Books and Catalogues
"The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World," ed. Robert Cozzolino, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2012
"Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s," ed. David S. Rubin, The MIT Press, 2010
"Mala Iqbal," New American Paintings, Issue #80, 2009
Articles and Reviews
Hakim Bishara, "Five Art Shows to See in New York Before July Ends," Hyperallergic, July 16, 2024
Andrew Paul Woolbright, "Mala Iqbal: Shape Shifting in the Outer Boroughs and Its Effects on the Traveler’s Perception of the Midnight Sky," The Brooklyn Rail, October 2022
Rhea Nayyar, "Artists Raise $85K for Relief in Flood-Stricken Pakistan," Hyperallergic, October 3, 2022
Penelope Green, "Painting by Numbers," The New York Times, February 5, 2015
"Art and Ageism: The Decisive Eye of Fellow Artists," NY Arts Magazine, Vol 20, N. 3, Summer 2013
Dinesh Sharma, "Cultural diffusion of news: New blood in the American News Media," Al Jazeera.com, January 14, 2013
Zeenat Nagri, "Homeward Bound," Time Out Mumbai, October 15 - 28, 2010
Sharmistha Ray, "A World of One's Own," MW magazine, August 2009
"Speaking in Tongues," StyleMag, April 8, 2009
Colleen Asper, "Mala Iqbal," Issue X, Beautiful/Decay Magazine, September 2008
Murtaza Vali, "Mala Iqbal: Washed Away," Art Asia Pacific Magazine, No. 57, Mar/Apr 2008
"Mala Iqbal," The New Yorker, January 7, 2008
R.C. Baker, "Acid Reign," The Village Voice, December 26, 2007
Murtaza Vali, "Mala Iqbal," Paper Magazine, December 19, 2007
Raphael Risemberg, "Mala Iqbal," The New York Blade, December 14, 2007
"The Most Splendid Apocalypse," The New Yorker, August 1, 2005
Andra Bellni and Sonia Campagnola, "I Nuovissimi di New York," Flash Art Italia, November 2004
Peter Nagy, "Through Customs", Art Asia Pacific, January 2004
Hrag Vartanian, "Mala Iqbal: Misty," The Brooklyn Rail, NY, December 2003