Yashua Klos (born 1977) is an American visual artist best known for his innovative large-scale collage works which address issues of identity, race, memory and community.

[1] He paints portraits of people from Chicago's South Side, highlighting narratives of suppression, denial, and pain associated with the vulnerability experienced in black communities.

There was a "stoicism" among the "black folks" Klos witnessed, an element he attempts to unpack by studying the behavioral nature of adapting and thriving.

[5] His interest in the technique grew out of the many African-American activists who employed it during the mid-20th century, such as Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, and Emily Douglas.

By cutting and etching using a series of erratic, jagged marks, he imitates this "kinetic devotion to image-making" that grounds this element of humanity he desires to achieve.