John Knight
Illustration — The Right to be Lazy, Hamburger Bahnhof John Knight (born 1945 in Hollywood, California) is a conceptual artist in Los Angeles, California who works in situ. Since the 1960s, Knight has made works grounded in site-specificity and institutional critique, works that interrogate underlying economic systems.
John Knight
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- 1945 · Hollywood.
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- United States
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- artist · painter · photographer
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Illustration — The Right to be Lazy, Hamburger Bahnhof John Knight (born 1945 in Hollywood, California) is a conceptual artist in Los Angeles, California who works in situ. Since the 1960s, Knight has made works grounded in site-specificity and institutional critique, works that interrogate underlying economic systems.
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• John Knight – Enkele Werken, formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (1990). • Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, Castellón (2008). • John Knight, Autotypes, A Work in Situ, Greene Naftali (2011) • Portikus, Frankfurt (2013) • Cabinet Gallery at Fitzpatrick-Leland House, Los Angeles (2014) • Art Institute of Chicago (2015) • John Knight, A Work in Situ, Ground Floor, Greene Naftali (2015) • John Knight, A work in situ, Redcat, Los Angeles (2016) • John Knight, Vacant Possession, Cabinet, London (2016)
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• Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York (2012)
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1945
John Knight born at Hollywood.
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• John Knight, Cold Cuts, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, Castellón (2009) • John Knight, Autotypes, Greene Naftali (2011) • John Knight, Quiet Quality, Cabinet Gallery (2013) • John Knight (October Files), MIT Press, Cambridge (2014)
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