her BFA in painting from Louisiana State University in 1979, graduating magna cum laude.  She attended The New York Studio School in 1980 and received her MFA in painting from Columbia University in 1983.  In New York, she exhibited in east village galleries, received an Artist’s Space grant, and worked at the N.Y. Council for the Humanities and the Environmental Defense Fund.  In 1988, Malin moved to the coast of Maine, where she continued to paint and has been active on the school board at the local, state and national levels.  She has exhibited at The O’Farrell Gallery, the L.C. Bates Museum, the legislative galleries of the Maine Arts Commission, and the New York Studio School Gallery. She executed exhibition murals for the Maine Maritime Museum, was a visiting artist in local schools and libraries, and chaired the gallery committee of the Center for the Arts in Bath, ME.  Her work was included in The Art of Maine in Winter by Carl Little.  She currently exhibits her work at The Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, ME.  She recently had work accepted in the Juried Biennial Exhibit and “Up Close” at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, ME.  This past summer she participated in an artist residency on Governors Island in New York.

More work can be found at www.kristinmalin.com and www.caldbeck.com

 

Checklist

1.Manhattan from Governors Island, 2007 Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches

2. Surface: Water - New York Harbor, 2007 Oil on canvas, 16 x 16 inche