Autumn Knight is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist who works with performance, installation, video, and text. Drawing on her training in theatre and the psychology of group dynamics, Knight makes performances that reshape perceptions of race, gender, and authority. 

Knight’s performance work has been presented in museums, galleries, and performance venues including Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2025); Shedhalle, Zürich (2025); Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland (2024, 2018); Performance Space New York (2023); Museum Ostwall, Dortmund (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA Chicago)(2022); Western Front, Vancouver (2021); The Kitchen, New York (2020); Performa, New York (2019); the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019); Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2018); and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2017), among others. Knight’s work WALL (2014–16) was the first live performance work acquired for the permanent collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Knight’s solo exhibitions include Nothing #26: The Potential of Nothing Is Everything at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York (2023), and In Rehearsal at Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois (2017).

Knight is the recipient of awards, grants, and fellowships, including the Houston Artadia Award, Art Matters Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Art, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2024, she received a Trellis Art Fund Milestone Grant. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016) and holds a BA in Theater Arts from Dillard University and an MA in Drama Therapy from New York University.

Source: ICA Website