Autumn Knight

Autumn Knight is a New York-based, Texas-born interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video, sound, and text. Drawing from her training in theater, group dynamics, and psychology, Knight makes performances that reshape power structures and upend audience expectations of live experiences. Her performance work has been on view at various institutions, including Human Resources, Los Angeles; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Shedhalle, Zurich; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, OR; The Kitchen, New York; Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Museum Ostwall, Dortmund; Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY; Performance Space New York, NY; and REDCAT, Los Angeles. Her performance work, WALL, is the first live performance work acquired to the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Knight is the recipient of various awards, grants, honors, and fellowships, including an Art Matters Grant, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Art, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.


Events

Creative Exchange Lab: Meet The ArtistsTBA:18 Autumn Knight SANITY TVTBA:18 CONVERSATION: Autumn Knight, Tim Smith-Stewart, Mariana Valencia, JI YAng with Kristan KennedyNOTHING#15: a barJavaad Alipoor and Autumn Knight In ConversationAutumn Knight: Visiting Artist Lecture at PNCANOTHING #15: a bed NOTHING: all at onceNOTHING#15: a bluff