Amy Kligman

Amy Kligman (born 1979, Jeffersonville, IN) is an artist and arts organizer living in Kansas City, MO. Amy’s practice is centered on people, space, and care. Amy’s studio work spans painting, social practice, and installation. She embraces a cacophony of coexisting social and political themes like gathering, ritual, unpredictable dualities, the mundane, class, and art and feminist history. Her work is exhibited nationally, and is the permanent collection of the Nerman Museum of Art, Hallmark Art Collection, and numerous private collectors. She is represented by Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, and has had solo exhibitions at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and Contemporary Art Museum Indianapolis.

 In 2011 Kligman was one of a team of 5 artist-curators who established Plug Projects, an artist-run project space in Kansas City’s West Bottoms. She was the Executive Artistic Director at Charlotte Street Foundation from 2015-2024. Amy and her husband, Misha Kligman, currently operate Special Effects Gallery in the East Crossroads of Kansas City. She is currently a lecturer at the Kansas City Art Institute.