John Knight (born 1945 in
Hollywood, California
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) is a
conceptual art
Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called insta ...
ist in
Los Angeles, California
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who works in situ. Since the 1960s, Knight has made pioneering works grounded in site-specificity and institutional critique, works that interrogate underlying economic systems.
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)
* John Knight, Vacant Possession, Cabinet, London (2016)
Group
* Whitney Biennial,
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)
References
External links
Greene Naftali
1945 births
Living people
American conceptual artists
Artists from Los Angeles
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