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EDUCATION:

1998                   M.F.A.       Painting      American University

1994                   B.F.A.        Painting      Indiana University


SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
 
2026              Growing into the Clouds, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
 
2025              Light Through the Clouds, Ocean House Gallery, South Portland, Maine
 
2022              Wilder Plants, Moss Galleries, Falmouth, Maine
 
2019              Sunlight on Sweet Clover, Elizabeth Moss Galleries, Falmouth, Maine
 
                      Growing at Your Feet: Paintings by John Knight, Maine Audubon,                                          Falmouth, Maine

2016              Some Planted Some Wild, Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, Maine

2013              Wildflowers and Nature's Power, Dana Health Education Center,
                      Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine

2012             Drawing on Wildflowers, Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, Maine

2010             Tidal Nocturne, Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, Maine

2009             Wildflower Compositions, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine

2008             Recent Work by John Knight, Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance offices,                             Portland, Maine

2006             John Knight :  Maine Arts Commission 2007 Fellow in Visual Art
                     Maine State House, Augusta, Maine

2005              Land and Soul, The Clown Gallery, Portland, Maine

2004              Variations on a Thistle, The Via Group, Portland, Maine

2004              Landscapes and Plants, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, The Fine Arts Work                                  Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts

2002              Weeds, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, Maine

1999              Growing: Drawings and Prints by John Knight,
                      Lewis Gallery, Portland Public Library, Portland, Maine

1998              John Knight - Paintings, Prints, and Drawings,
                      The Dumbarton Concert Gallery, Washington D.C.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
 
 
2024               We Are All Sprung From Earth and Water, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine  

                       University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, Maine
 
2023               Springing from Winter, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine 
 
2021               Concurrence, online exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art,                                    Rockland, Maine

2021               Storylines, Gallery 263,  Cambridge, MA

2019              Atmospheric Water, L.C. Bates Museum, Hinkley, Maine
 
                      Come Spring, Page Gallery, Camden, Maine

2018              Summer Stable Show, Maine Farmland Trust, Belfast, Maine

                      Independent Spirit, Dodwell Gallery, Long Island, Maine

2016              Outside and Inside Landscape, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, Maine

                      The Wild Things, Maine Farmland Trust, Belfast, Maine

2014              CMCA Biennial Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
 
                      Monhegan Artists’ Residency - 25 Years, Thomas Moser, Freeport, Maine

2013             Rachel Carson, An Enduring Legacy, George Marshall Store Gallery, 
                     York, Maine

2012             Portes: An Exhibition of Maine Art in Greece, Municipal Gallery of Mytilene                         (Halim Bei), Mytilene, Greece  

2011             Eastern Shores, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY

2010             Art in Embassies Program, US Embassy, Timor – Leste

2009             Above and Below, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine
 
                     New Works 2009, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine

2008             Betwixt and Between: Color, Line, Texture, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art,                                 Ellsworth, Maine (curated by Bruce Brown)

2007             Various Views of Nature, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine

2006             The Carina House Residency : A Gift of Monhegan, Elan Fine Arts,                                       Rockport, Maine

2004             What's the Story? Narrative Art from the Watkins Collection,
                     Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, D.C.

2003             Fine Arts Work Center Visual Fellows, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, NYC

                     Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine


AWARDS:

2015                     Artist's Resource Trust Grant, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation    
2011                      Fellowship, Great Spruce Head Island Art Week, Maine

2006                      Individual Artist Fellowship, Maine Arts Commission

2003                      Winter Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts

1998                       JoAnn Crisp-Ellert Graduate Purchase Prize Award (Recipient through             American University, Washington, D.C.)                                      

1996 -1998            Full fellowship, American University graduate painting program
                                                                                                             


ARTIST RESIDENCIES:

2011                       Great Spruce Head Island Art Week, GSHI, Maine

2003 - 2004            Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts

2002                        Artist in Residence, Acadia National Park, Maine
 
2001                        Carina Residency, Monhegan, Maine

1999                        The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York




PUBLIC ART:

2017                         Musician Mural, Aikido of Maine, Bayside Trail, Portland, Maine

2017                         Botanical Banners, Longfellow Elementary Library, Portland Maine, 2014

2014                         Longfellow Blooms, exterior mural, Longfellow Elementary, Portland Maine, 2014