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Autumn Knight is an interdisciplinary artist from Houston Texas. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York University where she received her M.A. in Drama Therapy. Her installations, performances, and text actions have been exhibition nationally and internationally at institutions including; Studio Museum in Harlem, The New Museum, NY Project Row Houses in Houston, YICA in Yamaguchi, Japan, Blaffer Art Museum, The Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, and the Crystal Bridges Museum. She has been awarded numerous residencies including ME, In-Situ in the United Kingdom, Artpace, TX, Galveston Artist Residency. Knight is the winner of the 2015 Artadia Award.

Background
Autumn Knight is a Houston-based interdisciplinary artist. Knight’s work primarily falls within the rubric of performance, installation, and social practices that address conventions of racial and gender identity, psychotherapy, and art access. Knight’s performance work has been in group exhibitions at various institutions, including the University Museum at Texas Southern University, Houston ; DiverseWorks, Houston; Art League Houston; Project Row Houses, Houston; and Blaffer Art Museum, Houston. She was a 2013–14 artist-in-residence at Galveston Artist Residency, Texas, and an international artist-in-residence at In-Situ, Pendle, UK. She has more recently received residencies from Yamaguchi Institute of Contemporary Art in Japan in 2015 and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York 2016-17.

Career
Autumn Knight multimedia work creates a collaborative and dynamic structure to explore the establish modes of thinking across forms or vernacular subversion including stand-up comedy and Pop music and cinema. Knight’s interdisciplinary practice takes us on a journey through a myriad of Black American ecologies for survival, both from a personal and a systemic vantage. Knight’s prominent works include her performance WALL (2013). Wall is a series of performed sound, rituals, and actions used to re-imagine the concept of the a wailing wall. Knight complicates the spaces of The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and the Galveston Seawall, a ten mile long hurricane barrier located in the Texas. She compresses the locations’ psychological, spiritual, and embodied resonances.

Knight's solo exhibitions include; "She Think She Kawaii" at Artpace in San Antonio, "GYN" at Fresh Arts, Houston, "WALL" at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston, and "We Go As They" at The Studio Museum in Harlem