Jasper Knight

b. 1978, Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Jasper Knight is a Sydney-based artist. From 2005-2019 Knight has been a finalist in the Archibald prize seven times. He has been a finalist in the Wynne Prize four times, the Sulman prize twice and the Moran prize twice. He was awarded an Australia Council Emerging and Established New Work grant, the Freedman Foundation Scholarship and the Rocks Art Prize. He has also been a finalist in the Blake Prize, The ABN-Amro Prize, The Helen Lempriere, The Brett Whiteley Prize and was the 2008 winner of The Mosman Art Prize. In 2007 he opened Chalk Horse gallery with the generous support of the Australia Council and the City of Sydney. Knight has shown in 2019 in Sydney, Melbourne and at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair. His work is in almost all NSW regional gallery collections, Artbank and the National Gallery of Australia. Jasper Knight is represented by Chalk Horse in Sydney and James Makin Gallery in Melbourne.

His first major book is due at the end of the year published by Thames and Hudson.

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Artworks

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Beneath Berrys Bay

Ghost World

The New Sounds

Deep Sea Vaporeon

Five Windows

Blistering Barnacles

The Joan Sea #1

The Joan Sea #2

The Joan Sea #3

The Joan Sea #4

The Joan Sea #5

The Joan Sea #6

The Joan Sea #7

Ghost World (Detail)

Five Windows (Detail)

Blistering Barnacles (Detail)

Beneath Berrys Bay (Detail)

Emperor's Garden

The Factory Fire

White Noise

When the Wires Come Down

XHT

Elevator Music

White heat 1949

Fire Stair to Nowhere

Swanson Dock

Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads #2

Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads

Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads #4

Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads #5

Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads #6

Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads #7

Spiders #4

Spiders #3

Spiders #5

Study for Swanson Dock I

Study for Swanson Dock II

Swanson Dock

Dymocks 1879

Now You See It

The Upside Down Fire

Bloodline

Niagara

See. Bee. Three. Now We See Three

The Scottish Surfer

The Closer the Knit the Tighter the Fit

Now You See It

Now You See It #2

Now You See It #3

Now You See It #4

Now You See It #5

Now You See It #6

Now You See It #7

Now You See It #8

Rose Bay wharf

Hornby Lighthouse 1858

After the Flood

Macquarie Lighthouse (Study)

The wild mouse (Luna Park)

Leopard Skin Pill Box

Single Origin I

Family Portrait

Alley Oop

Floating boxes

1975 Rolls Royce Corniche Turbo

Port Albert

Small Tug Boat

Endeavour Replica 1988

Clinker

Arctic P

Fishing Boat I

Folk Boat

Grey and yellow truck

Sundays

Flushing Meadows

Stained glass support system

White 1964 Mustang

There's a Great Big Beautiful Day Tomorrow

Ambulance Spring Rocker

Duck Spring Rocker

Horse Spring Rocker

Rabbit Spring Rocker

Racing Car Spring Rocker

Rooster Spring Rocker

'Ten Bells' & 'Dorset Street'

The Commissioner

'Yellow UPS Truck'

'Ten Bells'

'Spit Bridge Control Tower'

'Dorset Street'

'Gladesville Bridge'

Apache

Apache #2

Apache #3

Apache #4

Apache 1, 2, 3, 4.

Apache 1, 2, 3, 4 #2

Apache #5

Apache #6

High Street wharf

Red 1964 Mustang

1964 (study)

Bumble Bee Spring Rocker

'1924 Mack Truck'

Elevator Music #2

Elevator Music #3

Elevator Music #4

Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads

Sinking Funds

CV

Education

1999

Bachelor of Visual Arts, Electronic and Temporal Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney

2003

Master of Arts, Majoring in Painting and Drawing, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020

333 Art Projects Presents: 'Jasper Knight & Amber Boardman' in the Clayton Utz Partnership, Sydney

'The Joan Sea', Chalk Horse, Sydney

2019

'Satellites', The Fringe (Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery) Hong Kong

'White Noise', Chalk Horse, Sydney

'Monochromes', James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

2018

‘Where we’re going we don’t need roads’, Chalk Horse

2017

Bank of America Meryl Lynch, 333 Art Projects

‘Now you see it’ Chalk Horse

2016

‘Little wonder’ Edwina Corlette Galleries

‘In a silent way’ Australian Galleries, Melbourne

Jasper Knight and Clifton Mack-The lighthouse show, Chalk Horse

2015

‘Jumbo kingdom’ Cat Street Gallery Hong Kong

‘Recent works on paper’ Art Stage Singapore, Chalk Horse

‘The ten year storm’ Australian Galleries, Sydney

2014

‘Kurilpa Bridge’ Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

‘Survey show 2003-12’ Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW

2013

‘One piece at a time’ Black art projects Modena, Italy ‘Survey show 2003-2012’ Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW, ‘Survey show 2003-12’ Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW

Solo presentation Sydney Contemporary Booth D142 Australian Galleries, Sydney

2012

‘Survey show 2003-2012’, Shoalhaven Regional Art Gallery, Nowra, NSW

‘Know your enemy’, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW

‘Total Recall’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

‘Survey show 2003-2012’, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn, NSW

2011

‘Recent Work’, Australian High Commission, Singapore

‘North by Northwest’, Greenhill Galleries, Perth

‘Roll-on Roll-off’, Metro Gallery, Melbourne

‘Metal on Metal’, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW

‘Sydney Boat Show’, Chalk Horse, Sydney

‘The Fast and the Furious’, Muk Muk Fine Art, Alice Springs, NT

2010

‘There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow’, Chalk Horse, Sydney

‘Lost Highway’, Greenhill Galleries, Perth

‘Road Trip’, BMGArt, Adelaide

2009

‘Spring Rockers’, Chalk Horse, Sydney

‘Hunters & Gatherers: Works on Paper, Prints & Collages’, Cosa Gallery, London, UK

‘It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief’, Metro Gallery, Melbourne

2008

‘Apache’, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW

‘Interior Disasters’, Greenhill Galleries, Perth

‘Apache’, Chalk Horse, Sydney

‘Skytrain’, BMGArt, Adelaide

2007

Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne

‘Plattenbau’, Greenhill Galleries, Perth

‘Tidemark/Thames Series’, Cosa Gallery, London, UK

‘Dashanzi’, Chalk Horse, Sydney

2006

‘An Island in the Sun’, Cosa Gallery, London, UK

‘Primary’, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne

2005

‘One to One’, Phatspace, Sydney

2004

‘There were three in the bed and the little one said’, Sherman Artbox, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

‘Driftwood’, MOP Projects, Sydney

‘Autumn, mk17 Window Boxes’, NSW Government Architect’s Office, Sydney

2003

‘Inner Sydney’, The Australia Centre, Australian Consulate, Manila, Philippines

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2020

'These Days' (curated by Sebastian Goldspink), COMA, Sydney

2019

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Sydney Contemporary, James Makin Gallery

2015

Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

2014

‘Salon des refuses’ S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney

2013

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

Adelaide Festival Show Todd Hunter & Jasper Knight BMG gallery, Adelaide

2012

‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

‘Art in Unusual Places’, Art and About, Sydney

Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

‘Reload – Contemporary Landscape’, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW

2011

‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2010

‘Chalk Reindeer’, Chalk Horse, Sydney ‘Opening Show’, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

‘Shanghart’, Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China

Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

2009

‘Chalk Reindeer’, Chalk Horse, Sydney

‘Salon des Refusés’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

‘Smoking Guns’, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, China 2008

‘Chalk Reindeer’, Chalk Horse, Sydney

‘Salon des Refusés’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Mosman Art Prize (Winner), Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

‘Abundant Australia’, Australian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy

Art Sydney: Sydney’s Affordable Art Fair, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney

2008

Mosman Art Prize (Winner), Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

2007

‘Memento Mori’, Blk/Mrkt Gallery, Brisbane

‘Underscore’, Josetti Hoffe Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

‘Freedman Foundation Show’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

2006

‘Art and About’, Customs House Forecourt, Sydney

‘No Direction Home’, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China

National Association for Visual Arts (NAVA) Marketing Grant, Sydney

Australia Council for the Arts (OZCO), New Work Grant Established (Painting), Sydney

Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

‘Cutting Fields: Collage in the 21st Century’, First Draft, Sydney

2005

‘The Year in Art’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

The Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship, Brett Whitley Studio, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Art on the Rocks Prize (Winner), Rocks Visitors Centre, Sydney

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Freedman Foundation Scholarship for Emerging Artists (Winner), Sydney

2004

National Association for Visual Arts (NAVA) Marketing Grant, Sydney

Australia Council for the Arts (OZCO), New Work Grant Emerging (Painting), Sydney

‘One of (Festivus)’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney ABN-AMRO Emerging Artist Prize, Aurora Place, Sydney

2003/4

Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney

2003

‘Christmas Show’, MOP Projects, Sydney Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney

Blake Prize, Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney

2002

‘Slacking Off’, Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney

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Residencies & Projects

2017

333 Projects, Bank of America Survey Show

2013

One Piece at a time, Auto Dromo di Modena F3 Racetrack. Italy

2012/3

Touring show Goulburn Regional Gallery/Bathurst Regional Gallery/Maitland Regional gallery/Shoalhaven City Arts Centre

2012

Art&About Friendly Billboards with Isabelle Toland, Sydney

2009

The IKEA Home Project, The Klippan Sofa, Sydney

2007

Residency at Josetti Höfe Studios, Berlin, Germany

2006

Residency at Red Gate Gallery Studios, Beijing, China

2005

Art&About Dino Project, Customs House forecourt , Sydney

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Collections

Artbank

Australian Consulate, Makati, Manila, Philippines

Australian Consulate, Singapore

Goulburn Regional Gallery, Goulburn, NSW

Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, NSW

Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW

Maitland Regional Gallery, NSW

Macquarie University

Bond University

Sydney University

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Newcastle Region Gallery, Newcastle, NSW

New South Wales State Government, Sydney

The Germanos Collection

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Jasper Knight

Artworks

CV

The Joan Sea

Elevator Music

Sydney Contemporary 2018 - Carriageworks

Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads

Art Central Hong Kong 2018 - Stand E11

Sydney Contemporary: Booth A02 Carriage Works

Art Stage Jakarta 2017: Stand B11

Now You See It

Art Central Hong Kong Stand:E12

Jasper Knight and Clifton Mack

Scope Miami Beach

Domestic Departures

Bathysphere

GROUP SHOW: Come Together

We have moved to a new premises!

Melbourne Art Fair (2010)

There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

Spring Rockers

Chalk Reindeer 2008

The Commissioner

Apache