en-ca Katherine Knight (b. 1955)

en-ca Canadian

en-ca "Katherine Knight is recognized for her evocative landscape-based photographic works and documentary films on art and culture. In 2000, Knight received the Duke and Duchess of York Prize from the Canada Council recognizing excellence in Photography. In 2006, she founded Site Media Inc., to create films on artists and creative process in relation to experiences of place. Site Media’s award-winning films have played worldwide through festivals, television broadcast and post-secondary distribution. In 2014, “Strange and Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island,” was awarded Best Canadian Documentary at FIFA, the International Festival of Films on Art. “Spring & Arnaud,” a chronicle of art, love and mortality through the life and work of Spring Hurlbut and Arnuad Maggs, achieved a Top Ten Audience Award at HOT DOCS 2013. KOOP, portraying painter Wanda Koop’s creative process was nominated for the Colin Low Award for Innovation in Canadian Documentary at DOXA 2011. Knight’s photographic works are held in private, public and corporate collections including the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Museum London, Department of Foreign Affairs, Banff Centre for the Arts and The Canada Council Art Bank. Knight is a Professor of Visual Art at York University and previously served as Dean of Fine Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design from 1996-2000."

en-ca Katherine Knight

Artists