Yashua Klos Chicago, Illinois, born 1977

Yashua Klos received his BFA from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb (2000) and his MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York (2009). Recent exhibitions featuring Klos’s work include Ancestral: Afro-Americas at the Museum of Brazilian Art FAAP (2024); the traveling survey Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary Collage, organized by and presented at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee (2023), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (2024), and the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (2024); and Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California (2022). The artist’s first major institutional exhibition, Yashua Klos: OUR LABOUR, curated by Tracy Adler, was presented at the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 2022.

Klos’s work is included in the public collections of the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. He has been awarded residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans (2022); the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont (2014); and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska (2012). Klos is the recipient of a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and a 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. He lives in Queens and works in Brooklyn, New York.