Vera Klement (born 1929
Danzig) is an American artist, and Professor Emerita at the
University of Chicago. She was a 1981
Guggenheim Fellow.
Biography
Klement graduated from
Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...
in 1950. She taught at University of Chicago, from 1969 to 1995.
In 1973, Klement was a founding member of
Artemisia Gallery, one of the Midwest's first feminist Cooperative Galleries located in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1987, she showed at the
Renaissance Society.
She was 2003 visiting artist, at
Goshen College,
and 2007 artist in residence at
Indiana State University.
Her work is in the collection of the state of
Illinois, The Kentucky Center for the Arts, and the Krannert Art Museum.
She lives in
Chicago.
References
External links
*http://veraklement.com/
*http://www.printworkschicago.com/artists/klement/klement.htm
*http://www.pkf-imagecollection.org/html/artistresults.asp?artist=1249&testing=true
*https://web.archive.org/web/20120406122842/http://www.fassbendergallery.com/artists/VeraKlement/
*https://web.archive.org/web/20120406122842/http://www.fassbendergallery.com/artists/VeraKlement/statements.html
*https://web.archive.org/web/20140110100515/http://www.luc.edu/luma/flash/35_klement.html
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1929 births
Living people
American artists
20th-century American women artists
Cooper Union alumni
Polish emigrants to the United States