Artemisinin resistance threatens world-wide malaria control and elimination. Elevation of phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate (PI3P) can induce resistance in blood-stages of Plasmodium falciparum The parasite unfolded protein response (UPR) has also been implicated, as a proteostatic mechanism that may diminish artemisinin-induced toxic proteopathy. How PI3P acts and its connection to the UPR remain unknown, although both are conferred by mutation in P. falciparum Kelch13 (K13), the marker of artemisinin resistance. Here we used cryo-immunoelectron microscopy to show that K13 concentrates at PI3P-tubules/vesicles of the parasite's endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in infected red cells. K13 co-localizes and co-purifies with the major virulence adhesin PfEMP1. The PfEMP1-K13 proteome is comprehensively enriched in multiple proteostasis systems of protein export, quality-control and folding in the ER and cytoplasm and UPR. Synthetic elevation of PI3P that induces resistance in absence of K13 mutation also yields signatures of proteostasis and clinical resistance. These findings imply a key role for PI3P-vesicle amplification as a mechanism of resistance of infected red cells. As validation, the major resistance mutation K13C580Y quantitatively increased PI3P-tubules/vesicles, exporting them throughout the parasite and the red cell. Chemical inhibitors and fluorescence microscopy showed that alterations in PfEMP1 export to the red cell and cytoadherence of infected cells to a host endothelial receptor, are features of multiple K13 mutants. Together these data suggest that amplified PI3P-vesicles disseminate widespread proteostatic capacity that may neutralize artemisinins toxic proteopathy and implicate a role for the host red cell in artemisinin resistance. The mechanistic insights generated will have impact on malaria drug development.