Katherine Knight (artist)
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Katherine Knight (born 1955) is a Canadian artist and documentary film director whose artistic practice considers the relationships between landscape and personal experiences of time and place. In addition to her artistic practice, Katherine Knight teaches in the Visual Art Department at
York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...
.


Biography

Knight was born in
Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...
,
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. Knight completed at Bachelor of Fine Arts at the
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design NSCAD University, also known as the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design or NSCAD, is a public art university in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university is a co-educational institution that offers bachelor's and master's degrees. The uni ...
in 1980 and a Master of Fine Arts at the
University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary instit ...
in 1984. In 2006, Katherine Knight and David Craig founded Site Media Inc, which has produced several documentaries about notable Canadian artists such as
Annie Pootoogook Annie Pootoogook (May 11, 1969 – September 19, 2016) was a Canadian Inuk artist known for her pen and coloured pencil drawings. In her art, Pootoogook often portrayed the experiences of those in her community of Kinngait (then known in English a ...
,
Wanda Koop Wanda Koop is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Life Koop was born on November 5, 1951 in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Russian Mennonite parents who had escaped the Russian Revolution. Koop gradua ...
(''KOOP: The Art of Wanda Koop''), Spring Hurlbut and
Arnaud Maggs Arnaud Maggs (May 5, 1926 – November 17, 2012) was a Canadian artist and photographer. Born in Montreal, Maggs is best known for stark portraits arranged in grid-like arrangements, which illustrate his interest in systems of identification and c ...
(Spring & Arnaud), and Colette Urban (''Pretend Not to See Me)''. In 2021 she released the documentary film '' Still Max'', a documentary film about artist Max Dean which was one of the Rogers Audience Award winners at the 2021
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is the largest documentary festival in North America. The event takes place annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The 27th edition of the festival took place online throughout May and June ...
.Pat Mullen
"Dear Future Children Wins Audience Award at Hot Docs"
''
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'', May 10, 2021.
Her works are included in many public collections, including the
National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada (french: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum. The museum's building takes up , with of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the l ...
, the
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP) (french: Le Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine (MCPC)) was a gallery of Canadian contemporary art and documentary photography. Founded in 1985 and affiliated to the National Galle ...
,
Banff Centre for the Arts Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, formerly known as The Banff Centre (and previously The Banff Centre for Continuing Education), located in Banff, Alberta, was established in 1933 as the Banff School of Drama. It was granted full autonomy as ...
and The Canada Council Art Bank.


References

1955 births Living people Artists from Ottawa Canadian documentary film directors Film directors from Ottawa NSCAD University alumni University of Victoria alumni Canadian women documentary filmmakers 20th-century Canadian artists 21st-century Canadian artists 20th-century Canadian women artists 21st-century Canadian women artists Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Academic staff of York University {{canada-artist-stub