Martin Maloney was born in London in 1961. Having initially graduated with a degree in English from Sussex University in 1983, Maloney went back to University to study Art at Central Saint Martins, followed by Goldsmiths College in 1991. Having embarked on his artistic career slightly later than some, Maloney combined his painting practice with art journalism for magazines such as Artforum and Flash Art. His strong interest in art history, theory and criticism, and his own social observations of the world ultimately shaped much of his artistic practice.
Following his success in the Saatchi ‘Sensations’ exhibition at the Royal Academy, Martin Maloney has exhibited extensively on an international scale including in Berlin, Tel Aviv, New York, Seoul, and Amsterdam. Notably, he was selected for the John Moores painting prize in 2002, and exhibited in prestigious institutions such as in ‘New Neurotic Realism’ at the Saatchi Gallery, London, as well as in ‘Family Fortunes’ at the National Gallery, London.