CHRONOLOGY
Lyanne Malamed 1931-2022
1931
Born in Alton, Iowa, to Chris and Stella Schneider.
High School Graduation, 1949
1953
Graduates Briar Cliff College, Sioux City, Iowa.
1953–56
Attends the MFA program at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.
1956
Marries Sasha Malamed, who has a PhD in zoology from Columbia University.
1957
Begins exhibiting professionally at the Karamu
House and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Also works as a librarian.
1958
Sasha begins teaching at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York.
1959
Exhibits at various galleries in Manhattan, including Ahda Arts (1959–64), Artzt Gallery (1959–60), Carus (1962), Crespi (1963), and Waverly (1964–65).
1960
Wins first prize at the New York City Center.
1962
A son, David, is born.
1967
The family moves to New Jersey, where Sasha works at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine in Piscataway.
1975
Has a one-person show at the Somerset Art Association.
1981
Begins her primary series depicting elderly women.
1982
Has her first major museum exhibition, Lyanne Malamed: Later Thoughts, at the
Hunterdon Art Center, debuting her new series.
Begins experimenting with various media in the Mid-80s
1984
Has a solo exhibition at Dumont-Landis Fine Art in Princeton.
1985
Has a one-person exhibition at Temple Beth El in Somerset.
Participates in a series of solo exhibitions by eight artists at the Douglass College
Women Artists Series.
Has a one-person show at Rider College in Lawrenceville.
1986
Has a solo show at the Clarence Dillon Library in Bedminster.
1986–87
Lives in London with Sasha during his sabbatical and collects Persian miniature paintings.
1987
Façade (1986) is exhibited at the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition held at the Morris Museum in Morristown.
Has a one-person show at Mercer County Community College in West Windsor.
1988
Has a retrospective at the Trenton Artists Workshop Association (TAWA), affiliated with the Trenton
City Museum.
Exhibits Façade and Separate Faces (Plate 8) at the Hunterdon Art Center in a group show entitled Transformations: A Show of Contemporary Masks.
1989
David marries Sandy Jack.
Has an on-site solo exhibition at the Johnson & Johnson
Headquarters in New Brunswick, including five works in the New Jersey Artists Series. Other artists include Peppi Elona, Miriam Stern, Jonathan Lipkin, and Serena Bocchino.
1990
Has a one-person show at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania.
Has a solo exhibition at Rabbet Art Gallery in New Brunswick, entitled Plain Song: The Art of Lyanne Malamed.
1992
Exhibits at Douglass College at Rutgers University in the Twentieth Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition in The Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series. Other artists include Joan Snyder, Howardena Pindell, and Joan Semmel.
Bristol-Myers Squibb purchases Hobby Horse (1992).
1993
A granddaughter, Lauren, is born. Lyanne’s paintings of children become more lyrical as a result.
Participates in the group exhibition sponsored by Johnson & Johnson and the Alzheimer’s Association in Parsippany that travels to Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Seven Women with Masks (1992), a huge work, measuring about 50 x 62 inches, with 23K gold leaf is purchased by Johnson & Johnson.
ca. 1996
Begins late work, focusing on mature women as seers.
1996
Participates in the Twenty-Fifth Retrospective Exhibition in The Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Other artists include Ida Applebroog, Louise Bourgeois, Judith K. Brodsky, Dorothy Dehner, Joyce Kozloff, Alice Neel, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Miriam Schapiro, Joan Semmel, Joan Snyder, Nancy Spero, and Pat Steir.
Lyanne Malamed & Lynn Peters: Paintings on Canvas and Ceramic Vessels is shown at the Rabbet Art Gallery.
1997
Lyanne exhibits Seven Women at the group show Becoming Old, at Marymount Manhattan College in New York. Howardena Pindell is among the participating artists.
Granddaughter Elena is born.
1999
Has another solo show at the Rabbet Art Gallery.
2000
Contributes to Still Working: New Jersey Artists Over the Age of 65 at The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Princeton, which included Miriam Beerman, Jacob Landau, Naomi Savage, Walter Culbreth, Jack Roth, Marguerite Doernbach, Thomas George, Riva Helfond, Margaret Kennard Johnson, and Sheba Sharrow.
Has a solo exhibition at the Hunterdon Museum of Art, curated by her dear friend, the celebrated potter Toshiko Takaezu.
A one-person exhibition takes place at Juniata College Museum of Art, in Huntington, Pennsylvania.
2001
Sasha dies in September, about a week after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, only 45 miles away from their home in Bridgewater.
Lyanne Malamed: Women and Their Masks is exhibited at the Chubb Atrium Gallery.
2004
Lyanne’s largest solo exhibition, Lyanne Malamed: Paintings and Drawings, takes place at the Somerset Art Association (now The Center for Contemporary Art) in Bedminster.
Lyanne Malamed: Paintings and Drawings is shown at the Arts Council of the Morris Area.
2012
Moves to an independent living facility in
Audubon, Pennsylvania, near David, Sandy, and her grandchildren.
The book Lyanne Malamed: Eternal Woman is published. Diane Fischer writes the main essay; Anne Fabbri and Lynn Siebert also contribute.
Lyanne revisits the medium of egg tempera, assisted by her son, David.
2016
Lyanne finishes her last signed painting, Woman Sketching Birds (Plate 25).
2019
Lyanne shares a two-person exhibition at Shannondell with her daughter-in-law, Sandy, who exhibits ceramics.
2022
Lyanne passes away on April 19.
The documentation of her work begins.
2023
Thirty-five paintings are exhibited in an exhibition with four other artists in Mystery, Memory and Magic at Morris Arts in Morristown. Her work is displayed in the premier Atrium Gallery.
2024
As of February, 563 known works of art have been identified. They are either available, sold, gifted, or lost.
A new catalogue, Lyanne Malamed (1931-2022) Eternal Woman is published.
Has a solo exhibition at Morpeth Contemporary in Hopewell, NJ accompanied by the catalogue Lyanne Malamed (1931–2022): Eternal Woman.
Has a one person Show at Northampton Community College Bethlehem, PA