AUTUMN KNIGHT
New York, NY
EDUCATION
2016 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2010 M.A. Drama Therapy, New York University, New York, NY
2003 B.A.-Theatre Arts/Speech Communications/Dillard University, New Orleans, LA
2002 Certificate- Arts Management & Marketing, University of London, England
SOLO EXHIBITION/PERFORMANCE WORK
2019 Yes + No: Cult, Human Resources LA, Los Angeles, CA
2018 M_ _ _ ER, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
2018 Untitled, Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, TX
2017 In Rehearsal, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
2015 She Think She Kawaii, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2015 Latencies with Chelsea Knight, Skowhegan, NY, NY
2015 Latencies with Chelsea Knight, New Museum, NY, NY
2014 GYN, Fresh Arts, Houston, TX
2014 WALL, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2012-2013 Futz: A Research Method, Project Row Houses, and Houston, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCE
2019 Can I Drink the Distance (Torkwase Dyson), Pace Live, NY
2019 Whitney Biennial
2019 Documents, Progress Festival, Toronto, Canada
2018 Sanity TV, PICA TBA Festival, Portland, OR
2018 Manifest with Chelsea Knight, Pioneer Works, NY
2018 Declaration,Institute for Contemporary Art, VCU, VA
2017 We Go As They, Studio Museum in Harlem AIR Exhibition, NY
2017 I’ve Only Known My Own, Optica Centre for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
2017 The Poetry Project, NY
2017 Say Her Name, Art League Houston, Houston, TX
2016 New Cities Future Ruins, La-a Consortium, Dallas, TX
2016 Chale Wote Festival, Accra, Ghana
2016 I’ve Only Known My Own, Flex Space Houston, TX
2015/2016 Island Time, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX
2015 Keep Some Sunshine on Your Face, She Works Flexible, Houston, TX
2015 Latencies with Chelsea Knight, Project Row Houses + Diverseworks, Houston, TX
2014 Afronaut(a) Film/Performance Series, Kelly-Strayhorn Theatre, Pittsburg, PA
2014 State of the Art, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AK
2014 Box 13 Arts Space, Houston, TX
2014 Galveston Artist Residency AIR Exhibition, Galveston, TX
2014 Lone Star Explosion: Houston International Performance Biennale, Houston, TX
2014 Antena, Blaffer Museum, Houston, TX
2014 Ghost of Rauschenberg, Galveston Artists Residency, Galveston, TX
2013 I AM HIM, The Community Artists' Collective, Houston, TX
2013 do it: Houston, Alabama Song Art Space, Houston, TX
2013 Coming Through The Gap in the Mountain on an Elephant, Houston, TX
2012-2013 Project Row Houses Round 37, Houston, TX
2012-2013 STACKS, Art League Houston, TX
AWARDS/GRANTS
2022 Guggenheim Fellowship
2021-2022 Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Arts
2019 Rema Hort Mann Foundation
2018 Art Matters
2017 William H. Johnson Prize Finalist
2017 National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Award
2015 Artadia Award
2014 The Idea Fund Grant, TX
2006 Theatre Communications Group New Generations Fellowship
RESIDENCIES
2019 Headlands Center for the Arts
2019 Triangle Art Association
2018 Pioneer Works
2018 The MacDowell Colony (with Chelsea Knight)
2017 Denniston Hill (NY)
2016-2017 Studio Museum in Harlem
2015-2016 Dance Source Houston
2015 Yamaguchi Institute of Contemporary Art (YICA), Yamaguchi, Japan
2015 Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2014 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
2014 In-Situ-In-Place, Pendle, England
2013-2014 Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2012 Taller Portobelo Norte, Panama City, Panama
VISITING LECTURER/GUEST ARTIST:
UC Berkeley (BAMFA)
CCA California College of the Arts
Rutgers University
Princeton University
UC Riverside