John Knight

For more than five decades, John Knight has made work that interrogates the built environments in which we live and through which we move. While his work can assume a broad range of forms—such as store-bought objects, found texts, spatial interventions, and new constructions—it is discursive. From one project to the next, Knight prompts the viewer to question a world they may otherwise take for granted.

John Knight was born in 1945 in Hollywood and works in situ. Recent solo exhibitions include the Art Institute of Chicago (2024, 2015); Greene Naftali, New York (2024, 2015, 2011); O-Town House, Los Angeles (2024); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein façade, Berlin (2023); Cabinet, London (2022); The Intermission, Piraeus, Greece (2019); Ordet, Milan (2019); Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan (2019); Établissement d’en face, Brussels (2018); S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (2017); Cultuurcentrum, Strombeek, Belgium (2017); and REDCAT, Los Angeles (2016). His public artworks have been installed at the Art Institute of Chicago (2024); Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (2021); Sculpture Garden, Geneva Biennale (2020); Skulptur Projekte Münster, Germany (2017); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2010); Hamburger Bahnhof—Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (2008); Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY (1998); Stroom, The Hague, Netherlands (1991); FRAC Centre, Orléans, France (1990); and FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, France (1989). He earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine.