Danielle Arden O’Malley is an independent artist and designer based between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Inspired by folklore, 90’s cartoon’s, femininity and the supernatural, her work weaves camp sensibilities, sugarcoated kitsch, and the odd & surreal into a weird and whimsical world of pastels, smut, fairytales and otherworldly creatures.
Her illustrations have been used to create a line of fabric designs, fashion accessories, art prints, greeting cards, home decor, jewelry, clothing and more.
Since graduating from the California College of Arts in 2010, she’s painted murals and participated in exhibitions internationally. She utilizes printmaking, gouache, acrylic, collage and found objects to create paintings, shadowboxes, life size playhouses, zines and murals.
hello@danielleardenomalley.net
EDUCATION
2007-2010 B.F.A. Printmaking, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2021 - Sign Graphics Program, Los Angeles Trade Technical College, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2019, The Future Risograph Residency, Minneapolis, MN
2010 The Mikae Hara Scholarship for Painting & Printmaking, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
SOLO EXHIBITION
September 2019, Untitled, Econojam Records, Oakland, CA
July – October 2013-2016, We Dance, Woodward Windows Project, Detroit, MI
February - April 2012, Walking After Midnight, Long Island Children’s Museum, Long Island, NY
September 2011, Underneath the Ozark Moon, Islington Mill, Salford, England
February 2011, Are We Home? Are We There?, Subrosa Collective, Santa Cruz, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION
December 2022, Best of the Hive, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
November 2019, Masters of Sculpture, The Hive, Los Angeles, CA
September 2019, Now That’s What I Call Another All Girls Art Show, Mise En Place, Oakland, CA
May 2018, Stomper On The Town with the Oakland A's, Oakland, CA
November 2017, Illegal, Luggage Store Gallery, Oakland, CA
August 2017, Blowing Kisses, 14th Street Supply, Oakland, CA
December 2015, Renegade Craft Fair Art Installation, Seattle, WA
August 2015, Haxan Film Festival, OmniCommons, Oakland, CA
September 2014, Zine Fair/Art Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
February 2014, Sulphur Cinema Short Film Festival, Turpentine Gallery, Oakland, CA
August 2013, You and Who’s Army? Old Furniture Factory, Detroit, MI
March 2012, Post No Bills, New Orleans Community Printshop, New Orleans, LA
May 2011, The Flower Show, Art Effect Gallery, Detroit, MI
MURAL PROJECTS (click link for photograph of work)
November 2021, Umbrella Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, CA
August 2019, Perch Coffeehouse, Oakland, CA
October 2018, Paint Gary Indiana Project, Gary, IN
September 2018, Plaza Walls Mural Festival, Oklahoma City, OK
April 2018, The Bark, Tallahassee, FL
March 2018, St Coffee, New Orleans, CA
February 2018, Poor Boys Bar, New Orleans, CA
November 2017, Telegraph Beer Garden, Oakland, CA
September 2017, Jones Street Mural Project with the Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
September 2017, Mural for Alberta Art Works, Portland, OR
August 2017, Mural for Solano Alley, Oakland, CA
May 2017, Mural for Burma Superstar, Oakland, CA
August 2016, Skatehalle Mural, Berlin, Germany
June 2016, Morgan's Landing Farm Mural, Sauvie Island, Portland, OR
October 2015, Where We All Come From, Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, CA
July 2015, Messages From The Moon, Raices Infoshop/Cafe A, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico
May 2015, Our Secret Language, Murals of Life and Hope at Revolution Cafe, Oakland, CA
July 2010, Cake Men Mural for Turkish Bakery, Berlin, Germany
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
January & April 2019, Chabot Science Museum, Oakland, CA
February 2012, Long Island Children’s Museum, Long Island, NY
September 2010 – December 2010, Berkeley High School Art and Humanities Academy, Berkeley, CA
September 2007 – May 2010, Longfellow Middle School After School Program, Berkeley, CA