Michael Klein (born January 23, 1952) is an artist’s agent and freelance consultant and curator for individuals, institutions and arts organizations, writer, curator, and program director currently operating Michael Klein Arts in New York City.
History
Michael Klein Gallery
Between 1983 and 1997 Klein was owner and director of Michael Klein Gallery, New York representing some 20 emerging and mid career American and European artists.
Microsoft Art Collection
Klein served as the first Curator for the Microsoft Art Collection based in Redmond, Washington between 1999 and 2005 directing art acquisitions, commissions, collection management and an education program for the company’s 50,000 employees.
International Sculpture Center
Klein was the Executive Director of the
International Sculpture Center
The International Sculpture Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 1960 by Elden Tefft and James A. Sterritt at the University of Kansas. It is currently located on the old New Jersey Fairground in Hamilton, New Jersey
Its goal is ...
from 2005 to 2007.
Michael Klein Arts
Michael Klein Arts services institutional as well as private collectors with an eye to developing collections of emerging, mid career and established artists. Today Michael Klein Arts works with a diverse group of artists including Sanford Biggers, Glenn Goldberg,
Charles Goldman,
Ken Lum
Kenneth Robert Lum, OC DFA (; born 1956) is a dual citizen Canadian and American academic, painter, photographer, sculptor, and writer. Working in a number of media including painting, sculpture and photography, his art ranges from conceptual i ...
and Sam Van Aken.
Curator
As an independent curator Klein has organized museum and gallery exhibitions specializing in contemporary and 20th-century art topics in the areas of painting, sculpture and photography
for
Independent Curators International;
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Contemporary Arts Museum, USF, Tampa; Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans;
and Meadows Museum, Shreveport, LA.
Writer
Klein has been a regular contributor to Sculpture Magazine
in addition to writing reviews and feature articles for
Art in America
''Art in America'' is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world in the United States, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It i ...
,
ARTnews,
Artnet
Artnet.com is an art market website. It is operated by Artnet Worldwide Corporation, which has headquarters in New York City, in the United States, and is owned by Artnet AG, a German publicly traded company based in Berlin that is listed on t ...
and theartsection.com. He has authored catalog essays on such artists as David Bates,
Lynda Benglis,
Jane Dickson
Jane Dickson (born May 18, 1952) is an American painter. She lives and works in New York City. (New York).
Biography
Dickson received her B.A. at Harvard University (1976) and a Studio Diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ...
,
Mel Kendrick
Mel Kendrick (born July 28, 1949), is an Contemporary art, American artist, known primarily for his sculpture, sculptural work in wood, bronze, rubber, paper and, most recently, cast concrete. Kendrick's work reflects a deep fascination with proce ...
,
Alex Katz
Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints.
Early life and career
Alex Katz was born July 24, 1927, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, as the son of an émigré who ha ...
,
Louise Nevelson and
Paul Thek, as well as articles on
Jonathan Borofsky,
Sol LeWitt,
Malcolm Morley
Malcolm A. Morley (June 7, 1931 – June 1, 2018) was a British-American artist and painter. He was known as an artist who pioneered in varying styles, working as a photorealist and an expressionist, among many other styles.
Life
Morley was ...
,
and
H.C. Westermann
H. C. Westermann (Horace Clifford "Cliff" Westermann) (December 11, 1922 – November 3, 1981) was an American sculptor and printmaker. His sculptures frequently incorporated traditional carpentry and marquetry techniques. From the late 1950 ...
.
Educator
Klein serves as adjunct faculty to
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...
in Brooklyn and
New York University in New York. He taught fine arts at the School of Visual Arts from 1979–1982 and art history at Kean University from 1996 – 1998.
References
External links
Michael Klein Arts website
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American art dealers
Living people
1952 births
New York University faculty