SILKE OTTO-KNAPP
1970-2022, GermanySilke Otto-Knapp was born in Osnabrück, Germany, and lived in Los Angeles, where she served as professor of painting and drawing at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. She earned an MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, in 1996, and a Degree in Cultural Studies at the University of Hildesheim, Germany, in 1997.
Otto-Knapp has been the subject of solo exhibitions worldwide: Silke Otto-Knapp, Casa Mutina Milano, Italy (2022—2023); Silke Otto-Knapp: In the waiting room, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2020); Bühnenbilder, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2017—2018); Land lies in water, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2015); Monday or Tuesday, Camden Arts Centre, London (2014); Cold Climate, Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2014); Questions of Travel, Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna (2014), Fogo Island Arts, Canada (2014); Geography and Plays, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2013); A light in the moon / MATRIX 239, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2011—2012); Many many women, Kunstverein München (2010); Present Time Exercise, Modern Art Oxford (2009); and 50ft Queenie, Tate Britain, London (2005—2006).
Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions such as Joan Didion: What She Means, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2022—2023), Perez Art Museum, Miami (2023—2024); Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer, Barbican Centre, London (2020—2021), V&A Dundee (2022); and Though it’s dark, still I sing, the 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021).
Otto-Knapp’s work is held in the permanent collections of museums including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Art Institute of Chicago; Belvedere Museum, Vienna; Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (Mudam); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Serralves Foundation, Porto; Tate Modern, London; and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; among others.
Text courtesy Regen Projects
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