Vera Klement (December 14, 1929 – October 20, 2023)[1] was an American artist, and Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago.
[2] Born Vera Klementovna Shapiro in Danzig, Klement graduated from Cooper Union in 1950.
[3] In 1973, Klement was a founding member of Artemisia Gallery, one of the Midwest's first feminist Cooperative Galleries located in Chicago, Illinois.
She was married first to Israeli violinist Werner Torkanowsky and later to composer and conductor Ralph Shapey, but both marriages ended in divorce.
[1] Klement died on October 20, 2023, of complications from cancer and COVID-19 in Evanston, Illinois.