Vera Klute is a multi-disciplinary artist. She was born in Germany but is based in Ireland since 2001. She has had solo exhibitions at the RHA, the Butler Gallery, Limerick City Gallery (2-person show), the Molesworth Gallery, QSS Gallery and the LAB. Her work is part of public and private collections including the National Gallery, the National Self-Portrait Collection, the Arts Council, the Office of Public Works, Trinity College and The Butler Gallery.
Most recently she won the Hanley Energy Sustainability Excellence Award (2021). Other awards include the Solomon Fine Art Award for sculpture (2020), the Hennessy Portrait Prize at the National Gallery and the Hennessy Craig Scholarship at the RHA (both 2015), the K+M Evans Award (2013) and the EVA Award at Wexford Arts Centre (2009). She has been received several Arts Council Bursary Awards and was elected Associate Member of the RHA in 2018 and elevated to full Membership in 2023. Klute is represented by the Molesworth Gallery, Dublin.