johnknight1986
Education
2013 MFA in Visual Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon
2010 BFA in Sculpture, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2019 Hook and ladder dreams, The Holland Project, Reno, Nevada
The Elements Conspire Against Nature, Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City, Utah
Sin & Sympathy with Royce Allen Hobbs, Tela.Real, Seattle, Washington
2018 Narcotic Flowers, Private Places, Portland, Oregon
Sympathetic Noise, The American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson, Arizona
2017 Identity Value with Matt Morris, Julius Caesar, Chicago, Illinois
Pig, Conduit, Portland, Oregon
2016 No Half Measures, Muscle Beach, Portland, Oregon
Stripe Painting with Rebecca Peel, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
2015 Flamethrowers Predicting Rain with Sidney Cherie Hilley, Pear Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Chicken and the Hog, HQHQ Project Space, Portland, Oregon
2013 The Ridiculized Pigs, H. Klum Fine Art, Portland, Oregon
Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, EXO Project Space, Chicago, Illinois
2012 Meaningless Less Meaning, ΜΕΣ(s)A Project Space, Portland, Oregon
Group Exhibitions
2020 Born To Be Alive, Season, Seattle, Washington
2020 Muffler, curated by Robert Yoder, Tela.Real, San Francisco, California
2019 Waiting Room, curated by Lena Klett and SAND, Playground Arts, Phoenix, Arizona
2018 Companion Pieces, curated by Lydia Rosenberg and Rebecca Steele, Anytime Dept., Cincinnati, Ohio
2018 Fire and Fury, curated by John Dougherty, Resonator Institute Norman, Oklahoma
2017 Object Permanence Project: Future Shadows, curated by Taryn Tomasello, Maryhill Stonehenge, Goldendale, Washington
Minor Threat, 1983, curated by Flynn A. Casey, As It Stands, Los Angeles, California
2015 Group Exhibition, curated by Abby Cornelius Rae, Modern Makers, Ohio
Keep Your Mind in Hell and Despair Not, curated by Chris Smith, The Terraformer, Chicago, Illinois
Peripheral to what? symposium curated by Marz Dietz, project with Carmen Denison, HQHQ Portland, Oregon
2013 Graphic Corollary Set No. 1, curated by Rebecca Peel, Amur-Initiatives, Portland, Oregon
Rebind, curated by Antonia Pinter, Publication Studio, Portland, Oregon
2012 Doubt, curated by Chloe Womack, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
2011 Reducto ad Absurdum, curated by Wyatt Niehaus, Third Party Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Today Show, CS-13, Cincinnati, Ohio
Residencies
2017 Carrizozo Artist in Residency Program, Carrizozo, New Mexico
2014 Rainmaker Artist Residency, Yale Union, Portland, Oregon
2013 New York Arts Practicum, New York City, New York
2013 DIY Printing Studio Residency, Cincinnati, Ohio
Curatorial Projects
THE PINK HOUSE (Jan. 19 1995), curatorial project with Andreas Waris, Bad Reputation, Los Angeles, California | August-October 2018
THE PINK HOUSE (Jan. 19 1995) was a group exhibition with works by Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Luciano Fabro, Ray Johnson, Chadwick Rantenan and Robert Watts. Supported generously by the Kim Klosterman and Michael Lowe Collection, and Bad Reputation:
www.badreputation.co/the-pink-house-jan19-1995.html
Co-director, Williamson Knight Gallery, Portland, Oregon | January 2017-2019
Williamson Knight Gallery is a curatorial project that seeks to equitably give space to emerging women, artists of color, and queer artists, as well as to political activists. Williamson Knight Gallery was a collaboration between Iris Williamson and John Knight:
**in early 2019, the gallery rebranded as HOLDING Contemporary (www.holdingcontemporary.com), as a collaboration between Iris Williamson and Tiffany Harker.
Co-director, Cherry and Lucic Gallery, Portland, Oregon | May 2015-December 2016
Cherry & Lucic was a curatorial project based out of a garage in Northeast Portland, Oregon that aimed to interrogate the qualifications for exhibiting contemporary art. Cherry & Lucic presented mid-career artists in order to return their works to an unstable site that was more consistent with their locations of production. Cherry and Lucic was a collaboration between Eleanor Ford, Kyle Raquipiso and John Knight:
Curator in Residence, DIY Printing Silk Screen Co-op, Cincinnati, Ohio | August 2013-2014
DIY Printing is community printing cooperative that seeks to enrich the lives of artists by providing an open printing studio that supports and encourages the work of participating artists. DIY provides awareness, outreach and education for the community. From 2013-2015 DIY Printing worked in collaboration with Semantics Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Exhibitions included: Whore Island with Alisa Bones; and Who Are You, What Am I Doing Here! with Jodie Cavalier, Linden How, Leif Lee, Jim Papadopoulos, Kyle Raquipiso and Claire Redman:
Co-director, H. Klum Fine Art Portland, Oregon | August 2012-May 2013
H. Klum Fine Art was a project space located in a working-class housing complex in Portland, Oregon. The gallery sought to exhibit emerging artists in a site away from the gallery center of the city, while catering to a non-art audience. H. Klum Fine Art was a collaboration between Lydia Rosenberg and John Knight:
www.lydiarosenberg.net/hklum-fine-art/
johnknight1986
Education
2013 MFA in Visual Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon
2010 BFA in Sculpture, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2019 Hook and ladder dreams, The Holland Project, Reno, Nevada
The Elements Conspire Against Nature, Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City, Utah
Sin & Sympathy with Royce Allen Hobbs, Tela.Real, Seattle, Washington
2018 Narcotic Flowers, Private Places, Portland, Oregon
Sympathetic Noise, The American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson, Arizona
2017 Identity Value with Matt Morris, Julius Caesar, Chicago, Illinois
Pig, Conduit, Portland, Oregon
2016 No Half Measures, Muscle Beach, Portland, Oregon
Stripe Painting with Rebecca Peel, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
2015 Flamethrowers Predicting Rain with Sidney Cherie Hilley, Pear Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Chicken and the Hog, HQHQ Project Space, Portland, Oregon
2013 The Ridiculized Pigs, H. Klum Fine Art, Portland, Oregon
Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, EXO Project Space, Chicago, Illinois
2012 Meaningless Less Meaning, ΜΕΣ(s)A Project Space, Portland, Oregon
Group Exhibitions
2020 Born To Be Alive, Season, Seattle, Washington
2020 Muffler, curated by Robert Yoder, Tela.Real, San Francisco, California
2019 Waiting Room, curated by Lena Klett and SAND, Playground Arts, Phoenix, Arizona
2018 Companion Pieces, curated by Lydia Rosenberg and Rebecca Steele, Anytime Dept., Cincinnati, Ohio
2018 Fire and Fury, curated by John Dougherty, Resonator Institute Norman, Oklahoma
2017 Object Permanence Project: Future Shadows, curated by Taryn Tomasello, Maryhill Stonehenge, Goldendale, Washington
Minor Threat, 1983, curated by Flynn A. Casey, As It Stands, Los Angeles, California
2015 Group Exhibition, curated by Abby Cornelius Rae, Modern Makers, Ohio
Keep Your Mind in Hell and Despair Not, curated by Chris Smith, The Terraformer, Chicago, Illinois
Peripheral to what? symposium curated by Marz Dietz, project with Carmen Denison, HQHQ Portland, Oregon
2013 Graphic Corollary Set No. 1, curated by Rebecca Peel, Amur-Initiatives, Portland, Oregon
Rebind, curated by Antonia Pinter, Publication Studio, Portland, Oregon
2012 Doubt, curated by Chloe Womack, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
2011 Reducto ad Absurdum, curated by Wyatt Niehaus, Third Party Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Today Show, CS-13, Cincinnati, Ohio
Residencies
2017 Carrizozo Artist in Residency Program, Carrizozo, New Mexico
2014 Rainmaker Artist Residency, Yale Union, Portland, Oregon
2013 New York Arts Practicum, New York City, New York
2013 DIY Printing Studio Residency, Cincinnati, Ohio
Curatorial Projects
THE PINK HOUSE (Jan. 19 1995), curatorial project with Andreas Waris, Bad Reputation, Los Angeles, California | August-October 2018
THE PINK HOUSE (Jan. 19 1995) was a group exhibition with works by Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Luciano Fabro, Ray Johnson, Chadwick Rantenan and Robert Watts. Supported generously by the Kim Klosterman and Michael Lowe Collection, and Bad Reputation:
www.badreputation.co/the-pink-house-jan19-1995.html
Co-director, Williamson Knight Gallery, Portland, Oregon | January 2017-2019
Williamson Knight Gallery is a curatorial project that seeks to equitably give space to emerging women, artists of color, and queer artists, as well as to political activists. Williamson Knight Gallery was a collaboration between Iris Williamson and John Knight:
**in early 2019, the gallery rebranded as HOLDING Contemporary (www.holdingcontemporary.com), as a collaboration between Iris Williamson and Tiffany Harker.
Co-director, Cherry and Lucic Gallery, Portland, Oregon | May 2015-December 2016
Cherry & Lucic was a curatorial project based out of a garage in Northeast Portland, Oregon that aimed to interrogate the qualifications for exhibiting contemporary art. Cherry & Lucic presented mid-career artists in order to return their works to an unstable site that was more consistent with their locations of production. Cherry and Lucic was a collaboration between Eleanor Ford, Kyle Raquipiso and John Knight:
Curator in Residence, DIY Printing Silk Screen Co-op, Cincinnati, Ohio | August 2013-2014
DIY Printing is community printing cooperative that seeks to enrich the lives of artists by providing an open printing studio that supports and encourages the work of participating artists. DIY provides awareness, outreach and education for the community. From 2013-2015 DIY Printing worked in collaboration with Semantics Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Exhibitions included: Whore Island with Alisa Bones; and Who Are You, What Am I Doing Here! with Jodie Cavalier, Linden How, Leif Lee, Jim Papadopoulos, Kyle Raquipiso and Claire Redman:
Co-director, H. Klum Fine Art Portland, Oregon | August 2012-May 2013
H. Klum Fine Art was a project space located in a working-class housing complex in Portland, Oregon. The gallery sought to exhibit emerging artists in a site away from the gallery center of the city, while catering to a non-art audience. H. Klum Fine Art was a collaboration between Lydia Rosenberg and John Knight:
www.lydiarosenberg.net/hklum-fine-art/