Ray Kleinlein

Ray Kleinlein was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1969. He studied at the Ohio State University and the Columbus College of Art and Design, and earned his master’s degree in painting and art history at Ohio University.

He had his first one man show while still in graduate school. Since then he’s exhibited extensively in one person and group shows in galleries and museums throughout the United States, and in many art fairs such as Art Miami, Expo Chicago, and the Seattle Art Fair.

Kleinlein has won numerous awards and prizes including Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowships (twice) and a prize in the Miami University National Young Painters Competition. His work has also been chosen for juried shows by prominent figures such as artists David Reed and William Bailey, Hirshhorn Director James Demetrion, and New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl.

Ray’s work has received national attention through features in the magazines New American Paintings and Southern Living, and has been consistently praised by critics through reviews in journals and periodicals such as The Charlotte Observer, The Columbus Dispatch, and The Commercial Appeal.

Kleinlein’s paintings are in hundreds of corporate and private collections throughout the world and the collections of The Canton Museum of Fine Art, The Zanesville Museum of Art, The Southern Ohio Museum, and Davidson College.

Ray lives with his wife and two children near Nashville, Tennessee.

Submitted by Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts