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.