Klement graduated from
Cooper Union in 1950. She taught at the University of Chicago from 1969 to 1995. 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 a 1981
Guggenheim Fellow. In 1987, she showed art at the
Renaissance Society. She was the 2003 visiting artist at
Goshen College, and 2007 artist in residence at
Indiana State University. There is an eleven-minute American documentary film about her, titled
Vera Klement: Blunt Edge (2010). Her work is in the collection of the state of
Illinois, the
Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, and the
Krannert Art Museum. The
Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C. holds the Vera Klement papers. == Personal life ==