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Kris Knight is a Toronto-based artist whose work examines performance in relation to the construction, portrayal and boundaries of sexual and asexual identities.Since graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2003, Knight’s practice has concentrated on figurative works that explore various expressions of duality, often dealing with notions of hiding and fronting, ambiguity and androgyny.
His work involves the creation of invented and biographical character-based narratives that attempt to find a balance between the dichotomy of pretty and menace.
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Artist CV
EDUCATION
1999-2003 AOCAD (Honours), Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto.
Major in Drawing and Painting, Minor in Curating and Criticism
1994-1999 OSSA & OAC Diplomas (Honours), Ridgetown District High School
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 How We Quit The Forest, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto Canada
2006 Madame Deficit, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
2006 Pompadour, Dale Smith Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2005 This Hollow, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
2005 I Wanna Be A Pirate Too Baby, Gallery X, Toronto, Canada
2004 Trouble In The Fields, Bus Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004 Beyond Physiognomy (2 Person), Luft Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003 Tales of Kick Ass Tomboys & Their Sissy Boyfriends, Luft Gallery, Toronto,Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRS
2008
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, 31Grand, New York, USA
The Effect of Your Body, MCV/NYC, Brooklyn, USA
Scope New York with Katharine Mulherin, New York, USA
CIRCA Puerto Rico, with Katharine Mulherin, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2007
Littlest Sister, Spinello Gallery, Miami, USA
Aqua Art Fair, Miami, USA
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
Wanted, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
National Portrait Competition, The Kingston Prize 2007, Kingston, Canada
The Armory Show, with Sandroni Rey Gallery, New York, USA
Scope New York with Katharine Mulherin, New York, USA
Minor Melodramas (3 Person), Dale Smith Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
New Year, New Work, Dale Smith Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Scope Basel, Switzerland
Flirtin’ With Disaster, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
Other Moments, (Co-Curator) Gladstone Hotel, Toronto Canada
ArtLA Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA (2005, 2006, 2007)
2006
Art (212) Contemporary Art Fair, New York, USA
Pictures of Girls, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto,Canada
Casey House Hospice Art With Heart (Auction) Carlu, Toronto, Canada (Catalogue)
You Don’t Wanna Miss That Shit, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Results of the Headhunt, Headbones Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Scope Art Fair, Miami, USA
Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
2005
The Chamber (Curator: Kelly McCray) Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
In-Sex 2, Spin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
As Good As It Gets, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Night of a 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, U.S.A (2004, 2005)
ArtLA, Los Angeles Art Fair For Contemporary & New Art, Los Angeles, USA
Triple X (Traveling Exhibition), Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto, Thunder Bay ArtGallery, Thunder Bay, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, U.S.A
TAAFI, Toronto, Canada
AWARDS
2008 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2006 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2006 Toronto Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2003 Graduate Award: OCAD President’s Medallion for Drawing & Painting
Nora E. Vaughan Award, OCAD, Toronto, Canada
David L. Stevenson Scholarship, OCAD, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Eye Weekly, “The Year in Art” David Balzer, December 27, 2007
Xtra Magazine, “The Forest” Sholem Krishtalka, December 20, 2007
Toronto Life Magazine, “Kris Knight at Katharine Mulherin”, David Balzer, December 2007
The/End Magazine, “Kris Knight”, Alex Vaccani Vol 1, No 5, Autumn 2007
Capital Xtra Magazine, “Editor’s Pick” April, 5, 2007
Descant Magazine, Fashion Issue, Vol 38, No 3, Autumn 2007
enRoute Magazine, ‘Art Goes Boom” Issue, August 2007
NOW Magazine, Fine Moments, Bjarke Madsen, February 15, 2007
NOW Magazine, Ado About Dos, David Jager, July 7, 2006
NOW Magazine Knight Moves, David Jager, June 8, 2006
The Ottawa Citizen Viva La Revolution, Paul Gessel, March 2, 2006
CBC Television Art and Soul, Zed TV Episode #57 January 11, 2005
Descant Magazine Love(s) That Dare(s) (Not), Cover & Portfolio, Guest Edited by Camilla Gibb,
Vol 35, No 3 Autumn 2004
Artery Magazine Beyond Physiognomy-Kris Knight, Tammer El-Sheikh, Autumn 2004
CBC Television An Introduction to The Work of Kris Knight, Zed Episode #81 Feb 20,2004
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