Born / lives / works Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2015 Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Riverside
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute
SELECT EXHIBITIONS (* denotes solo or two-person exhibition)
2019
Close to Home, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
Shadow and Shadow of Shadow, Roger’s Office, Los Angeles, CA*
In the Sunshine of Neglect: Defining Photographs and Radical Experiments in Inland Southern California, 1950 to Present, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
2018
Turn Into, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA*
...if water forgets how to play mirror, Queens, Los Angeles, CA*
Monotasking, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA
2017
A Spaghetti Dress for world Peace, Park View/Paul Soto, Los Angeles, CA
Facing, BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA
La Mesa Brutal, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA
2016
The Upper Deep, Open House, Los Angeles, CA
9-11, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Russian Doll, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
Surface of Color, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
20/20, Christophe Guye (Selection of Grupa o.k.), Zurich, Switzlerland
The Year of the Goose, Either Way, Los Angeles, CA
He's Time. I'm Just a Clock., Strongroom, Los Angeles, CA*
Objects & Actions of Consequence (MFA Thesis), Culver Center for the Arts, Riverside, CA*
2013
Dressed in Gray, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Greater Los Angeles MFA, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2011
California Continued: New Approaches in West Coast Photography, Smith Andersen North, San Rafael, CA
2010
Gray Day, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
The Informers, J-MoCA, Los Angeles, CA
Icons & Allegories, Sight School, Oakland, CA
The Lightbearers, POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
10x10x10, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
Involved, Socially, Triple Base, San Francisco, CA
2008
Young Curators, New Ideas, Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Various Photographs, Curated by Tim Barber, The New York Photo Festival, New York, NY
2007
Many Meanings are Attached to Mountains, Iceberger, San Francisco, CA*
TinyVices, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri
PUBLICATIONS
In the Sunshine of Neglect: Defining Photographs & Radical Experiments in Inland Southern California 1950 - Present, Riverside, CA: Inlandia Institute, 2019
NOUNS, Los Angeles, CA: Bread & Butter, 2017
Pescador, Paul. Surface of Color, Los Angeles, CA: The Pit, 2015.
Myers-Szupinska, Julian & Szupinska-Myers, Joanna. 20/20 (Exhibition Catalog), Zurich, Switzlerland: Sturm & Drang, 2015.
Smoke Bath, New York, NY: Seems Books, 2010
Icons & Allegories, Los Angeles, CA: Bread & Butter Books, 2010
Involved, Socially, San Francisco, CA: Triple Base, 2009
Various Photographs, New York, NY: TV Books, 2008
Vol. 1, Remain in Light, Cambridge, MA: Lay Flat, 2008
GRANTS & AWARDS
2019 Light Work Artist in Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2018 BarFund, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Artist in residence, Storm King Art Center / Shandaken Projects, New York, NY
2016 Echo Park Film Center, Artist Commission, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Lois Roth Endowment
2008 Fulbright Scholar, Helsinki, Finland
CURATORIAL
2015 FLASH! (September), The California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA.
2010 Icons & Allegories, Sight School, Oakland, CA.
PRESS, RADIO, TEXT
Feinstein, Jon. “Review: Mark McKnight at James Harris Gallery,” Photograph Magazine, November/December, 2018
“Mark McKnight: Turn Into, Paul Berger: Multiplex, and more,” City Arts Magazine, Seattle, Washington, 2018
“Photography Highlights…Seattle Art Fair,” Humble Arts Foundation, New York, 2018
Cameron, Andrew. “Mark McKnight: Object Permanence,” (Supplementary exhibition text), James Harris Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2018
Adams, Thomas. "Episode 19: Mark McKnight", Art Traffic, Online (Audio Interview), 2018
Darling, Nikki. "Shadow Boxing Mark McKnight" (Supplementary exhibition text), QUEENS, Los Angeles, 2018
Myers-Szupinska, Julian & Szupinska-Myers, Joanna. "20/20: Mark McKnight" (Exhibition catalog text), Sturm & Drang, Zurich, Switzlerland, 2015
Pescador, Paul. "Surface of Color: Mark McKnight" (Exhibition catalog text), The Pit, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
“Forging Queer Identity with Abstraction,” Ahn, Abe. HyperAllergic. October 19, 2015
“Artists meld life and art.” SFGate. August 20, 2009
TEACHING
Chaffey College, 2018 - 19
New York Film Academy, 2016
UC Riverside, 2013 - 15
Art Institute of Las Vegas, 2011 - 12
LECTURES + VISITING ARTIST TALKS
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA 2019
USC, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
San Francisco Art Institute, 2018
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, 2014
UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, 2013
Pitzer College, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2013
Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010
University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 2009
PhotoAlliance at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2009