Michael Klein is an artist’s agent and freelance consultant and curator for individuals, institutions and arts organizations, writer, curator, and program director currently operating Michael Klein Arts in New York City.

Michael Klein Gallery

Between 1983 and 1997 Klein was owner and director of Michael Klein Gallery, New York representing some 20 emerging and mid career American and European artists.

Microsoft Art Collection

Klein served as the first Curator for the Microsoft Art Collection based in Redmond, Washington between 1999 and 2005 directing art acquisitions, commissions, collection management and an education program for the company’s 50,000 employees.

International Sculpture Center

Klein was the Executive Director of the International Sculpture Center

International Sculpture Center

The International Sculpture Center is a 5013 nonprofit organization founded in 1960. It is located on the old New Jersey Fairground in Hamilton, New Jersey...

 from 2005 to 2007.

Michael Klein Arts

Michael Klein Arts services institutional as well as private collectors with an eye to developing collections of emerging, mid career and established artists. Today Michael Klein Arts works with a diverse group of artists including Sanford Biggers, Glenn Goldberg, Charles Goldman, Ken Lum

Ken Lum

Ken Lum is a Canadian artist of Chinese heritage who lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. Working in a number of media including painting, sculpture and photography, his art is conceptually oriented, and generally concerned with issues of identity in relation to the categories of...

 and Sam Van Aken.

Curator

As an independent curator Klein has organized museum and gallery exhibitions specializing in contemporary and 20th century art topics in the areas of painting, sculpture and photography for Independent Curators International; Contemporary Arts Center

Contemporary Arts Center

The Contemporary Arts Center is a pioneering contemporary art museum located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The CAC is a non-collecting museum that focuses on new developments in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art and new media...

, Cincinnati; Contemporary Arts Museum, USF, Tampa; Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans; and Meadows Museum, Shreveport, LA.

Writer

Klein has been a regular contributor to Sculpture Magazine in addition to writing reviews and feature articles for Art in America

Art in America

Art in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...

, ARTnews

ARTnews

ARTnews is an arts magazine based in New York, founded by James Clarence Hyde in 1902 as Hyde’s Weekly Art News. It is published 11 times a year.ARTnews covers all art, from ancient to Post-modernism...

, Artnet

Artnet

artnet is an online service provider for the international art market with headquarters in New York, Berlin and Paris. Additionally, artnet has regional offices in China, the UK and Russia.- Business model :...

 and theartsection.com. He has authored catalog essays on such artists as David Bates, Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis is an American sculptor known for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. After earning a BFA from Newcomb College in 1964, Benglis moved to New York, where she lives and works today...

, Jane Dickson, Mel Kendrick

Mel Kendrick

Mel Kendrick , is an American artist, known primarily for his sculptural work in wood, bronze, rubber, paper and, most recently, cast concrete. Kendrick's work reflects a deep fascination with process, space, and geometry...

, Alex Katz

Alex Katz

Alex Katz is an American figurative artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.-Life and work:...

, Louise Nevelson and Paul Thek

Paul Thek

Paul Thek was an American painter and, later, sculptor and installation artist. Born in Brooklyn, he studied locally, at the Art Students League and the Pratt Institute. In 1951 he entered the Cooper Union....

, as well as articles on Jonathan Borofsky

Jonathan Borofsky

Jonathan Borofsky is an American sculptor and printmaker who lives and works in Maine.Borofsky was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University in 1964, after which he continued his studies at France's Ecole de Fontainebleau and received his...

, Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism....

, Malcolm Morley

Malcolm Morley

Malcolm Morley is an English artist now living in the United States. He is best known as a photorealist.-Early life:Morley was born in north London. He had a troubled childhood, and did not discover art until serving a three-year stint in Wormwood Scrubs prison...

, Matthew McCaslin

Matthew McCaslin

Matthew McCaslin is an American artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His work deals with the intersection of nature and technology, combining everyday construction materials or consumer electronics in a way that may invoke chaos or disorder, or formalism and...

 and H.C. Westermann.

Educator

Klein serves as adjunct faculty to Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...

 in Brooklyn and New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

in New York. He taught fine arts at the School of Visual Arts from 1979–1982 and art history at Kean University from 1996 – 1998.

External links

• Michael Klein Arts website