Lina Elmalik is a Sudanese artist. She graduated with her MFA from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger painting program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2023; her BFA from the University of Sharjah in the UAE in 2019; and is a recipient of the Leslie King-Hammond Graduate fellowship.

Her figurative artworks create a pluralistic image-world that expresses ideas about Afro-Arab identity and heritage, the transformative nature of the Sudanese toub, isolation, deviance, and femininity. She confronts exclusionary behaviors within contemporary art by choosing to present installations composed of projections, prints, drawings, digital paintings and traditional paintings together. Her investigation of multiple mediums stems from her interest in the way that imagery and iconography is translated from one space into another. Her intersectionality and cross-cultural influences are the groundwork of her practice.