Alyssa Klauer

Alyssa Klauer is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017 and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2019. She has been awarded the TOY Foundation Fellowship alongside the NXTHVN Studio Fellowship, and was nominated for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Toby’s Prize. In addition to being written about in The New York Times, Vogue and New American Paintings, her work has been exhibited at venues such as Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Fredericks & Freiser, New York; and the Museum of Museums, Seattle. Her work meditates on “Queer Time,” the idea that Queer individuals often experience a delayed or second adolescence when encountering time-bending experiences such as coming out later in life.