Yashua Klos

In this artist talk, Yashua Klos will discuss his woodblock print based, multi-media practice. Klos’s work examines memory, identity, and Americans' relationship to labour through fragmentation, material, process, and scale.

Seating is first-come, first-served and everyone is welcome. 

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In his multi-media practice, Yashua Klos explores themes of identity, memory, and African Americans’ relationship to American labor. His large-scale works are created through intricate woodblock prints and monotypes, forming multi-dimensional, fragmented compositions that reimagine Blackness beyond traditional collage. Rather than using ready-made materials, Klos generates all source imagery through printmaking, assembling figures that exist within intertwined networks of history, myth, and lived reality. He received a BFA from Northern Illinois University and an MFA from Hunter College. His work has been presented internationally, including the major solo exhibition Yashua Klos: OUR LABOUR at the Wellin Museum of Art, and is held in several public museum collections. Klos lives and works in New York.

Conversations in Contemporary Art is a free event series sponsored by Concordia University's Studio Arts MFA Program. The series provides a unique opportunity to hear artists, designers, critics, writers, educators, and curators share their practice(s) and perspectives. 

This series is made possible through the generous support of Lillian and Billy Mauer.