Audain Distinguished Artist in Residence: Autumn Knight

Marking the return of the Audain Distinguished Artist in Residence program, we’re delighted to welcome interdisciplinary artist Autumn Knight to Vancouver this Fall. Known internationally for her performance works, Knight has exhibited at venues such as the Whitney Biennial, The New Museum (New York), Akademie der Kunst (Berlin), Project Row Houses (Houston), The Western Front (Vancouver). Her practice has in recent years explored group dynamics and psychologies, placing Black women’s subjectivities, humour and analysis at the centre of commentary on institutions, authority, power and play.

Knight’s residency will focus on the publication as an extension of her practice, and the translation of performance and documentation into sound recording, text and printed matter. Engaging with the university community and the public will be an integral part of the artist’s time here, and the residency will include studio visits, the presentation of a public talk and a performance-in-development.

Autumn Knight is a New York based interdisciplinary artist working with performance, video, sound and text. Her work has been on view at various institutions including Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) Shedhalle (Zurich), The Whitney Museum of American Art, PICA (Portland Institute of Contemporary Art) The Kitchen, MCA Chicago, Museum Ostwall (Germany) BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Performance Space New York, REDCAT (LA). She has worked across Canada with FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto), Optica (Montreal), and SAW Video Media Arts Centre (Ottawa) and The Western Front (Vancouver).  Her performance work, WALL, is the first live performance work acquired for the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Knight is the recipient of various awards, grants, honors and fellowships including Art Matters Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, Anonymous Was a Woman, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Art, and a Guggenheim Fellowship and most recently the Trellis Art Fund.

The Audain Distinguished Artist in Residence program has been hosted by the Libby Leshgold Gallery and Emily Carr University since 2013. The program brings internationally renowned artists to Vancouver to support engagement with local communities and the creation of new works. Operating at the interstices of the teaching and learning environment, the gallery and the studio, the residency encourages experimentation, collaboration and meaningful international exchange.

Events Artist Talk
October 30, 6pm
Reliance Theatre
Emily Carr University of Art + Design Performance
November 22, 6pm
Libby Leshgold Gallery
Emily Carr University of Art + Design