Malik’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her first solo show, titled ‘a cage elusive as a shadow’ took place at Sanat Initiative, Karachi, in 2016. In the same year, she received a Special Commendation from Dentons Art Prize, London, and in 2018 was nominated for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Her second solo show, ‘the soul breathes differently’, took place at Satrang Gallery in Islamabad. Her third solo show, ‘The Life of an Image,’ was at Khaas Contemporary in 2022. She has shown her work at Coningsby Gallery (London), Asia House (London), and COMO Museum of Art (Lahore). She was a participating artist in the Lahore Biennale 2020 as a member of the Pak-Khawateen Painting Club.
As a curator, Malik has been interested in engaging audiences in Pakistan through contemporary art outside traditional art spaces. Under The Creative Process, an artistic platform she founded, Malik curated ‘Of Other Spaces’ (2017), followed by ‘River in an ocean’, an exhibition co-curated with artist-curator Abdullah Qureshi as a collateral event of the Lahore Biennale 2018. ‘Unmaking History’, a group exhibition co-curated with Saher Sohail and Laila Rahman, took place at the Research and Publication Centre in Lahore in 2019. In 2023, Malik curated the exhibition ‘The Unforgotten Moon: Liberating Art from Guantánamo Bay’, which took place at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi.