Karla Knight

Karla Knight (b. 1958, New York, NY) lives and works in Redding, CT. Her work has been exhibited widely, recently in Once Within a Time, the 12th SITE Santa Fe International, curated by Cecilia Alemani (2025–26), and Transe at Gomide & Co., São Paulo. Her first solo museum exhibition, Navigator, was held at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT (2021–22). It was accompanied by a monograph with text by Amy Smith-Stewart; a second edition, with an essay by Cassie Packard, was published in 2023. Recent solo exhibitions also include Orbit (2026) and Universal Remote (2023) at Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, which represents the artist. 

Knight's work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among others. She has received fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo, as well as two Connecticut Artist Fellowships. She received her BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1980.