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Contemporary Figurative Painter
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Joy Kloman is currently on the Fulbright Specialist Roster, from 2025-2028. She resides in Hood River, Oregon. Kloman was a tenured Associate Professor at University of Mississippi, who supervised graduate and undergraduate painting programs. Professor Kloman also taught drawing in London. She earned her MFA from the University of Florida and BFA from Kansas City Art Institute.
Joy Kloman was recently awarded a generous Ford Foundation Career Opportunity Grant, administered by Oregon Arts Commission to attend Hangar Center of Artistic Research Artist Residency in Portugal in March, 2026. Her art is in many private and public collections internationally, including, Rothko Museum, Art Circle, Slovenia, ExtrArtis, Italy, Vilaka Museum, the future Valdis Bušs Art Centre, Latvia, Balatonfüred City Hall, Hungary, Ringling Museum of Art, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Pensacola Museum of Art, and Meridian Museum of Art.
She has also been the recipient of a Mississippi Arts Commission Individual Artist State Grant. She has had work displayed in The Drawing Center Viewing Program & Slide Registry, NY. Kloman's work has been included in nationally juried exhibits, such as the Florida Biennial, Sarasota Biennial, Boca Raton Museum of Art: All Florida, and has won many honors, including "First Award" in the Florida National and Masur Museum of Art: Annual. Kloman participated in numerous invitational international artist residencies: two in Latvia—Rothko Museum Symposium, and Valdis Buss (hosted by the Rothko Museum), Slovenia, Italy, Sardinia, and Hungary, and most recently, Vashon Island. Her upcoming residencies include Tuscany, Italy, and Lisbon, Portugal.
Her work can be viewed at https://www.joykloman.com/
Her art is in many private and public collections internationally, including, Rothko Museum, Art Circle, Slovenia, ExtrArtis, Italy, Vilaka Museum, the future Valdis Bušs Art Centre, Latvia, Balatonfüred City Hall, Hungary, Ringling Museum of Art, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Pensacola Museum of Art, and Meridian Museum of Art.
My artistic practice is an exploration of temporality. The sourced vintage photographs referenced in my art are a black and white record of days that have passed. In my figurative paintings, I have added color, creating tension between past and present. The juxtaposition of monochromatic with luminous colors suggests forging new paths. Concepts of restoration, impermanence, and archival documentation are examined in my praxis.
My work depicts ancient gingko leaves, creeping vines, foliage, and patterns of antique damask wallpaper enveloping figures; as if one is peering behind grandmother’s peeling patinaed walls, revealing a record of those once there. Capturing brief moments in time, my paintings suggest a sense of transience. My endeavors are in dialogue with ecopoets, such as Walt Whitman, A.E. Housman, and Emily Dickinson, who allude to our short-lived, yet infinite time on earth.
Bicycles, birthdays, classrooms, graduations, weddings, and occupations are all chronicled repeatedly in many cultures. My figurative paintings address these commonly catalogued occasions— delving into seemingly photogenic joys, rites of passage, school and workdays, which cumulatively represent an epoch.
Fulbright Specialist Roster 2025-2028
Rothko Museum permanent collection, Latvia
Ringling Museum permanent collection, Florida, USA
ExtrArtis permanent collection, Italy
Ford Foundation/Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant
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Emailjoy@joykloman.com
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Phone15414905858
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Websitehttps://www.joykloman.com/
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