David Malek is an American artist living and working in Poitiers, a small medieval city in rural west central France. Born in 1977, he grew up in Illinois. He attended Beloit College in Wisconsin and obtained his MFA in painting from Hunter College in New York City in 2006.

Malek’s work has been shown in galleries and institutions in Europe and the USA, such as White Columns, New York; Martos Gallery, New York; Triple V, Paris; Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; Vedovi, Brussels; La Salle de Bains, Lyon and Ribordy Contemporary and Galerie Joy de Rouvre, Geneva.

The public collections Frac MECA in Bordeaux and Frac-Artothèque Limousin in Limoges have collected his paintings.