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The first in a series of five performances, party of one sees Knight command the room, shifting the exhibition space into a live stage. A captivating performer, Knight uses her presence, movement and voice, alongside the elements of the exhibition including a lightbox platform and balloon net. The lecture-perfornance follows a text-based script developed in tandem with, and in response to, the other works in I Can't Complain. Knight’s performance practice often draws on absurdity, humour and vulnerability to confront serious topics, while opening them up for consideration with empathy.
Knight has been exploring complaint and disappointment in her practice for the last few years. She interrogates the nuances of complaint: the individual’s burden, the social judgement, who has the right to complain and where, and the institutions and mechanisms that suppress it. At the same time, she revels in the cathartic joy of expressing long-held grievances and the power of complaint made communal.
Across her solo exhibition I Can’t Complain, and within these performances, Knight explores complaint as tool for crystallizing other critical areas of her artistic interest: social dynamics, systems of authority, and conventional perceptions of race and gender.
About the artist
Autumn Knight is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist who works with performance, installation, video, and text. Drawing from her training in theatre and the psychology of group dynamics, Knight makes performances that reshape perceptions of race, gender, and authority.
Knight’s performance works have been presented by major museums, galleries, and performance venues including Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2025); Shedhalle, Zürich (2025); Performance Space New York, New York (2023); Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA Chicago), Chicago (2022); Western Front, Vancouver (2021); The Kitchen, New York (2020); Performa, New York (2019); the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019); Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland (2024, 2018); Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2018); and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2017), among many others. Knight’s work WALL (2014–16) is the first live performance work to enter the permanent collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Knight’s solo exhibitions include Nothing #26: The Potential of Nothing Is Everything at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York (2023); and In Rehearsal at Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois (2017).
Knight is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, honours, and fellowships, including the Artadia Award, Art Matters Grant, Rema Hort Mann Grant, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Art, Guggenheim Fellowship, and most recently, the Trellis Art Fund Grant. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016) and holds a B.A. in Theater Arts from Dillard University and an M.A. in Drama Therapy from New York University.
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Thu, 01 Oct 2026
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