Sascha Mallon
b. 1967, Linz, Austria
Born in Austria and based in Beacon, New York, Mallon creates a large-scale wall installation incorporating wall painting, textile and porcelain elements. Mallon studied art therapy at the ISSA / School for Art Therapy in Austria and is a certified Meditation Teacher, trained at Tibet House New York.
Mallon has exhibited her work internationally, including a spotlight presentation at the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York (2026), as well as group exhibitions at Remote Gallery, Toronto (2025); The CAMP Gallery, Miami (2025); Pen + Brush Gallery, New York (2023); Pierogi Gallery, New York (2022); Albany International Airport, New York (2021), and the Katonah Museum of Art, New York (2020), among others. Since 2012, she has worked as a Hospital Artist-in-Residence with The Creative Center at Mount Sinai, focusing on oncology and bone marrow transplant patients. In 2014–2015, she received a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council to work with HIV patients through the PATH program at Brooklyn Hospital.
Mallon’s artistic practice was informed by narratives and imagery rooted in her early exposure to European fairy tales, particularly stories by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, which shaped her sensitivity to symbolic language and emotional complexity. Influenced by landscapes that balance beauty and unease, her work explores themes of care, vulnerability, and inner states through gentle visual forms. Working with ceramics alongside crochet techniques, she connects her practice to European craft traditions and slow, embodied modes of knowledge. Her Buddhist practice further informs her work, shaping an understanding of interconnectedness, impermanence, and compassion, which comes together in installations that reflect inner transformation while remaining open to shared human experience.
Selected Works
Where Thorns Hold Song (Dornen Lieder), 2026. Porcelain, Wall Painting, Site-specific, approximately 62 x 32 x 1 inches
Daeumelinchen, 2021/ 2026. Porcelain, found glass, silver, glaze, 19.5 x 20 x 17 inches
Unyielding Heart (Das Ewig Strebende Herz), 2026. Porcelain, underglaze, 28 x 11 x 26 inches
Highlights
Selected Press
Thomas, Taliesin. “10 Art shows to See in Upstate New York This November”. Hyperallergic, 24 October 2024.
Selected Show
Site-Specific Installation at Austrian Cultural Forum
Vally Wieselthier: Sculpting Modernism – Spotlight Sascha Mallon
Sascha Mallon: Wolf Tales, Kentler International Drawing Space, April 20–May 26, 2024
