Amy Kligman (born 1979, Jeffersonville, IN) is an artist and arts organizer living in Kansas City, MO. Kligman's practice is centered on people, space, and care, and her 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 in 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 five artist-curators who established Plug Projects, a collaborative artist-run project space in Kansas City’s West Bottoms. She was the Executive Artistic Director at Charlotte Street Foundation from 2015-2024. Kligman is a lecturer at the Kansas City Art Institute, teaching classes in Foundations and Pro-Practice. She is in the process of developing Parlor, a contemporary arts-based salon and community hub in Kansas City’s historic Hyde Park neighborhood, with hopes to launch in 2027.
