Jasper Knight is a Sydney-based artist. Born in 1978, he obtained a Master of Arts from the University of New South Wales in 2003.
From 2005-2022, Knight has been a finalist in the Archibald prize eight times. He has been a finalist in the Wynne Prize four times, the Sulman prize twice and the Moran prize twice. He was awarded an Australia Council Emerging and Established New Work grant, the Freedman Foundation Scholarship and the Rocks Art Prize.
He has also been a finalist in the Blake Prize, The ABN-Amro Prize, The Helen Lempriere, The Brett Whiteley Prize and was the 2008 winner of The Mosman Art Prize. In 2007 he opened Chalk Horse Gallery with the generous support of the Australia Council and the City of Sydney.
In 2023 Knight has shown in Sydney, Melbourne, at the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair and in Perth at Linton & Kay Galleries with his exhibition Dusk to Dawn. His work is in almost all NSW regional gallery collections, Artbank and the National Gallery of Australia. This year, two of his works entered the National Portrait Gallery permanent collection.
