Carey Maloney’s career has encompassed finance, the art auction world, interior design and architecture, writing, and public service. He is currently on the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library, where he has been an active volunteer and supporter for over forty years. He and his husband, architect Hermes Mallea, founded the Library’s LGBTQ+ Initiative which has raised over $4 million and mounted multiple exhibitions. He served as a board member and treasurer of the MAC AIDS Fund, one of the largest funders of AIDS/HIV services and prevention, from 2008 until 2018.
His firm, M(Group)’s, projects have been published extensively and the firm was often included in the Architectural Digest AD100. He has published a monograph on the firm’s design work, “Stuff: The M(Group) Interactive Guide to Collecting, Decorating with, and Learning About Wonderful and Unusual Things” (Pointed Leaf Press, 2013) and has written travel and design pieces for “Architectural Digest”, “Elle Décor”, and “House Beautiful” magazines.
Carey, a native Texan, received an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management (Arizona) and a BA from Trinity University (Texas). He divides his time between New York City and the Hudson Valley.