ARTIST BIO

Peggy Klineman was born in Pittsburgh, PA. She received her MFA degree in ceramics from the Rochester Institute of Technology and BS degree from the University of Arizona in Interior Design. While living and working as a designer in NY, Klineman studied painting at Cooper Union and at the Art Student League of New York. In 2015, she moved from New York City to Worthington, MA where she now lives and maintains her studio.

Klineman has exhibited her work in venues throughout the Northeast, including the Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT; ChaShaMa Pop-up Show, New York, NY; LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA; Dacia Gallery, New York, NY; Hudson Guild Gallery II, New York, NY; Firehouse Plaza Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY; CWOW, Newark, NJ; and Victory Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ.

Klineman artwork is in the corporate art collections of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Twenty-Two Liberty, Boston, MA; and Acadian Asset Management, Boston, MA. Her work is also in many private collections.

She is a recipient of the Wallace Library Purchase Prize Award from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and an Award of Merit from the Art Student League of New York.