Selected Press
“To Watch: Yashua Klos” - Interview
Whitewall, Fall 2025
Yashua Klos merges family history, urban narratives, and powerful woodblock printmaking to redefine Black identity on a monumental scale.
“Embraced by Wildflowers, Black Figures Emerge Defiantly Resilient in Yashua Klos’s Collaged Portraits”
Colossal Magazine, August 2024
“Piecing Together a Black Identity, and a Whole Black World” - Feature
New York Times, December 2023
One of the greatest astonishments of “Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary Collage,” on display through Dec. 31 at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, is that no major institution has ever before mounted a comprehensive showcase of work by Black collage artists. One of the most original things about the exhibition, in other words, is the fact of its existence.
“Nerding Out at New York’s Print Fair” - Feature
Hyperallergic, October 2023
… Yashua Klos’s“Our Labour” (2020) sprawling woodblock print mural was [a nod] to historically marginalized artists and histories. Measuring 40 feet, the installation is a reinterpretation of Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals (1932-33). But unlike Rivera’s 27-paneled fresco depicting mostly White Ford Motor Company workers during the automobile industry boom, Klos’s “Our Labour” focuses on the important yet overlooked role of Black Laborers in American history.
