David Kleiner

David Kleiner was raised in New Jersey by parents who were themselves accomplished painters. He began oil painting at the age of 12, accompanying his father to local farms with an easel to paint pictures of barns "en plein air." He attended Rutgers College where he studied Russian Literature, and then Harvard where he received a Masters degree in Architecture. He has always maintained a painting studio throughout his life (except for that summer when he lived on a boat in Alaska and only had a sketchbook). Even in his college dormitory he was given a room in the basement to use as a studio. He has shown his work in cafes, bars, bookstores, galleries, and art fairs and is included in many private collections throughout the United States. He is proficient in oil, acrylic, encaustic and gouache, creating traditional easel subjects of landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, figures, and portraits. He owns a house in Weehawken New Jersey and makes his living as an architect.

1994 - Master of Architecture - Harvard Graduate School of Design
1987 - Bachelor of Arts - Comparative Literature - Rutgers College

2015 - Group Exhibition - "Dirty Little Drawings"- Leslie Lohman Gallery, New York, NY
2009 - Group Exhibition - "Painted Boy" - Leslie Lohman Gallery, New York, NY
2008 - Solo Exhibition- "Cityscapes" - Starbucks Flagship Store in the Empire State Building, New York, NY
2007 - Group Exhibition - "Dirty Little Drawings" - Leslie Lohman Gallery, New York, NY
2006 - Solo Exhibition - "Still Life"- Symposia, Hoboken, NJ
2004 - Solo Exhibition - "Recent Work" - La Prima Tazza, Lawrence, KS
2001 - Solo Exhibition - "Irrascible Groups" - Rebar, Seattle, WA