B. 1951
  
Deborah Klein is one of Australia’s most compelling contemporary artists, and she is best known for her focus on feminism and women's histories, exploring both with unexpected nuance and intrigue. Working across a wide-ranging practice that includes linocut printmaking and intricately detailed acrylic paintings, Klein constructs layered artistic narratives that resonate with both historical and contemporary significance.

Born in Melbourne in 1951, Klein lived and worked in London from 1973 to 1980. She has exhibited regularly in both solo and group exhibitions since 1987, and in 2009 she established Moth Woman Press, through which she published artist books and zines. Since 2019, she has been permanently based in Ballarat. 

Represented in public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Klein has won several awards over her career, including the Grand Prize, Silk Cut Award for Linocut Printmaking. In 2008 the survey show ‘Deborah Klein: Out of the Past 1995 - 2007’ toured to Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Warrnambool Art Gallery and Deakin University Art Gallery, Victoria.