Brenda Mallory
- Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency 2025
Brenda Mallory lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
She grew up in Oklahoma and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She received a BA in Linguistics & English from UCLA and a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Mallory has received grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, Ford Family Foundation and the Regional Arts & Culture Council. Awards include the Hallie Ford Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum Contemporary Native Art Fellowship, Native Arts and Culture Visual Arts Fellowship, and the Ucross Native Fellowship. Residencies include Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency, Anderson Ranch, Ucross, Pulp & Deckle Papermaking, Bullseye Glass, and International Studio & Curatorial Projects. Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Portland Art Museum, Heard Museum, and Hallie Ford Museum.
Texture and repeated rhythmic forms are instrumental to Mallory’s abstract compositions and installations. “Sewing” together soft cloth forms – mainly reclaimed materials – with industrial hardware, she explores ideas of dominion, disruption and repair, and interconnections in long- established systems in nature and human cultures.
Texture and repeated rhythmic forms are instrumental to Mallory’s abstract compositions and installations. “Sewing” together soft cloth forms – mainly reclaimed materials – with industrial hardware, she explores ideas of dominion, disruption and repair, and interconnections in long- established systems in nature and human cultures.