About

Cimarron Knight is an artist, writer, and educator based on the west coast of Canada. Her practice spans a multidisciplinary intersection of visual art, spatial design, digital, and traditional craft processes that explore the in-between elements of life. She actively seeks connection to self, human, and more-than-human worlds through embodied performative acts, somatic relationships to materials, creative writing, and experimental time related processes that include video and sound. These form a deep listening practice she’s been developing that explores transitional states of existence between loss and transformation. Knight symbolically utilizes the burial shroud and shadows as signifiers of life and death, absence and presence of the body, time, and impermanence. The exchange between audience and artifact and the resulting tensions between body, object, and space inform her work.

Knight holds a Master in Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria. She has works in the permanent collections of the Kamloops Art Gallery, Nanaimo Art Gallery, and private collections in Canada, the USA, and South Africa. She has been a recipient of several grants and awards including a VIURAC Innovate grant and Emily Carr University of Art + Design 2023/24 Future Creative Catalysts Graduate Research Fellowship award.

I acknowledge I live and work on the traditional unceded territories of the Snuneymuxw, Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish Nations (Nanaimo and Vancouver). I value this place I call home and am grateful for the many more-than-human beings I encounter in my daily routines.