SOLO EXHIBITION: WHEN THE SUN HITS @ GALERIE ALAIN GUTHARC, PARIS

Kris Knight "Rippling" oil on canvas, 18x14" 2024


Galerie Alain Gutharc is pleased to present When The Sun Hits, a solo show of new paintings by Canadian artist Kris Knight, October 12th - November 16th, 2024.  Opening Reception is Saturday, October 12th, 6-8PM.   

For his third exhibition with the gallery, Knight continues to construct scenes of glimpsed beauty, slow-burn longing and quiet in-between moments that define his queer experience. His sensitive portraits and figurative works portray his friends and acquaintances in solitary contemplation, longstanding relationships and mildly elegiac scenes of leisure and selfcare. He imbues his contemporary subject matter with historical art references and colour palettes in both natural and domestic settings. 

When The Sun Hits is the second part of a body of work that references notions of Victorian wellness that the artist started during the pandemic lockdown – the first exhibition referenced European garden portraiture that was created during the height of Tuberculosis, the second part moves locations from the garden to the shore, referencing the medical fad of “sea cure”: the sun, air and sea trifecta that was promoted by 18th-century doctors as a “cure all” for all ailments. Knight’s subjects escape the noise and heaviness of contemporary life for the tranquility of the sea, finding ecstasy in quietness and the freedom in simplicity. However, the delicate calm of his paintings is often shadowed by a layer of introspective dread humming in the background of all of his work. With this series Knight presents an elegant, intimate world dominated by lyrical mood, desire and subtle melancholy. 

For more information please contact Galerie Alain Gutharc at contact@alaingutharc.com

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GROUP EXHIBITION: ECHOES OF PARADISE @ JANE LOMBARD GALLERY, NEW YORK



ECHOES OF PARADISE

CURATED BY ALEJANDRO JASSAN

Jane Lombard Gallery, New York 

June 28th - August 16th, 2024

Opening Reception: Friday, June 28th, 6 - 8 PM

Manuela Benaim, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Kadar Brock, Deborah Brown, Henri Paul Broyard, Geoffrey Chadsey, Kyle Coniglio, Cynthia Daignault, TM Davy, Benjamin Edmiston, Hank Ehrenfried, Evan Halter, Matthew Hansel, Andrew Holmquist, Kris Knight, Karolina Maszkiewicz, Kristin McIver, Alicia Reyes McNamara, Azita Moradkhani, John T.D. Murphy, Dominic Musa, T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Chase Palmer, Jan Rattia, Kathy Sirico, Eva Struble, Xiao Wang

Jane Lombard Gallery presents Echoes of Paradise, a group exhibition curated by Alejandro Jassan. Echoes of Paradise explores the multifaceted significance of the Garden of Eden through the lenses of nature, art history, cultural assimilation, gender identity, and forbidden pleasures. 

Echoes of Paradise deconstructs the myth of the Garden of Eden, highlighting how its themes have permeated art and culture across generations and geographies. Throughout art history, the symbols and language of the paradise have been endlessly replicated and reinterpreted. Edenic symbols serve as a bridge between the past and present, revealing the dynamic interplay between historical and modern perspectives. Echoes of Paradise brings this dialogue to the forefront, showcasing how the Genesis narrative has been adapted to reflect varying cultural, social, and artistic milieus. Furthermore, the exhibition sheds light on cultural assimilation and power dynamics, all the while examining how the myth has been integrated and transformed within different societies.

Providing a rich tapestry of visual narratives that reflect humanity's enduring fascination with this primordial story, the exhibition is foregrounded in familiar Edenic emblems-- from representations of the archetypal figures of Adam and Eve to lush landscapes enveloped in flora and fauna. The exhibition also explores the concept of repetition, both symbolically and formally, as a means of illustrating how this myth has echoed through time, morphing across cultures and contexts, evolving yet retaining its core. Through recurring motifs and repetitive brushstrokes, the artists collectively signal the continuous adaptation of this narrative and its impact on collective memory and cultural identity.

Looking to the human body, queer narratives, and feminist viewpoints, Echoes of Paradise challenges traditional gender norms. Disrupting the patriarchal gaze, these works reimagine Eden from perspectives of intimacy, ones that particularly seek to upend stereotypical depictions of gender. Addressing gaps in traditional narratives, the works play with aspects of masculinity, fragility, and tenderness, creating space for alternative perspectives on the human experience as well as critically investigating what inclusivity means from a 21st century vantage point. 

Echoes of Paradise invites viewers to reconsider their consumption of imagery, symbols, and narratives. The exhibition not only enriches our understanding of art history but also challenges conventional gender roles, encouraging inclusivity as the approach to storytelling. Together, the artists in this exhibition create a vivid portrayal of paradise as a multifaceted, interconnected, and emotionally resonant place, one that has expanded to include voices and experiences historically excluded from the dialogue.


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SOLO EXHIBITION: SUPERHOST @ SPINELLO PROJECTS, MIAMI

Kris Knight "Get Together" oil on canvas, 48x36" 2023


Superhost - New Paintings by Kris Knight 

February 10 - March 16, 2024 @ Spinello Projects, Miami 

Opening: Saturday, February 10, 6 - 9 pm

Free & open to the public

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Spinello Projects is proud to present Superhost by Canadian artist, Kris Knight, debuting a series of figurative paintings inspired by the historical notion of urban exodus during an epidemic. These paintings present light-drenched emotional portals of the past and present, where mundane queer moments have impact without being sensationalized. This is Knight’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. 

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Superhost is Knight’s pandemic garden series, inspired by the similarities of Victorian wellness during the tuberculosis pandemic of the 18th and 19th centuries and the connective social patterns to that of COVID19. These paintings return to the idea of being alone in the sense of wholeness: alone as in “all one.” Knight’s characters retreat from the muchness of their urban worlds for the stillness of gardens, country homes and rural Airbnbs. He cites his contemporary characters in bucolic locations referencing historical Victorian and Belle Époque garden paintings and expands his pastel palette to include the vivid, acidic greens that were popular during this era.

For more information, please contact Spinello Projects.  

Kris Knight would like to thank Canada Council For The Arts for their support with this series.  


Press:

"Must-See Miami Art Exhibitions in February" - Miami New Times 

"New and exciting in Miami’s art scene: 3 must-see exhibitions" - The Miami Hurricane 

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GROUP EXHIBITION: MY VELVET SHADOW @ CLAMP NEW YORK


Green Glow, oil on canvas, 20x16" 2019


My Velvet Shadow  May 11th - June 30th featuring the works of John Brooks, Anthony Goicolea and Kris Knight.  Opening reception is Thursday May 11th, 6-8pm. 

The exhibition “My Velvet Shadow” presents three Gen X painters— John Brooks, Anthony Goicolea, and Kris Knight—whose work exemplifies queer time and queer style. These artists came of age with the residual fear that sex, intimacy, and love could likely lead to death. Their work incorporates anachronistic coded language and cross-cultural signifiers. It neither takes on the mantle of radical sexuality as activism prominent in 1980s predecessors such as David Wojnarowicz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, and Jack Smith; nor does it celebrate the unabashed sexual exuberance of many younger queer artists.

View the press release here. 

For more information please contact CLAMP 


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ART FAIR: DRAWING NOW, PARIS

New works on paper will be exhibited at Drawing Now Art Fair with Galerie Alain Gutharc, March 23 - 26, 2023 at the Carreau du Temple in Paris.  For more information, please contact Galerie Alain Gutharc.   
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GROUP EXHIBITION: COME OUT & PLAY @ BEERS LONDON



 Group Exhibition: Come Out & Play at BEERS London, London, UK - June 18 - July 16, 2022

Participating Artists:

Adam Baker * Paul Booth * Katherine Bradford * J. Carino * Giorgio Celin * Wenjie Ding * KEEYA * Kris Knight * Navot Miller * Andrew Moncrief * Gori Mora * Emily Oliveira * Ally Rosenberg * Andrew Salgado * Logan T. Sibrel * Krzysztof Strzelecki * Brea Weinreb * Caleb Yono

Curated by artist Andrew Salgado the LGBTQ+ themed exhibition Come Out & Play, celebrates internationally-based queer artists whose practice prioritizes a bold approach and work that is celebratory, challenging, and progressive. The artists included present queerness as manifest through colour and play, a subject matter free from taboo or shame, and a greater practice that responds to the contemporary ideology of what it means to be a queer artist in society. Included works are primarily in – but not limited to – the form of figurative painting. The exhibition presents lesser-known LGBTQ+ artists alongside mid-career or more established artists at work today.

Exhibition Text by Russell Tovey, Collector & Author, Talk Art   

For more information please contact BEERS London



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GROUP EXHIBITION: 200 TRUNKS, 200 VISIONARIES @ LA GALERIE LOUIS VUITTON, ASNIÈRES-SUR-SEINE


 

"200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries: The Exhibition" an invitational exhibition of creative trunk designs created to celebrate Louis Vuitton's bicentennial birthday displayed in his historical home in Asniéres, December 9th - January 6th, 2022.  *This exhibition will travel the world in 2022.  

04.04.2022 - Marina Bay Sands Events Plaza, Singapore - more info here. 

07.29.2022 - 09.06.2022 - Beverly Hills, California - more info here.  



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GROUP EXHIBITION: VASE @ GALERIE ALAIN GUTHARC, PARIS



VASE, Group exhibition at Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris - December 12th - February 28th, 2021. 

  

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SOLO EXHIBITION: AUSCULTATE @ GALERIE NICOLAS ROBERT, MONTRÉAL

Kris Knight - Auscultate

Du 21 octobre au 21 novembre 2020 | From October 21 to November 21, 2020


La Galerie Nicolas Robert est heureuse de présenter Auscultate une exposition des plus récentes peintures figuratives de l'artiste torontois Kris Knight. Avec cette exposition, dont le titre fait référence à l’acte d’écouter pour comprendre, apprendre, diagnostiquer, Knight poursuit son exploration de l'intimité à travers des récits qui s’ancrent dans la performance, la queerness et la représentation.  Kris Knight, Wilfire Conservatory, Oil on Canvas, 24x18" 2020
 
La majorité de ces nouvelles œuvres ayant été réalisées pendant la période de quarantaine au printemps dernier, Knight s'est inspiré majoritairement de souvenir et d’expérience personnelle, ainsi que de sources photographiques antérieures au confinement, souvent d'amis ou de connaissances. La réflexivité de ces œuvres intimes présente des œuvres et des portraits qui se retirent de la grandeur du monde tout en le reflétant et en y répondant subtilement. Tirant parti du silence plutôt que du vacarme, de l’apprentissage plutôt que de l'ignorance et de l’écoute plutôt que la prise de parole, ces reflets sombres, tendres, nostalgiques et parfois humoristiques de la vie quotidienne évoquent souvent un sentiment inconfortable sous-jacent de totale sérénité et d’incertitude. 

L'artiste tient à remercier le Conseil des Arts du Canada ainsi que le Conseil des Arts de l'Ontario pour avoir rendu cette exposition possible.

Pour plus d'informations, veuillez contacter Laurence Dallaire ou Nicolas Robert au info@galerienicolasrobert.com ou au 514-373-2027.


Galerie Nicolas Robert is pleased to present Auscultate an exhibition of recent figurative paintings by Toronto-based artist Kris Knight. With Auscultate (to learn by listening), Knight continues his exploration of intimacy through narratives that revolve around performance, queerness and representation. 
 
With the majority of these new works completed during lockdown, Knight drew inspiration from memory and personal experience, as well as pre-social isolation photographic source material often portraying his friends and acquaintances. The reflexivity in the narrative of these intimate works present paintings and portraits that retreat from the muchness of the world yet subtly mirror and respond to it just the same.  Leveraging silence over distraction, learning over ignorance and listening over speaking, these somber, tender, nostalgic and sometimes humourous reflections of daily life often have an underlying discomfort of total quiet and the uncertainty of now. 

The artist would like thank the Canada Council for the Arts, as well as the Ontario Arts Council for making this exhibition possible. 

For more information, please contact Laurence Dallaire or Nicolas Robert at info@galerienicolasrobert.com or 514-373-2027.







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GROUP EXHIBITION: UN MOUTON DANS LA CAISSE @ GALERIE ALAIN GUTHARC, PARIS

Group Exhibition at Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
June 13 - July 31, 2020
Featuring works on paper by artists Edi Dubien, Cyril Duret, Laurent Goumarre, Suzanne Husky, Kris Knight, Guillaume Linard-Osorio, Bernard Quesniaux, Guillaume Talbi. 
The Little Prince is a mysterious and familiar being, so much he accompanies us, all as we are, with his poetry and his moving gaze on the world and the things of this world.Saint Exupéry knew how to give him a body, an image, a form, both possible and impossible at the same time. His Little Prince is, and yet will never be real if it is not in our hearts and our minds.
The first chapter of this tale tells about the meeting of the broken-down, not to say lost, aviator in the sandy ocean of the Saharan desert. The Little Prince arises and, with themost natural way to imagine, but insistently at the same time, ask the pilot to draw a sheep for him. It’s only on the fourth try, renunciation and abandonment, that the child rejoices with happiness at the design of a box pierced with ventilation holes and the “not so small sheep” it contains.
Drawing is the support for our imagination. Maybe even more than painting because it is faster, often lighter, sometimes more spontaneous, it is believed. Anyway, there seems more immediately affordable and seizable as more modest. No doubt this is because we have all scribbled, colored, constructed figures on the surface of a paper sheet, or simply invaded the space of this one of lines that intersect like abstractions. In short, drawing is familiar to us, even if for many years, sometimes decades, we have abandoned the idea to other hands deemed more skilled or more capable to accomplish the task.
This exhibition shows drawings, and only drawings. These are the works of Edi Dubien, Cyril Duret, Laurent Goumarre, Suzanne Husky, Kris Knight, Guillaume Linard-Osorio, Bernard Quesniaux, Guillaume Talbi.
Each artist has his own trait, his way, his identity. Each artist has their own universe. Their confrontation, or rather their cohabitation, is the fruit of our will. This will meets our interests, our pleasures, our desires. But also, and above all, in our eyes, which not stopping at the surface of the lines, they can see, perhaps, the sheep contained in transport boxes and elephants swallowed by gluttonous boas.This exhibition invites you to rediscover your Little Prince eyes and the happy pleasure of living, feeling and sharing.

For more information please contact Galerie Alain Gutharc 
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GROUP EXHIBITION: A PORTRAIT SHOW @ VIVIANEART, CALGARY

Kris Knight, "Niagara Falls" Oil on canvas, 14x11" 2019 
Group exhibition at VIVIANEART, Calgary, November 15- December 21, 2019.
Opening: Saturday, November 16th, 2019  2-5PM 
VIVIANEART is proud to present “A Portrait Show”, a present day exploration of an age-old genre. Identity seems a particularly charged topic as we move through these early decades of the 21st century.  Today’s portrait artists have an opportunity to impact current considerations of identity as it relates to race, gender, sexual identity and the politics of each.
The five artists included in this group exhibition, Alex Bierk, Erik Olson, Kris Knight, Tyler Bright Hilton and Winnie Truong, are all impactful Canadian art influencers in their own right. While portraiture has shifted and changed over time, what has not changed is that the most successful pieces are not only skilled works, but also socially relevant, innovative and personal in some way to the maker.  These artists bring this caliber of portraiture to the fore. Whether the deeply intimate and emotionally charged hyper-real paintings of Alex Bierk, the colourful, abstracted character studies of Erik Olson, or the oft fictional character explorations of Winnie Truong, Kris Knight and Tyler Bright Hilton, they endeavor to delve into self, other and ultimately, the identity of each.
For more information + images please contact VIVIANEART 



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