Katherine Knight (artist)


Katherine Knight is a Canadian artist and documentary filmmaker whose artistic practice considers the relationships between landscape and personal experiences of time and place. Her works are included in many public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Banff Centre for the Arts and The Canada Council Art Bank. In addition to her artistic practice, Katherine Knight teaches in the Visual Art Department at York University.

Biography

Knight was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1955. Knight completed at Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1980 and a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Victoria in 1984.
In 2006, Katherine Knight and David Craig founded Site Media Inc, which has produced several documentaries about notable Canadian artists such as Annie Pootoogook, Wanda Koop, Spring Hurlbut and Arnaud Maggs, and Colette Urban ''.