Jasper Knight

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“I paint vertically. It’s a gloss on gloss thing. I know I’m painting well when the background is doing as much for me as the foreground.”

Jasper Knight is a leading Australian contemporary artist renowned for his bold, post-Pop visual language and dynamic depictions of the urban environment. Working across painting, sculpture and installation, he combines industrial materials with layers of enamel and acrylic to create richly textured works that blur the line between abstraction and representation.

A graduate of Sydney College of the Arts and the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Knight has been a finalist in the Archibald, Wynne, Sulman and Moran Prizes, winning the Mosman Art Prize in 2008. His work has been exhibited throughout Australia and internationally, and is held in major collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery and Artbank.

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• About the artist

  Born 1978, lives and works in Sydney, NSW

• Exhibition history

  SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  2021 

  • Posters, Chalk Horse, Sydney

  2020

  • 333 Art Projects Presents: ‘Jasper Knight and Amber Boardman’ in the Clayton Utz Art Partnership, Sydney

  • The Joan Sea, Chalk Horse, Sydney

  2019

  • Monochromes, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

  • White Noise, Chalk Horse, Sydney

  • Satellites, The Fringe, Anita Chan La-liang Gallery, Hong Kong

  2018

  • Where we’re going we don’t need roads, Chalk Horse, Sydney

  2017

  • Bank of America Meryl Lynch, 333 Art Projects, Sydney

  • Now You See It, Chalk Horse, Sydney

  2016

  • Little Wonder, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

  • In a silent way, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

  • Jasper Knight and Clifton Mack-The lighthouse show, Chalk Horse, Sydney

  2015

  • Jumbo Kingdom, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong

  • Recent works on paper’ Art Stage Singapore, Chalk Horse, Sydney

  • The ten-year storm, Australian Galleries, Sydney 2014

  2014

  • Kurilpa Bridge, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

  • Survey show 2003-12, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW

  2013

  • One piece at a time, Black art projects Modena, Italy

  • Survey show 2003-2012, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW

  • Survey show 2003-12, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW

  2012

  • Solo presentation Sydney Contemporary Booth D142, Australian Galleries, Sydney

  • Survey show 2003-2012, Shoalhaven Regional Art Gallery, Nowra, NSW

  • Know your enemy, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW

  • Total Recall, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

  • Survey show 2003-2012, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn, NSW

  2011

  • Recent Work, Australian High Commission, Singapore North by Northwest, Greenhill Galleries, Perth

  • Roll-on Roll-off, Metro Gallery, Melbourne

  • Metal on Metal, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW

  • Sydney Boat Show, Chalk Horse, Sydney

  • The Fast and the Furious, Muk Muk Fine Art, Alice Springs, NT

  2010

  • There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, Chalk Horse, Sydney

  • Lost Highway, Greenhill Galleries, Perth

  • Road Trip, BMG Art ,Adelaide

  2009 

  • Spring Rockers, Chalk Horse, Sydney

  • Hunters & Gatherers: Works on Paper, Prints & Collages, Cosa Gallery, London

  • It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief, Metro Gallery, Melbourne

  2008

  • Apache, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW

  • Interior Disasters, Greenhill Galleries, Perth

  • Skytrain, BMGArt, Adelaide

  2007

  • Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne

  • Plattenbau, Green Hill Galleries, Perth

  • Tidemark/Thames Series, Cosa Gallery, London, UK

  • Dashanzi, Chalk Horse, Sydney

  2006

  • An Island in the Sun, Cosa Gallery, London, UK

  • Primary, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne

  2005

  • One to One, Phatspace Sydney

  2004

  • There were three in the bed and the little one said, Sherman Artbox, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

  • Driftwood, MOP Projects, Sydney

  • Autumn, mk17 Window Boxes, NSW Government Architect’s Office, Sydney

  2003

  • Inner Sydney, The Australia Centre, Australian Consulate, Manila, Philippines

  SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  2020

  • These Days, curated by Sebastian Goldspink, Sydney

  2014

  • Salon des refuses, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney

  • Adelaide Festival Show Todd Hunter & Jasper Knight BMG gallery, Adelaide

  • Summer Stock Show, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

  • Art in Unusual Places, Art and About, Sydney

  • Reload – Contemporary Landscape, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW

  2011

  • Large exhibition of small works, Australian Galleries, Sydney

  • Large exhibition of small works, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

  2010

  • Chalk Reindeer, Chalk Horse , Sydney

  • Opening Show, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW

  • Shanghart, Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai,China

  • Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

  2009

  • Chalk Reindeer, Chalk Horse, Sydney

  • Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

  • Smoking Guns, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, China

  • Abundant Australia, Australian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice

  • Italy Art Sydney: Sydney’s Affordable Art Fair, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney

  2007

  • Memento Mori, Blk/Mrkt Gallery, Brisbane Underscore, Josetti Hoffe Gallery, Berlin, Germany

  • Freedman Foundation Show, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

  2006

  • Art and About, Customs House Forecourt, Sydney

  • No Direction Home, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China Redlands

  • Cutting Fields: Collage in the 21st Century, First Draft, Sydney

  2004

  • One of (Festivus), Sherman Galleries, Sydney

  • ABN-AMRO, Emerging Artist Prize, Aurora Place, Sydney

  2003

  • Christmas Show, MOP Projects, Sydney

  2002

  • Slacking Off, Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney

• Awards and Collections

  GRANTS | AWARDS | RESIDENCIES

  2019 Archibald Prize, Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales

  2015 Sulman Prize, Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales

  2014 Salon des refuses, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney

  2013 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

  Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

  Adelaide Festival Show Todd Hunter & Jasper Knight BMG gallery, Adelaide

  2012 Summer Stock Show, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

  Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney

  Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

  Reload – Contemporary Landscape, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW

  2011 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

  2010 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

  2009 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

  Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

  Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

  2008 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney (Winner)

  2007 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

  Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

  2006 Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

  Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

  Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

  Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

  The Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

  2005 Art on the Rocks Prize, Rocks Visitors Centre, Sydney, (Winner)

  Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

  Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

  Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

  2004 One of (Festivus), Sherman Galleries, Sydney ABN-AMRO Emerging Artist Prize,

  Aurora Place, Sydney

  2003 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney Blake Prize, Sir Herman

  Black Gallery, Sydney

  COLLECTIONS

  • Artbank

  • Australian Consulate, Makati, Manila, Philippines

  • Australian Consulate, Singapore

  • Bathurst Regional Gallery

  • Bond University

  • Goulburn Regional Gallery

  • Gold Coast City Gallery

  • Macquarie University

  • Maitland Regional Gallery, NSW

  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

  • Newcastle Regional Gallery, Newcastle, NSW

  • Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, NSW

  • Sydney University

  • The Germanos Collection

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Works by the artist