Michael Maloney

Michael Maloney (born 1950) is a Los Angeles-based art appraiser and art dealer. He owned and operated the Michael Maloney Gallery in Santa Monica, California (1985–90) and Maloney Fine Art in Culver City, California (2006–16), and since 1998 has pursued a career as an art appraiser and private dealer in Los Angeles and New York. Maloney represented and exhibited a wide range of internationally established and then-emerging artists, including John Baldessari, Jean Michel Basquiat, Travis Collinson, Jeff Colson, Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kim McCarty, Robert Motherwell, Joel Otterson, Ed Ruscha, Malick Sidibé and Andy Warhol. The two galleries and their exhibitions were written about in many publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Artillery, LA Weekly, and Huffington Post, among others. Life and career Maloney was born in 1950 in Los Angeles. After studying graphic design and illustration at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, he moved to Boston and opened his first galleries, East End Gallery and West End Gallery (1980–5) in the seaside resort of Provincetown; the galleries' summer-only programs focused on work by young Boston, New York and Los Angeles artists such as Jean Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente and Keith Haring, as well as established ones such as David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell and Andy Warhol. During the winter months, Maloney worked for the Hokin Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida and Jan Turner Gallery in Los Angeles. In 1985, he returned to California and opened the Michael Maloney Gallery in Santa Monica, which remained open until early 1991. During the 1990s, Maloney pursued work in New York (including with Gagosian Gallery) and Los Angeles as a private art dealer and curator, before establishing himself as an art appraiser and Director of 20th Century Art for Butterfield & Butterfield Auctioneers (now Bonhams) in California in 1998. Since that time, he has worked as an independent appraiser, and in 2006, opened Maloney Fine Art in Culver City, California, which operated through 2016.