KRIS KNIGHT
Born in 1980, Windsor, Canada. Lives and works in Toronto, Canada
EDUCATION
2003 AOCAD, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 When The Sun Hits, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
2024 Superhost, Spinello Projects, Miami, USA
2020 Auscultate, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal, Canada
2019 A Little Time Out, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
2016 Throwing Shadows, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
2015 Never-Never, Mulherin, Toronto, Canada
2014 Smell The Magic, Spinello Projects, Miami, USA
2013 Secrets Are The Things We Grow, Mulherin + Pollard, New York, USA
2011 Tragic Kingdom, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
2010 A Deadly Nightshade, Spinello Gallery, Miami, USA
2009 Farewell Log Cabin, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
2008 So Long Scarecrow, Spinello Gallery, Miami, USA
2007 How We Quit The Forest, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects,
Toronto, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRS
2024 A Portrait of the Artist (Pool with Two Figures), Cob. Gallery, London, UK
Echoes of Paradise, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, USA
Paréidolie with Galerie Alain Gutharc, Marseille, France (*Awarded the 2024
Pébéo Drawing Award)
Art Basel Miami Beach with GAVLAK, Miami, USA
2023 My Velvet Shadow, CLAMP, New York, USA
Unputdownable, MOUNTAINS, Berlin, Germany
A Sympathy of Untold Depths, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal, Canada
Mon Beau Miroir, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
2022 Come Out + Play, Beers London, London, UK
XX, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, USA
The Own In The Foreign, Museum Bensheim, Benshiem, Germany
2021 Vase, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
Art Paris with Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris France
2019 Male, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany
A Portrait Show, VIVIANART, Calgary, Canada
As I Like, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
2018 Drawings, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Drawing Now with Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
Quoetus Floreus, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal, Canada
2017 O! Watt Up, Foundation National des Arts et Plastiques/MABA, Paris, France
Spring Break Art Fair with Mulherin NY, New York, USA
Art Toronto, Solo Project with Mulherin NY, Toronto, Canada
2016 Sea, Sex and Sun, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
YIA Art Fair with Galerie Alain Gutharc, Brussels, Belgium
Homecoming, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Canada
2015 Full Moon, Spinello Projects, Miami, USA
The Language of Flowers, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
2014 Lumières: Carte Blanche à Christian Lacroix, curated by Christain Lacroix
Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris, France (Catalogue)
FIAC with Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
Guest Star, Mulherin + Pollard, New York, USA
SHAPESHIFTING : Contemporary Masculinities, College of Wooster Art
Museum, Wooster, USA
2013 Blue Gaze, Volta NY with Mulherin, New York, USA
10th Anniversary Show, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Secrets, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany
CART Apartment, New York, USA
2012 13, Mulherin + Pollard, New York, USA
The Armory Show, with Katharine Mulherin, New York, USA
2010 The Reflexive Self, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA
Zona Maco, Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, with Spinello Gallery, Mexico City,
Mexico
The Road Less Travelled, KMLA, Los Angeles, USA
2009 New/Now, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, USA
2008 Sexy Time, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, USA
Pulse, Miami with Spinello Gallery
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, 31Grand, New York, USA
The Effect of Your Body, MCV/NYC, Brooklyn, USA
CIRCA Puerto Rico, with Katharine Mulherin, San Juan, Puerto Rico
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2017 Maison d’art Bernard-Anthonioz (MABA), Nogent-sur-Marne, France
AWARDS
2022 Canada Council Research and Creation Grant
2019 Canada Council For The Arts Artist Grant
2018 Ontario Arts Council Mid Career Artist Grant
2014 Ontario Arts Council Mid Career Artist Grant
2014 Toronto Arts Council Mid Career Artist Grant
2011 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2011 Toronto Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2008 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2006 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2006 Toronto Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2003 Graduate Award: OCAD President’s Medallion for Drawing & Painting
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
King Kong Magazine, Kris Knight: A Soft Touch, Mikel Benhaim, Autumn/Winter 2018
Art Maze Magazine, Kris Knight (Cover), Christina Nafziger, Summer Issue, 2017
BOYCOTT Magazine, Kris Knight, Ariel Kenig, Spring/Summer, 2016
The Walrus, Pretty Boys, Sasha Chapin, May 2016
L’Officiel Hommes Türkiye, Pastel Erotika, Günes Uysalefe, Sayi 9, Ilkbahar 2016
German Art, Jäger und Gejagte Claudia Bodin, January, 2016
L’Officiel Hommes NL Milde Rebelle, Door Kaira van Wijk, No. 9, lente/zomer 2015
Harper’s Bazaar Art, Kris Knight, (Cover) April 2015
Interview Magazine, Kris Knight by Frida Giannini, December/January 2015
GAYLETTER, Kris Knight in Full Bloom, Patrick Sweeney, Issue 02, 2015
Miami New Times, The Magic of Kris Knight, Jose D. Duran, December 1, 2014
The Globe and Mail, Kris Knight, Samra Habib, October 3, 2014
C★NDY, Kris Knight, Juan-Dario Gomez, Issue 7, Winter 2013/14
Fashion For Men, Kris Knight - Blue Eyes Pier Mario Simula, (Cover Story), Issue 02,
Winter 2012/Spring 2013
Public Art Magazine, Kris Knight (Cover), Issue #66, March 2012
Miami New Times, Refugees From Reality July 16, 2010
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Royal Bank of Canada, Canada
The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, USA
The Oppenheimer Collection, USA
21c Museum of Contemporary Art, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, New York, USA
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
The Art Gallery of Woodstock, Canada
The Thames Gallery, Canada
Gucci S.p.A, Florence, Italy