Dominique Knowles
News:
November 1, 2024 – January 11, 2025
Dominique Knowles (Group Show), Spangled Mind, Greene Naftali, New York (US)
October 4 – November 30, 2024
September 7 – December 1, 2024
Dominique Knowles
Pansori - a soundscape of the 21st century, 2024
Installation view
15th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KOR)
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified, 2024
Installation view
Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified, 2024
Installation view
Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified, 2024
Installation view
Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified, 2024
Installation view
Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong
Dominique Knowles
Songs for the Changing Seasons, 2024
Installation view
Klima Biennale Wien, Vienna
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2023
Installation view
Andräkirche Salzburg, organised by Layr, Vienna
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2023
Installation view
Andräkirche Salzburg, organised by Layr, Vienna
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2023
Installation view
Andräkirche Salzburg, organised by Layr, Vienna
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2023
Installation view
Andräkirche Salzburg, organised by Layr, Vienna
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2023
Installation view
Andräkirche Salzburg, organised by Layr, Vienna
Dominique Knowles
Morning Pasture, 2020
Oil on canvas
304.8 × 762 cm
Dominique Knowles
Installation view
Cinema Galleggiante – Acque Sconosciute, Venice, 2022
© Riccardo Banfi and Microclima 2022
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2021
Oil on linen
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2021
Oil on linen
118 × 163 cm
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2021
Oil on linen
118 × 163 cm
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2021
Oil on linen
118 × 163 cm
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2021
Oil on linen
118 × 163 cm
Dominique Knowles
I remember being home and just watching a storm from the horizon Walk over like a cloak of death The rain was so thick that it looked like another cloud, a phantom Though other clouds near it would cause the sun’s light to bounce off of it, And create a different light It’s strange seeing a sunset and a storm together Soon the storm reaches the land and you’re in the rain, All under the glow of the sunset, 2016
Oil on canvas
152.4 × 152.4 cm
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2021
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2021
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Dominique Knowles
Meena, 2018
Oil on canvas
213.3 × 457.2 cm
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2021
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2020
Oil on panel
32.3 × 42.3 cm
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2020
Oil on panel
32.3 × 42.3 cm
Dominique Knowles
Break the Smoke in Deep, 2016-2020
Oil on canvas
132.1 × 132.1 cm
Dominique Knowles,
The Water Will Swallow Us As Crystalline, 2016-2020
Oil on canvas
50.8 × 60.9 cm
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, 2021
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Dominique Knowles
Ode to Tazz, 2021
Green Granite
89 × 58,5 × 10 cm
Dominique Knowles
Ode to Tazz, 2021
Green Granite
89 × 58,5 × 10 cm
Dominique Knowles
Ode to Tazz, 2021
Green Granite
89 × 58,5 × 10 cm
Dominique Knowles
Ode to Tazz, 2021
Green Granite
89 × 58,5 × 10 cm
Dominique Knowles
Desert Dust, 2020
Flashe on UV-protected waterproof vinyl-covered poly tarp, Soccer Club Club Drag City Records billboard
152.4 × 762 cm
Dominique Knowles
Dala Horse, 2018
Casein on panel
29.21 × 44.5 cm
Dominique Knowles
Mustangs At Dusk, 2020
Flashe and oil on canvas
243.8 × 640 cm
Dominique Knowles
In Hopes of Seeing a Sunset Over the Goldfield, 2017
Oil on canvas
152.4 × 152.4 cm
Dominique Knowles
Like Dreaming of Angels and Leaving Without Them, 2016
Oil on canvas
152.4 × 152.4 cm
Dominique Knowles
Anoyo, 2015-2019
Oil on canvas
137.1 × 137.1 cm
Dominique Knowles
Your Bones Breathe Warmth, 2017
Oil on canvas
198.1 × 213.3 cm
Dominique Knowles
Blood Rainbow, 2016
Oil on canvas
191.7 × 201.9 cm
Dominique Knowles
The monument will be fragile for some time Will you find an empty grave at the end of eternity There will be flowers Though she was cremated May we cover her ashes with flowers The lid of the vessel that seemingly holds the body Her spirit flows like a river I’m grasping the absurdity of real currents slipping (Ether), 2019
Oil on canvas
304.8 × 1188.7 cm
Cenzina, 2019
Installation view, Ode to Tazz, The Green Gallery East, Milwaukee
Dominique Knowles
Kevin‘s Stone, 2018
Alabaster
8.9 × 55.9 × 58.4 cm
Dominique Knowles
Kevin‘s Stone, 2018
Alabaster
8.9 × 55.9 × 58.4 cm
Dominique Knowles
I should try to press on your skin and breathe into you as much as I can To love you is to make a lasting memory of my embrace in your body Regardless if I am in disbelief Devotion is to pull the weight of your entire life onto me A surrogate may not hold you I’ll keep going until my blood is in your heart. Ode to Tazz, 2017
Carrara Marble
40.6 × 33 × 17.7 cm
Dominique Knowles
I should try to press on your skin and breathe into you as much as I can To love you is to make a lasting memory of my embrace in your body Regardless if I am in disbelief Devotion is to pull the weight of your entire life onto me A surrogate may not hold you I’ll keep going until my blood is in your heart. Ode to Tazz, 2017
Carrara Marble
40.6 × 33 × 17.7 cm
Dominique Knowles
Pegasus Born of the Sea as The Blood of Medusa Erupts, 2017
Oil on canvas
200.7 × 214.6 cm
Dominique Knowles
Dean‘s Blue Hole (Portal), 2015-2019
Oil on canvas
162.6 × 136.5 cm
Dominique Knowles
Cenzina, 2019
Installation view, Ode to Tazz, The Green Gallery East, Milwaukee
Dominique Knowles
Cenzina (Act I), 2010-2019
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Dominique Knowles
Hickstead (Act II), 2019
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Dominique Knowles
Tahlequah (Act III), 2019
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Dominique Knowles
Tahlequah (Act III), 2019
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Dominique Knowles
Sliding holding you pool in my palms catching bleeding skin sticking at the end of an anointed touch coagulating black abyss reflecting the dissolution of our grave womb fossilizing acid burning oil edge of eroding soil shivering stone Ruins, 2019
Molasses, oil on canvas
368.3 × 365.76 cm
Dominique Knowles
Sliding holding you pool in my palms catching bleeding skin sticking at the end of an anointed touch coagulating black abyss reflecting the dissolution of our grave womb fossilizing acid burning oil edge of eroding soil shivering stone Ruins, 2019
Installation view, The Intuitive Language of an Extended Hand, Julius Caesar Chicago IL (US)
Dominique Knowles
Shimenawa Centaur, 2018
Oil on canvas
60.9 × 81.3 cm
Dominique Knowles
The Inheritance of Empathy from my Beloved 2017
Wax on paper
85.1 × 120.9 cm
Dominique Knowles
I should try to press on your skin and breathe into you as much as I can To love you is to make a lasting memory of my embrace in your body Regardless if I am in disbelief Devotion is to pull the weight of your entire life onto me A surrogate may not hold you I’ll keep going until my blood is in your heart. Ode to Tazz, 2016
Oil on canvas
152.4 × 304.8 cm
Dominique Knowles
I should try to press on your skin and breathe into you as much as I can To love you is to make a lasting memory of my embrace in your body Regardless if I am in disbelief Devotion is to pull the weight of your entire life onto me A surrogate may not hold you I’ll keep going until my blood is in your heart. Ode to Tazz, 2017
Translucent Italian Alabaster
22.9 × 20.3 cm
Dominique Knowles
I should try to press on your skin and breathe into you as much as I can To love you is to make a lasting memory of my embrace in your body Regardless if I am in disbelief Devotion is to pull the weight of your entire life onto me A surrogate may not hold you I’ll keep going until my blood is in your heart, 2017
Installation view, In The Warmest Glance of the Sun, NAGB, Nassau (BS)
Dominique Knowles
Equus Kasa, 2017
Hand blown glass in bronze color
16.5 × 22.9 × 15.9 cm
Dominique Knowles
Equus Kasa, 2017
Hand blown glass in bronze color
16.5 × 22.9 × 15.9 cm
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn and Dignified Burial of My Beloved, 2018
Oil on canvas
213.7 × 274.3 cm
Dominique Knowles
Returnal, 2016
Oil on canvas
182.9 × 182.9 cm
Dominique Knowles
Circle Dance, 2018
Casein on panel
29.2 × 44.5 cm
Dominique Knowles
Sun Cave, 2018
Oil on panel
84.8 × 121.9 cm
Dominique Knowles
Melancholia, 2016
Wood stone porcelain (fireplace built by artist‘s great grandfather Edward “Popop” Dillet in the 1920s)
Dimensions variable
Dominique Knowles
Horse Above the Earth, 2018
Wax on paper
21.6 × 27.9 cm
Dominique Knowles
Companion, 2019
Wax on paper
21.6 × 27.9 cm
Dominique Knowles
Guardians, 2019
Wax on paper
21.6 × 27.9 cm
Dominique Knowles
The Solemn & Dignified Burial, 2019
Wax on paper
27.9 × 21.6 cm
Dominique Knowles
My Beloved Resting, 2019
Wax on paper
21.6 × 27.9 cm
Dominique Knowles
Mary Kissing My Beloved Farewell, 2019
Wax on paper
27.9 × 21.6 cm
Dominique Knowles
Burial of My Beloved, 2019
Wax on paper
21.6 × 27.9 cm
Dominique Knowles
Horse Harbour, 2019
Wax on paper
27.9 × 21.6 cm
Dominique Knowles
My Beloved’s Garden, 2019
Wax on paper
21.6 × 27.9 cm
Dominique Knowles
My Beloved’s Harbour, 2019
Wax on paper
27.9 × 21.6 cm
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(Article) Creating new rituals for a world in flux. At Art Basel Hong Kong, artists are reworking traditional and spiritual forms to meet the moment, by Stephanie Bailey, in Art Basel Stories
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(Article) Artist Dominique Knowles’s Muse Is Also One of His Greatest Loves: Horses, by Tiana Reid, in Cultured Magazine
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(Article) Horsepower: Rethinking the Equine in Contemporary Art by Isabella Miller, in Carla, Contemporary Art Review
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(Review) Fielding The Necropastorial Exchange, Mark Pieterson on Dominique Knowles at Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, in TEXTE ZUR KUNST
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(Review) Gemaltes Requiem für ein geliebtes Pferd: Dominique Knowles in der Andräkirche, in Kurier
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(Review) Salzburgs Ausstellungen überspannen den Bogen, in Die Presse
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(Interview) This Painter’s Ode to Intimacy and Loss Is Inspired by His Equestrian Love From Childhood, in Elephant Art
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(Review) Dominique Knowles “My Beloved” Hannah Hoffman / Los Angeles, in Flash Art
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(Review) Between the Strange and Sublime: A Review of Heft at Patron Gallery, in Sixty Inches From Center
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(Review) A New Lunchtime Screening Series Delves Into Our Environmental Crisis, in: Hyperallergic (2021)
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(Interview) Artist of the Week: Dominique Knowles, in: LVL3 (August 2021)
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(Review) The Best Exhibitions to See in Europe this Summer, in: Frieze (June 2021)
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Dominique Knowles, in: Contemporary Art Library (2021)
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Samuel Anderson, (Article) Can a Painting of a Horse be a Metaphor for Queer Desire?, in: Garage Magazine (December 2020)
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Maggie Wong, (Review) Tensions of Access: Empathy Fatigue // Andrew Rafacz, in: The Seen Journal (April 2020)
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María Inés Plaza Lazo, (Review) REVIEW: VARIOUS OTHERS, in: Arts of the Working Class (October 2020)
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Evelyn Vogel, (Review) Ross, Nicht Reiter, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung (October 2020)
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Bad at Sports, podcast, Episode 710, November 5 2019
Dominique Knowles
*1996 in Nassau, Bahamas
lives and works in Paris
Education
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2020
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, Master of Fine Art, Painting & Drawing
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2017
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bachelor of Fine Art, Advanced Painting
Solo Exhibitions
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2024
The Solemn and Dignified, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (HK)
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2023
Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, Andräkirche Salzburg, organised by Layr, Salzburg (AT) -
2022
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, Chapter NY Gallery, New York City, NY (US)
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2021
The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, Layr, Vienna (AT)
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2020
The Sun Sinks, Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL (US)
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2019
Ode to Tazz, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (US)
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2017
In The Warmest Glance of the Sun, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (BS)
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2014
Cygnus, Popopstudios ICVA, Nassau, Bahamas, curated by Heino Schmid (BS)
Selected Group Exhibitions
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2024
Butterflies, David Peter Francis, New York (US)
Loose Threads, Bombon Projects, Barcelona (ESP)
Arcadia and Elsewhere, James Cohan, New York City (US)
Who Speaks for the Oceans?, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston (US)
Songs for the Changing Seasons, Klima Biennale Wien, Vienna (AT)
Pansori - a soundscape of the 21st century, 15th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KOR)
Spangled Mind, Greene Naftali, New York (US)
LUKOWA Art Collection Showcase, Lucerne (CH)
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2023
Looking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual – Selected by Mary Manning, White Columns, New York (US)
Flesh & Flowers - Made in America, curated by Lauren Taschen, No Name Creative Projects, Paris (FR)
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2022
New Space Show, Layr, Vienna (AT)
The Animal Within – Creatures in (and outside) the mumok Collection, mumok, Vienna (AT)
that other world, the world of the teapot. tenderness, a model, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover (DE)
Portals, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo (JP)
Looking Back, White Columns, New York (NY)
Alchemy & Cosmology, Fortnite Institute, New York (NY)
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2021
AISTIT, coming to our senses - CHAPTER IV, Helsinki Festival, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki (FI)
Fifteen Painters, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York City, NY (US)
AISTIT / coming to our senses - Chapter III, Resonant bodies, KINDL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE)
Lichtenfels Sculpture, Ruine Lichtenfels, Lichtenfels (AT)
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2020
Various Others (Layr hosted by Sperling), Sperling, Munich (DE)
Empathy Fatigue, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL (US)
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2019
The Map is Not the Territory (Josh Dihle, Mika Horibuchi, Dominique Knowles, Robyn O’Niel, Ryan M Pfeiffer + Rebecca Walz and Nancy Spero) at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL (US)
With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters, curated by Jose Lerma, Elmhurst, Chicago, IL (US)
The Intuitive Language of an Extended Hand, at Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL (US) curated by Kate Sierzputowski
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2018
Stretch Out the Cramp: A Drawing Survey from 2017, GreenDoor, Chicago, IL (US)
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2017
House Warming, curated by The Condo Association, Chicago, IL (US)
Übersee, curated by Holly Bynoe and Tonel. Halle 14, Leipzig (DE)
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2016
Neo Global curated by Rachael Barrett. Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL (US)
When The Sun Drowns In The Ocean, Popop Studios, Nassau (BS)
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2015
Nassau Calling, curated by Amanda Coulson & Ulrich Voges. HilgerBROT Kunsthalle, Vienna (AT)
Sightlines, Mild Climate, formerly The Packing Plant, Nashville, TN (US)
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2014
Ne7 Antillean: An Ecology, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau (BS)
11 Strong, The Glass Bridge Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas, curated by John Cox (BS)
Future Memories, 14°N 61°W, Fort-de-France, curated by Holly Bynoe (MTQ)
Transforming Spaces: Water, Popopstudios, Nassau, curated by Dylan Rapillard (BS)
Transforming Spaces: Water, Doongalik Studios, Nassau, curated by Heino Schmid (BS)
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2013
Transcendence (conversations with dom: Abstract Painting), Popopstudios, Nassau, co-curators Toby Lunn, Kendal Hanna & John Cox (BS)
Awards
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2018-2020
New Artist Society Award, full scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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2014-2017
Recognition Merit Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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2013
Dean’s List, Columbia College
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2012
Collegiate Presidential Inaugural Conference, Inauguration of Barack Obama
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2011
Winter Equestrian Festival
S.F.H.J.A. Jr. Huntseat Medal Final
Equestrian Global Young Leaders, Model United Nations
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2010-2012
Equestrian Sport Productions
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2009
S.F.H.J.A. Hunter Classic Champion, Equestrian
Film Festivals
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2022
Monokino, Tahlequah, Oostende (BE)
Kunstencentrum, Tahlequah, Buda (BE)
Basel Film Parcours, Tahlequah, Basel (CH)
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2020
Vdrome, Tahlequah, curated by Andrea Lissoni
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2014
New Media, Trinidad & Tobago International Film Festival, curated by Holly Bynoe (TTO)
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2012
Bahamas International Film Festival, curated by Leslie Vanderpool (BS)
Residency
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2019
The Suburban Walker‘s Point, Milwaukee, WI (US)
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2014
CRIT, Liquid Courage Gallery, Nassau, (BS)
Readings
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2021
Mishkin Gallery: Critical Ecology on Film | Dominique Knowles in conversation with Professor David Gruber (US)
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2020
Dominique Knowles and Mari Eastman in Conversation, The Sun Sinks, Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL (US)
Dominique Knowles, Lena Henke & Megan Francis Sullivan in conversation with Stephanie Weber, Various Others (LAYR hosted by Sperling), Sperling, Munich (DE) (online)
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2019
Death Doula, w/ Lise Hallerbaggesen, Devin T. Mays, Danielle Rosen, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL (US)
garden/ruinate, by Eliza Myrie, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (US)
Ode to Tazz, poetry reading, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (US)
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2017
In The Warmest Glance of the Sun, with curator Holly Bynoe, NAGB, Nassau (BS)
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2013
Conversations with Dominique Knowles, Kendal Hanna, Toby Lunn, John Cox, Popop Studios, Nassau (BS)
Gallery Associate
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2018
David Wojnarowicz: Flesh of My Flesh, Iceberg Projects “In a house, Tinted and Patterned”: John Schacht and Queer Ornament, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL (US)
A Laurie Palmer, Sensing Connection to the Time Left, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL (US)
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2017
Hervé Guibert: How could it be otherwise?, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL (US)
Stack for Carrington’s Hyena, Dani Leventhal & Sheilah Wilson, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL (US)
Curatorial
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2017
Nandi (Parker Bright, Elijah Burgher, James Kerley, Rohan Khanna, Michael Madrigali, Anwar Mahdi, Ignacio María Manrique, Kaveri Raina, Ryan M Pfeiffer + Rebecca Walz, Caleb Yono), The Condo Association, Chicago, IL (US)
Selected Press
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2023
TEXTE ZUR KUNST, Fielding The Necropastorial Exchange, Dominique Knowles at Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, Mark Pieterson
Carla, Contemporary Art Review, Horsepower: Rethinking the Equine in Contemporary Art, Isabella MillerElephant Art, This Painter’s Ode to Intimacy and Loss Is Inspired by His Equestrian Love From Childhood, Meka Boyle
Die Presse, The Solemn and Dignified Burial Befitting My Beloved for All Seasons, Salzburgs Ausstellungen überspannen den Bogen, Almuth Spiegler -
2021
LVL3, Artist of the Week: Dominique Knowles, Sam Dybeck
Frieze, The Best Exhibitions to See in Europe this Summer
Hyperallergic, A New Lunchtime Screening Series Delves Into Our Environmental Crisis, Dessane Lopez Cassell
PW Magazine, Weekly Essentials (June 7 - June 13)
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2020
New American Paintings, MIDWEST #149, Juror: Henriette Huldisch
Garage Magazine, Can a Painting of a Horse be a Metaphor for Queer Desire?, Samuel Anderson
The Seen Journal, Tensions of Access: Empathy Fatigue // Andrew Rafacz, Maggie Wong
Arts of the Working Class, Review: Various Others, María Inés Plaza Lazo
Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Ross, Nicht Reiter, Evelyn Vogel
Art Viewer, Various Others at SPERLING, Pia-Marie Remmers
Spike Art Magazine, On the Weekends that were - Munich, Zurich, and Berlin, Colin Lang
KubaParis, Various Others 2020: Lena Henke, Dominique Knowles, Megan Francis, Sullivan, Pia-Marie Remmers, Ulrich Gebert (Photography)
Parnass Magazine, Kompass Contemporary - Various Others München, Paula Watzl
FAZ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, In München mit voller Kraft voraus, Brita Sachs
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2019
Art Forum, online, Daniel R. Quiles,
Bad at Sports, podcast, Episode 710
Caribbean Art Initiative, Brian Fee & Albertine Kopp
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2017
Sovereign / Beast (Condo Associations), Jeremy Biles Phd, September 2017 The Chicago Tribune, KT Hawbaker, July 27th 2017
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2016
Studio Visit, by Keisha Oliver
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2014
4 Questions, by Tessa Whitehead, August 20, 2014
The Nassau Guardian, “10 Questions”, by Corinne Lampkin, July 19, 2014
Arc Magazine, ‘‘Cygnus: New Works by Dominique Knowles’’ by Holly Bynoe, June 19, 2014