Virginia Kleker is an Oakland-based artist who creates works that combine aspects of video and performance. Her art often uses mimicry or delusion to focus on issues of disjuncture or pretense. Particularly, she explores the dissonance that occurs between corporeal, psychological, and emotional identity. Kleker earned her BFA from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2000 and received her MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2005. She has shown at the Jack Hanley Gallery and Southern Exposure in San Francisco, and at The Pacific Film Archive, Works/San Jose, and The Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery in the greater Bay Area.