Micha Klein

Micha Klein (Harderwijk, 1964) graduated in 1989 at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam as the first artist to receive a BA in computer-graphics.

Since 1989 Klein, as a fine artist, held exhibitions in galleries and
museums worldwide showing monumental photo-panels utilizing diverse
digital techniques and styles. His digital "paintings" draw attention with their bright colors and smooth surfaces, but show underneath, a unique world with references to art history and pop culture.

In 1998 the Groninger Museum honored Micha Klein with a retrospective of 10 years of his digital art and video.

After that, shows followed in London, Tokyo, Milan and San Francisco.
In 2000 a show at the prestigious Mary Boone Gallery in New York started
his career in the United States. Rapper Eminem went on tour using Klein's
notorious character "Pillman" in specially made background projections.

Klein's work is in the collection of the following museums: LACMA Los Angeles, Denver Art Museum, Arken Museum