Misha Kligman Artist Talk and Opening Reception

Learn more about 'The Luminous and The Given.'

Misha Kligman

Photo by Sam Kligman

This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture. RSVP for artist talk livestreaming link.

Misha Kligman: The Luminous and The Given will be on view in the Nerman Museum’s McCaffree Gallery May 1 through September 1, 2024. It will feature approximately 14 paintings made over the past five years. Kligman is interested in the poetic potential of often mysterious connections between seemingly unrelated objects and events. In this body of work, driven in large part by mystical encounters with nature, Kligman presents visions tangled with premonitions, while dreams and reality collide to reveal the luminous in the given.

Misha Kligman was born in Kazan, Soviet Union, in 1978, and immigrated to the U.S. with his family as a refugee in 1995. He received his bachelor’s degree in art from Cleveland State University in 2001 and master’s in painting and drawing from the University of Kansas in 2009.

Kligman is a recipient of the 2015 Charlotte Street Visual Art Fellowship and completed a three-year residency at Studios INC in Kansas City, MO. Kligman is a founding member of PLUG Projects, where he served as a co-director from 2011 to 2016. During Kligman’s time with PLUG Projects, the gallery received funding from the Francis Family Foundation, ArtsKC, and a Rocket Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation, Spencer Museum of Art, and Charlotte Street Foundation.

Kligman’s work has been published in New American Paintings and exhibited at the H&R Block Artspace (Kansas City, MO), Haw Contemporary (Kansas City, MO), the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS), and Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, IL). Kligman lives and works in Kansas City, MO, and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Johnson County Community College.