Education
Klevan studied at The Lviv National Academy of Arts, Ukraine from 1974-1979.
Klevan studied at The Lviv National Academy of Arts, Ukraine from 1974-1979.
Since 1990 he has lived in Israel. He taught painting and composition at the School Of Art Design in Lvov from 1979-1981. He has exhibited his art all over the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, and at international exhibitions in Norway, the United States, and Canada.
Third-generation art gallery owner Menachem Safrai, who runs the Safrai in Jerusalem and also holds exhibitions outside of Israel, has exhibited his work.
Exhibitions organized by Safrai between 1993 and 1995 include showings in Needham, Massachusetts. Providence, Rhode Island.
Indianapolis, Indiana. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Falls Church, Virginia.
Framingham, Massachusetts. Skokie, Illinois; Rochester, New New York And Walnut Creek, California.
Solo exhibitions of watercolors and oils in Jerusalem in 1995 (titled “Metamorphoses”) and Tel Aviv in 1996 (titled “Winter Mood”) were organized by the Safrai Klevan participated in the 1996 ArtExpo in New York, and exhibited in Waltut Creek in 2000, in El Paso in 2002, and at the Blackheath in London in 2002–2003.
He had a show Old City Caesarea, Israel, in 2004–2007. In 2004 he participated in a Safrai exhibition in Tucson.
His show titled “Beauty Transformation” was presented in Beit Asia, Tel Aviv, in 2005. In 2006, he participated in the Israeli Art Fair at Temple Sinai of Sharon and had a solo show titled “Time Transformation” at the Opera Hadasha in Tel Aviv.
Klevan has created his own recognizable style and absorbed the newest major influences, while holding to Israeli and Russian art’s rich traditions.