Vision(es): Artist-led Exhibition Walkthrough: Mark McKnight
Artist Walkthrough | April 9, 2022, 2:00pm PST
This is a past program.
Aqux artist Mark McKnight leads a walkthrough that reflects on the following questions: How and why do we make pictures of home?
About the Walkthrough.
Vision(es) is a series of exhibition walkthroughs staged in conjunction with TMR’s current show, Aqux, that brings together 23 Latinx artists to re-imagine ideas about home and the ways it shapes our sense of personhood. In these walkthroughs, led by artists and other cultural makers, the idea of home is explored through a wide-range of perspectives. For this event in the series, Aqux artist Mark McKnight leads a walkthrough that reflects on the following questions: How and why do we make pictures of home? TMR Executive & Artistic Director César García-Alvarez will engage in conversation with Mark McKnight during this walkthrough.
You can watch the walkthrough HERE
About the Artist.
Mark McKnight received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 and his MFA from UC Riverside in 2015. His work has been written about in the Los Angeles Times, Interview, The New Yorker, GQ Magazine, Aperture, Art in America, Frieze, ArtForum, Brooklyn Rail, Mouse and BOMB Magazine, among others. Mark is the recipient of the 2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize, The 2020 Light Work Photo Book Award, and a 2020 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. His work is in the collection of The Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA) the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA) and The Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA). His first monograph, Heaven is a Prison, was published in September 2020. In 2021, he completed Light Falls, a commission at the Museum of Contemporary, Tucson. Recent solo exhibitions include Kiss of the Sun, Kendall Koppe, Glasgow, UK (2022); Hunger for the Absolute, Park View / Paul Soto, Los Angeles (2021); Hunger for the Absolute, Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York (2021). He currently splits his time between Los Angeles and Albuquerque, where he is an Assistant Professor at The University of New Mexico.
Credits
Vision(es): Artist-led Exhibition Walkthrough: Mark McKnight is organized by TMR and presented in conjunction with Aqux.
Aqux is organized by TMR and curated by César García-Alvarez, TMR Artistic and Executive Director.
TMR's program is made possible with the support of its Board of Directors, Big Mistake Patron Group, International Council, and Contemporary Council.
Image Credit: The Mistake Room. Copyright 2022.