Invited to collaborate on a print at the Neiman Center in the fall of 2023, Yashua Klos turned to the medium of woodcut to create, Dreamer, a bold yet remarkably tender image of a young woman lost in thought. Although Dreamer is his first editioned print, Klos has used woodcut and monotype as central elements in his large-scale collage work, which considers themes of identity, memory and African Americans’ relationship to American labor.

Yashua Klos (b. 1977, Chicago, IL) received a BFA from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb (2000) and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York (2009). His work has been the subject of a major solo show at the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College in 2022 and included in numerous group exhibitions including at The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, IL (2024), the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (2023), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (2024), and Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (2024). Klos’ work is included in the permanent collections of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI; the Seattle Art Museum, WA; and the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Klos has been awarded several prestigious residencies including at the Joan Mitchell Center and Skowhegan and received a 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant and a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship.

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