John Knight (artist)

John Knight (born 1945 in Hollywood, California) is a conceptual artist in Los Angeles, California who works in situ.^[1] Since the 1960s, Knight has made works grounded in site-specificity and institutional critique, works that interrogate underlying economic systems.^[2]

The Right to be Lazy, Hamburger Bahnhof

Exhibitions

Solo

• John Knight – Enkele Werken, formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (1990).
• Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, Castellón (2008).
• John Knight, Autotypes, A Work in Situ, Greene Naftali (2011)
• Portikus, Frankfurt (2013)
• Cabinet Gallery at Fitzpatrick-Leland House, Los Angeles (2014)
• Art Institute of Chicago (2015)
• John Knight, A Work in Situ, Ground Floor, Greene Naftali (2015)
• John Knight, A work in situ, Redcat, Los Angeles (2016)^[3]
• John Knight, Vacant Possession, Cabinet, London (2016)^[4]

Group

• Whitney Biennial,^[5] Whitney Museum, New York (2012)

Publications

• John Knight, Cold Cuts, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, Castellón (2009)
• John Knight, Autotypes, Greene Naftali (2011)
• John Knight, Quiet Quality, Cabinet Gallery (2013)
• John Knight (October Files), MIT Press, Cambridge (2014)