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jknight@pnca.edu

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https://www.journal.fyi/john-knight-final-hot-desert

http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2019/09/john-knight-at-final-hot-desert/

http://sapcitee.org/the-elements-conspire-against-nature

https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Exhibition-Imaginaries-and-the-Expanded-Senses-No-4-12537.html

https://www.aqnb.com/2016/08/02/concerning-mc-emerging-artist/

https://www.orartswatch.org/meaningless-less-meaning-new-work-by-john-knight/

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John Knight

b. 1986

 

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   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

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: 

www.williamsonknight.com

**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: 

www.cherryandlucic.com

 

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:

www.diyprintingshop.com

 

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/ 
























jknight@pnca.edu

---

https://www.journal.fyi/john-knight-final-hot-desert

http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2019/09/john-knight-at-final-hot-desert/

http://sapcitee.org/the-elements-conspire-against-nature

https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Exhibition-Imaginaries-and-the-Expanded-Senses-No-4-12537.html

https://www.aqnb.com/2016/08/02/concerning-mc-emerging-artist/

https://www.orartswatch.org/meaningless-less-meaning-new-work-by-john-knight/

---

John Knight

b. 1986

 

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   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

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: 

www.williamsonknight.com

**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: 

www.cherryandlucic.com

 

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:

www.diyprintingshop.com

 

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/