ART KLEINMAN
EDUCATION
1971 B.F.A., University of Kansas
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 “Particular Arrangements,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2001 “Presence,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2000 “Art Kleinman, Self Conscious,” Chicago Cultural Center
1996 “Reflection,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1989 Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1987 Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1986 Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 Timothy Burns Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1980 Barbara Balkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
Landfall Press Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 "Peace," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2016 “Presence,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2015 “Works on Paper,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2011 “SILVER,” 25th Anniversary Show, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2010 “Art Chicago 2010,” Atrium Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 “Art Chicago 2009,” Atrium Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 “People and Places,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2007 “Body / Spirit,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2006 “10 for 20” 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2005 “With Spirit,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2004 CITIRAMA, St. Louis, MO
2003 “Art Palm Beach,” Atrium Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Atrium Gallery at HOK, St. Louis, MO
2002 “Contemporary Drawing Salon,” Northeastern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Scale It,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Art Palm Beach,” Atrium Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2001 “Introspection,” Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, IL
2000 “Realism Invitational,” van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
“Realism Today,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Mirror on the Millenium: Self-Portrait,” Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
1999 “Millennium Madness,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Recycled Paper II,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Realism Invitational,” van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
“Pulp,” Standard Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 “Who?” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Realism ‘98,” Van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1997 “Drawing In Chicago Now,” Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN
“Windows,” Van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
St. Charles Art & Music Festival, Norris Gallery, St. Charles, IL
“Figure Eight,” Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
“Drawing in Chicago Now,” Koehnline Visual Arts Center, Oakton Community
College, Des Plaines, IL
1996 “Drawing in Chicago Now,” Columbia College, Chicago, IL
“Stateline Vicinity Exhibition,” Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
“A.R.C. Gallery Regional, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Figurative Impulses,” Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
“Evanston and Vicinity,” Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1995 “Alice and Arthur Baer Competition,” Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL
1994 “Art, Faith, and the New Spirituality,” The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
“Norris Gallery Vicinity,” Norris Gallery, St. Charles, IL
“Faculty Exhibition,” Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1993 “New Chicago,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Deluge,” Lyons-Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Norris Gallery Vicinity,” Norris Gallery, St. Charles, IL
“Faculty Echibition,” Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1992 “Norris Gallery Vicinity,” Norris Gallery, St. Charles, IL
“Rockford and Vicinity,” Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
1991 “Faculty Exhibition,” Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1989 Selections From the Atrium Gallery: Messing Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Chicago Artists in the European Tradition,” Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, IL
1988 “Individuals II,” Compass Rose Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Geometric,” Atrium at St. Louis Design Center, St. Louis, MO
“Vicinity Show,” Norris Gallery, St. Charles, IL
“Looking Out,” Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
“Chicago Buy the Square Food,” Randolph St. Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987 “Paperworks,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sioux City Art Center Biennial, Sioux City, IA
1986 Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1985 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
Union League Club, Chicago, IL
1984 Timothy Burns Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“New Horizons in Art,” Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1983 Barbara Balkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 Timothy Burns Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Barbara Balkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
1981 Barbara Balkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980 “Chicago/Chicago,” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1979 “Paintings,” N.A.B. Gallery, Chicago, IL
1976 “Ferrar, Kleinman, Obuck,” Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park, IL
One Illinois Center, Chicago, IL
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Williama A. Koehnline Gallery, Oakton Community College, Desplaines, IL
US Bank, Inc., St. Louis, MO
Roberts, Perryman, Bomkamp & Meives, P.C., St. Louis, MO
Parkcrest Surgical Association, St. Louis, MO
Furst Group, Rockford, IL
Container Corporation of America
Arthur Anderson & Associates, Chicago, IL
Cottle & Cottle, Chicago, IL
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Sentry Insurance
Peat, Marwick & Mitchell, St. Louis, MO
Continental Corporation, Chicago, IL
Carey Ellis Corporation, Houston, TX
Lincoln Square Savings, Chicago, IL
Consultants in Women’s Healthcare Inc., St. Louis, MO
Morriss Holdings, St. Louis, MO
USAA, Miami, FL
Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1992-1994 CAAP Grant Visual Arts Review Panel
1993 Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1991-1994 Faculty, Painting, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1990-1999 Preparator of Exhibitions, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
COMMISSIONS
1984 Furst Group, “Relief XIX 84,” Rockford, IL
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2003 Artists Fellowship Award, Illinois Arts Council
2000 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, Chicago Office of Fine Arts
1997 The Open Studios Press, Winner of the Midwest Competition Number V,
Needham, MA
1996 Two Dimensional Category, Stateline Vicinity Exhibition, 1st Prize, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
1993 Lester J. Norris Memorial Award, Norris Gallery, St. Charles, IL
1992 Award for Excellence, Norris Gallery Vicinity, St. Charles, IL
1991 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, Chicago Office of Fine Arts
1988 Lester J. Norris Memorial Award, 1st Prize, Norris Gallery, St. Charles, IL
Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, Chicago Office of Fine Arts
1986 Elgin Community College Drawing Competition, 1st Prize, Elgin, IL
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2001 Kerman, Byron. “Me, Myself, and You,” The Riverfront Times, March.
2000 Brunetti, John. “Art Kleinman, Self-Conscious,” Dialogue, December.
Schroeder, Ivy. “Realism Today”, The Riverfront Times, August.
Berkovitch, Ellen. “Invitational show resists classification,” The New Mexican, July.
1998 Walker, Hollis. “In Reality, realism knows no bounds,” The New Mexican, August.
Jeff, Daniel. “Group Exhibit Explores Figurative Pieces Dealing with Identity
& Mood,” St.Louis Post-Dispatch, August.
1997 New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA, August.
1996 Wiles, Melissa. Artist Profile: Art Kleinman, Concentrics, Evanston Art Center, Winter.
Flanagan, Micael and Gustafson, Maureen. “Stateline Vicinity Exhibition Catalogue,”
Wasserman, Tina. “Figurative Impulses,” The New Art Examiner, April.
Wright, John. “Self Reflection,” The Riverfront Times, April.
Ferring-Shelpley, Carol. “Reflections of the Self,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March.
Artner, Alan. “New Planes,” Chicago Tribune, February.
1993 Ferring-Shelpley, Carol “New Chicago Art,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September.
1989 Wolf, John- Paul. “Immense, Exuberant Paintings,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November.
Schulze, Franz. “Hell-bent on Tradition,” New Art Examiner, Summer.
Sherman, Mary. “Show Lacks Connection...,” Chicago Sun-Times, March.
Artner, Alan. “Who’s on First,” Chicago Tribune, March.
McCraken, David. “Gallery Scene,” Chicago Tribune, February.
Warren, Lynne. “Chicago Artists in the European Tradition,” catalogue, February.
1988 Bulka, Michael. “Individuals II,” Ohio Dialogue, November.
1987 Spector, Buzz. “Art Kleinman,” Art Forum, March.
Yood, James. “Four Artists,” New Art Examiner, February.
1986 Warrren, Lynne, exhibition essay. “Abstract Painting and the Belief in
the Authentic,” Randolph Street Gallery, November.
1982 Ferger, Kim. “Review,” West End World, November.
King, Mary. “Review,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October.
1981 King, Mary. “Review,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June.
1980 Thorson, Alice. “Review,” New Art Examiner,
Saliga, Pauline, essay. “Chicago/Chicago,” catalogue, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, October.
“Chicago/Chicago,” Dialogue/The Ohio Arts Journal, September.
1976 Hoffman, Wendy. “Review,” New Art Examiner, November.
Artner, Alan. “Review,” Chicago Tribune, July.