EDUCATION:
1998 M.F.A. Painting American University
1994 B.F.A. Painting Indiana University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Wilder Plants, Moss Galleries, Falmouth, Maine
2019 Sunlight on Sweet Clover, Elizabeth Moss Galleries, Falmouth, Maine
Growing at Your Feet: Paintings by John Knight, Maine Audubon, Falmouth, Maine
Growing at Your Feet: Paintings by John Knight, Maine Audubon, Falmouth, Maine
2016
Some Planted Some Wild, Elizabeth Moss
Gallery, Falmouth, Maine
2013
Wildflowers and Nature's Power, Dana
Health Education Center,
Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine
Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine
2012 Drawing
on Wildflowers, Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, Maine
2010 Tidal Nocturne, Elizabeth Moss Gallery,
Falmouth, Maine
2009 Wildflower Compositions, Caldbeck
Gallery, Rockland, Maine
2008 Recent Work by John Knight, Portland
Arts and Cultural Alliance offices, Portland, Maine
2006 John Knight : Maine Arts Commission 2007 Fellow in
Visual Art
Maine State House, Augusta, Maine
2005 Land and Soul, The Clown Gallery,
Portland, Maine
2004 Variations
on a Thistle, The Via Group, Portland, Maine
2004 Landscapes
and Plants, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, The Fine Arts Work Center,
Provincetown, Massachusetts
2002 Weeds, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland,
Maine
1999 Growing: Drawings and Prints by John Knight
Lewis
Gallery, Portland Public Library, Portland, Maine
1998 John Knight - Paintings, Prints, and Drawings
The
Dumbarton Concert Gallery, Washington D.C.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, Maine
2021 Storylines, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2019 Atmospheric Water, L.C. Bates Museum, Hinkley, Maine
Come Spring, Page Gallery, Camden, Maine
2018 Summer Stable Show, Maine Farmland Trust, Belfast, Maine
Come Spring, Page Gallery, Camden, Maine
2018 Summer Stable Show, Maine Farmland Trust, Belfast, Maine
Independent Spirit, Dodwell Gallery,
Long Island, Maine
2016 Outside and Inside Landscape, Able Baker
Contemporary, Portland, Maine
The Wild Things, Maine
Farmland Trust, Belfast, Maine
Monhegan Artists’ Residency - 25 Years, Thomas
Moser, Freeport, Maine
2013 Rachel Carson, An Enduring Legacy, George
Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine
2012
Portes:
An Exhibition of Maine Art in Greece, Municipal Gallery of Mytilene (Halim
Bei)
Mytilene, Greece
2011 Eastern Shores, Hillwood Art Museum,
Brookville, NY
2010 Art in Embassies Program, US Embassy,
Timor – Leste
2009 Above and Below, Greenhut Galleries,
Portland, Maine
New Works 2009, Courthouse Gallery Fine
Art, Ellsworth, Maine
2008 Betwixt and Between: Color, Line, Texture,
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine
(curated
by Bruce Brown)
2007 Various Views of Nature, Caldbeck
Gallery, Rockland, Maine
2006
The Carina House Residency : A Gift of
Monhegan, Elan Fine Arts, Rockport, Maine
2004 What's the Story? Narrative Art from the
Watkins Collection,
Watkins
Gallery, American University, Washington, D.C.
Portland Museum of Art Biennial,
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
(Juried by
Lois Dodd, Harry Philbrick and Mary Ryan)
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2004/05,60-61
Collins,
Kate, “Art at Maine Audubon in
Falmouth shows off the many colors of nature”, The Forecaster, January 2, 2019
Harrison,
Sue, “Slipping Through the Cracks” Provincetown
Banner, February 26, 2004, cover page, Arts and Entertainment
Knowles,
Maggie, “Best Weeds in Town” The Portland
Phoenix, March 11-17, 2005, 14
McAvoy,
Suzette, “Fertile Ground: Ingrid Ellison, Mary Barnes & John Knight” Maine Home and Design, May 2010, 87-90
Parkhurst,
Emily, “Paintings will soon grace embassy walls” The Forecaster, Sept 23, 2010, 4
AWARDS:
2015
Artist's Resource Trust Grant, Berkshire Taconic Community
Foundation
2011 Fellowship,
Great Spruce Head Island Art Week, Maine
2006 Individual
Artist Fellowship, Maine Arts Commission
2003 Winter
Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1998 JoAnn
Crisp-Ellert Graduate Purchase Prize Award (Recipient through American University, Washington, D.C.)
1996 -1998 Full
fellowship, American University graduate painting program
ARTIST RESIDENCIES:
2011 Great Spruce Head Island Art Week, GSHI,
Maine
2003 - 2004 Fine
Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2002 Artist in Residence, Acadia National Park, Maine
2001 Carina Residency, Monhegan, Maine
1999 The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz,
New York
PUBLIC ART:
2017 Musician
Mural, Aikido of Maine, Bayside Trail, Portland, Maine
2017 Botanical Banners, Longfellow Elementary
Library, Portland Maine, 2014
2014 Longfellow Blooms, exterior mural,
Longfellow Elementary, Portland Maine, 2014