[1] Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1982, Malinowski's family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia when he was nine months old.
The students from St. James appear on Jay Malinowski & the Deadcoast's Indian Summer EP, as well as their 2014 full-length album, Martel.
While attending Queen's University, Malinowski met Eon Sinclair and formed Bedouin Soundclash.
[13] After moving back to Vancouver in April 2012, Malinowski started collaborating with local string trio, the End Tree.
In July, 2012, it was announced that Malinowski would perform alongside Chuck Ragan, Cory Branan, Emily Barker, and Rocky Votolato for the European leg of the 2012 Revival Tour.
[16] Malinowski explains that the concept behind the album was loosely based on a distant French Huguenot relative of his, Charles Martel.
[18] In 2014, Malinowski inked an e-book publishing deal with HarperCollins for his book Skulls & Bones: 14 Letters from a Sailor at the End of the World.
[19] An illustrated novella, the book follows the travels of the sailor "Martel" through a series of letters written to his granddaughter, whom he lost contact with long ago.
Telling of their ancestral past, his life at sea, and the choices upon which their lives have been built, Martel's letters illuminate the power of stories passed down through generations—stories that changed over time, and that ruptured their family narrative, tearing them all apart.
The Crystal Gallery in Whistler housed a show of his in April 2014[21] and he has recently been commissioned by the Burrard Arts Foundation to create a mural which will be mounted in the Gastown area of Vancouver, which Malinowski calls home.