Malish was born March 25, 1907, in Kitaygorodka village, near Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine, Russian Empire.
In 1934 Malish graduated from Odessa Art Institute, where he studied of A. Gaush and T. Fraermann. Since 1935 he lived and worked in Leningrad.
Since 1954 Malish participated in art exhibitions. He painted landscapes, still lifes, genre paintings, worked in oil painting, watercolors, and pastel. The most known as master of watercolors. Malish's personal exhibitions were in Leningrad (1975, 1976, 1977, 1985, 1988), Saint Petersburg (1996, 1997), and Stockholm (1991).
The leading place in Malish's art takes a lyrical landscape and decorative still life. The untiring search for the artist in the field of colors predetermined his address to the decorative painting, to the synthesis of colors, where dominated his favorite light-blue and blue, lilac, cherry and violet hues, providing major sounding painting.
Malish almost always painted his works from memory, by notion, so, they are distinguished by special emotional excitement, saturation and color purity.
Malish was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 – Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) since 1955.
Malish died on October 25, 1998, in Saint Petersburg. His painting and watercolors reside in State Russian Museum, in art museums and private collections in Russia, France, Sweden, Norway, England, US, China, Japan, and other countries.
