Autumn Knight

Last updated: October 2025

Autumn Knight is an artist working with performance, installation, video, and text. Her performance work has been presented at Akademie der Kunste, Art League Houston, Blaffer Art Museum, The Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Crystal Bridges Museum, DiverseWorks, Krannert Art Museum, The New Museum, Optica, The Poetry Project, Project Row Houses, and Skowhegan Space. Knight has been an artist-in-residence with In-Situ, Galveston Artist Residency, YICA, Artpace, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. She is the recipient of an Artadia Award (2015) and an Art Matters Grant (2018). She has served as a visiting artist at Montclair State University, Princeton University, and Bard College. Her performance work is in the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2016 and holds a MA in Drama Therapy from New York University.

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