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Artist BioDawn Knight is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator. She was raised in the back of a family restaurant in a tiny town in rural Manitoba. Her fascination with place, balance and comfort, the dynamics of social interaction and intimacy, and gender roles developed as she spent hours every day observing the restaurant’s patrons.
Over the last 20 years she has developed work in a variety of media, including poetry and spoken word pieces, video, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, textile-based work, and hand-made books and zines. Her passion lies in conceptual art, performance and installation works. |
Filled with pathos, self-reflection and humor, Knight's work has explored a variety of themes around the human body and social experience: family and genetics, deformity and disease, romance, sexuality and reproduction, intimacy and connection, beauty and femininity and the informal social governance of gender, shame, physical and spiritual safety/sanctuary, and the chasm between expectations and reality,
She seeks inspiration in her own awkward journey and personal experiences, and catharsis in creating work that is both autobiographical and accessible. Her goal is to continue to investigate the ways that individual and collective expectations, assumptions, and biases play in constructing complex interactions between intimates and strangers, and ultimately lead us to redefine ourselves.
Dawn Knight currently lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with her over-friendly cat Fidel Catstro, and her anxious but perfect dog, Stella Maris.
She seeks inspiration in her own awkward journey and personal experiences, and catharsis in creating work that is both autobiographical and accessible. Her goal is to continue to investigate the ways that individual and collective expectations, assumptions, and biases play in constructing complex interactions between intimates and strangers, and ultimately lead us to redefine ourselves.
Dawn Knight currently lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with her over-friendly cat Fidel Catstro, and her anxious but perfect dog, Stella Maris.
