Katherine Knight (artist)

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Katherine Knight
Born1955 (1955)
Known forartist, filmmaker, educator

Katherine Knight RCA (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. [1]

Biography

Knight was born in Ottawa, Ontario. [2] Knight completed at Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1980 and a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Victoria in 1984. [3]

In 2006, Katherine Knight and David Craig founded Site Media Inc, which has produced several documentaries about notable Canadian artists such as Annie Pootoogook, Wanda Koop (KOOP: The Art of Wanda Koop), Spring Hurlbut and Arnaud Maggs (Spring & Arnaud), [4] and Colette Urban (Pretend Not to See Me). [5] 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. [6] Her works are included in many public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Banff Centre for the Arts and The Canada Council Art Bank.

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References

  1. "Katherine Knight : Visual Art & Art History". vaah.ampd.yorku.ca. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  2. "Katherine Knight". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  3. "Katherine Knight". ccca.concordia.ca. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  4. "Hot Docs gem Spring & Arnaud blends art with love story: Knelman | Toronto Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  5. "Site Media | Celebrating 10 years of independent Canadian filmmaking". www.sitemedia.ca. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  6. Pat Mullen, "Dear Future Children Wins Audience Award at Hot Docs". Point of View , May 10, 2021.