Malone was born in Houston and has lived most of his life in the South and Southwest of the United States. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Houston (78) and an MFA from The University of Arizona (86). His artwork arises from a strictly imaginative, at times playful, interpretation of the universe. He paints in several formats, from the purely abstract series, among several others, called "Origins of the Natural World" to more representational thoughtscapes, cityscapes, landscapes, portraits and figurative pieces in the commonly called naive style, a mature version of his earliest artistic conceptions. Malone has received numerous awards and honors during his career, including a fellowship and grant to an individual artist from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2019, the publication Who's Who issued Malone a Lifetime Achievement Award. In recent years, his visual art has been shown in a number of galleries and exhibitions in the United States and Europe, as well as magazines and books such as International Contemporary Artists, Art & Beyond, Living Artists of Today and Hidden Treasures Yearbook. In 2010, he was the featured artist in two exhibitions at the old Icosahedron Gallery in Manhattan, and, in 2011, World Wide Art Books named him an International Contemporary Master. Over the next few years, he suffered through a damaged spine and a hurricane that destroyed his home and studio. Still, before Covid, he was exhibiting his work at galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Wichita, KS. Recently, he has been concentrating on new creative endeavors, with many projects, large and small, currently underway. Malone is also the author of three books of fiction, a novel and two short story collections. In his life he has served as a soldier in the US Army, a newspaper reporter and line editor, a book critic, and a lecturer/instructor in English literature and writing at several institutions of higher learning. His books include the award-winning "In an Arid Land: Thirteen Stories of Texas" and a novel, "This House of Women." He now lives and works at his studio in Rockport, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico.
For more information, please see his websites, An Arising Fine Art, at: paulscottmalone.net.
