Courtney Knight (b. 1991, Spokane, WA) studied Illustration in Boston, MA and is currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Lately she tends to explore topics of playfulness, movement, nostalgia, and intimacy. A chronic daydreamer and narrative driven, always, her first love is drawing by suspending a moment of time from her overactive imagination and now playing with clay and oil in the same way.
let’s work together:
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Courtney Knight (b. 1991)
Based in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2014
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
A Fence of Lightness, Sweet Columns of Joy, Nil, Portland, OR
2023
You, Me, and the Sea, McCarren Parkhouse, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Sugar, Never Coffee, Portland, OR
2021
Is there a vessel for me? Valley Studios, Portland, OR
2019
Pooling, Laurs Kemp shop, Portland, OR
Network Connectivity, Carnelian Cafe, Portland, OR
All My Glove, Ps and Qs market, Portland, OR
2018
Untitled P’s and Q’s market, Portland, OR
2017
The Hanging, Oyster Gallery, PNCA, Portland, OR
Drowning Anxieties, Ristretto Roasters, Portland, OR
Paper house no pressure, Greyhouse Gallery, Portland, OR
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Wax: The LP Show, A Sometimes Gallery, Portland, OR
Summer Feeling, Court Tree Collective, Brooklyn, NY
No Receipt, Tribeca, NYC
2023
Mind Song, Chefas Projects, Portland, OR
2022
Fisk and Friends, Fisk Gallery, Portland, OR
2020
20/20, Womxn House Gallery, Portland, OR
INTERWOVEN: an outside art show set in a field of kiwi vines, Portland, OR
Roux Poster Show, Roux, Portland, OR
2018
Triad Exhibition, Grapefruits Gallery, Portland, OR
Cease Fire charity event, Outwork Project, Portland, OR
Flora, Land Gallery, Portland, OR
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022
Wearables Workshop at Caravan Collective, Portland, OR
2016
Memory Map Workshop at Have Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Make the Perfect Wallet Workshop, Portland, OR
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2021
Make/Build/Learn Grant by RACC
2020
Object Limited Residency, Bisbee, AZ
2019
Residency in Vashon Island, WA
2017
Residency in Mirano, Italy
Shamble Manor Residency, Portland, OR
2016
Have Company Residency, Grand Rapids, Michigan