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KARLA KNIGHT
b. 1958, New York City
Lives and works in Connecticut
email: karla.knight@att.net
website: www.karlaknight.org
EDUCATION
1980 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
1980 RISD European Honors Program, Rome, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS*
2010 Artspace, New Haven, CT
2004 “Pondering the Marvelous,” Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY*
1990 Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
1987 Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
1986 Dart Gallery, Chicago
1981 William Francis Gallery, Providence, RI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Momenta Art Benefit, Brooklyn, NY
"This Crystal Age: Contemporary Works of Fantasy" (location tba), Los Angeles, CA (Jeff Gauntt and Nils Schirrmacher, curators)
2011 "Drawing and Illustration," Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art, Marywood University, Scranton, PA
2010 "All Things Being Equal," Raritan Valley Community College, Bridgewater, NJ. (Tiffany Calvert, curator)
"Power to the People," Feature, Inc., New York, NY
2009 "FIVE DECADES OF PASSION Part Two: The Founding of the Center, 1989-1991," Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
White Columns, New York. Work instated in Curated Artist Registry.
"Contemporary Women Artists: Work on Paper," Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art, Marywood University, Scranton, PA
2008 Pierogi Flatfiles, "Desire," Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
"Worlds Away," Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism Gallery, Hartford, CT
2007 “Paper,” Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
Pierogi. Flatfiling, Artnews Projects. Berlin, Germany
2006 Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, New York. Work instated in flat file.
“Statements and Symbols: Selected Paintings and Prints from the Maslow Collection, Marywood University Suraci Gallery, Scranton, PA
2002 "40 by 40," Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York
2001 “Double Visions,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York
2000 “Quirky,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York
"Ambiguity: Layers of Information," Contemporary Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, PA
1998 “Imaginary Friend,” Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York (Nayland Blake, curator)
1997 “Invitational,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York
1995 “Selections,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York
1993 “The Return of the Cadavre Exquis,” Drawing Center, New York
1991 “New Works on Paper,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1990 “Art Against AIDS,” Washington, DC
Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
1989 “Group Show,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Fawbush Gallery, New York
1988 “Works on Paper,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
Dart Gallery, Chicago
“The Power of Drawings,” Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago
1987 “Group Painting Exhibition, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
“Art Against AIDS,” Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
1986 “Painting the Object,” Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
1985 “Real Surreal,” Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
1980 European Honors Thesis Show, RISD, Palazzo-Cenci, Rome, Italy
Two-person exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 New Haven Advocate, "Knowing and Forgetting," Geoffrey Detrani, April 5, 2010
2004 The New York Times, “You and Them!” October 31, Arts and Leisure
2004 Wave Hill News, Autumn 2004
2004 The Riverdale Press, “Natural Notions,” September 23
1991 Brooklyn Museum Newsletter, Summer 1991
1989 Dorsey, John. "Works by Emerging Artists," Baltimore Sun, February 1989
1988 Cohrs, Timothy. “Karla Knight,” Arts, January
1987 Cameron, Dan. "Opening Salvos, Part One," Arts, December
1986 Cohrs, Timothy. “Group Show,” Arts, February
Bomb, Spring 1986, pp. 32, 33. Photo repro.
Saltz, Jerry. Beyond Boundaries, New York’s New Art, essays by Roberta Smith and Peter Halley, p. 83. Alfred van der Marck Editions
COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Brooklyn Museum
Walker Art Center
Emily Fisher Landau
Werner Kramarsky
Maslow Collection
Chase Manhattan Bank
Prudential, Inc.
Tamayo Museum, Mexico City
Hart-Abrams, Inc.
McCrory Corporation
AWARDS and HONORS
2006 Fellowship, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Hartford, CT
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