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Comprising fourteen photographs—each reproduced as 8 × 10-inch meticulously tri-tone printed, hand-tipped plates—Posthume is a quiet, contemplative body of work. Oversized in format and restrained in scope, the book is both elegy and invocation: a memento mori that gestures towards the old masters, Armijo McKnight’s queer identity, and his Mexican American heritage. Published by TBW Books in an oversized edition of 750, each copy of Posthume is signed by the artist.
Klaus Gallery is pleased to announce that the Whitney Museum of American Art has acquired all 5 photographs and film from Mark Armijo McKnight’s 2024–2025 exhibition Decreation.
(installation image by Ron Amstutz)
Mark Armijo McKnight is exhibiting photographs in TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END, Sky High Farm‘s Inaugural Biennial Exhibition, in Germantown, NY. The show is up through Fall 2025.
Jacinda Tran reviews Mark Armijo McKnight’s 2024 solo show Decreation for ArtReview. Decreation is on view at the Whitney Museum through January 5, 2025.
Mark Armijo McKnight’s exhibition, Mark Armijo McKnight: Decreation, opens at the Whitney Museum in New York City on August 24, 2024. The show, located in the Lobby Gallery, offers new and recent work by Armijo McKnight—including a film—that are part of an ongoing series exploring Simone Weil’s concept of Decreation. The exhibition will run through January 5, 2025. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
Mark Armijo McKnight and Sam Contis are featured in a podcast published by The Carnegie Museum of Art in conjunction with Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape. Hosted by Venus Williams, episode four of the ongoing series deals with the “connections between myth-making and human cognition.” Listen here.
Mark Armijo McKnight and Sam Contis are included in Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The exhibition opens May 11, 2024 and will run through January 12, 2025.
Mark Armijo McKnight is included in a two-person exhibition with Maria Antelman at Outer Space in Concord, NH.
Mark Armijo McKnight is presenting new work in Posthume, a two-part exhibition at Paul Soto Gallery. The exhibition updates the memento mori art historical motif by imbuing it with ambiguity and connecting it to celebrations of the Día de Muertos. The first half of the exhibition is a solo show at Paul Soto’s Los Angeles gallery and is up June 3 through July 22, 2023. The second half juxtaposes McKnight’s work with drawings by the modern Belgian artist James Ensor and will be on view at Paul Soto’s Brussels location June 9 through July 22, 2023.
The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Mark Armijo McKnight a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship for his achievement and potential in the field of photography.
; is a group show curated by Mark Armijo McKnight at Vielmetter in Los Angeles. The show includes work by Etel Adnan, CAConrad, Moyra Davey, Demian Dinéyazhi’, Shannon Ebner, John Giorno, Otis Houston Jr., Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Félix González-Torres, The Song Cave, and Cecilia Vicuña. In the press release, McKnight states that “this exhibition is an invitation to think poetically, or as the great Hannah Arendt suggests: ‘without a banister.'” The show is on view November 19, 2022 through January 7, 2023.
Kiss of the Sun, a solo show featuring work by Mark Armijo McKnight, is on view from April 29 through May 28, 2022 at Kendall Koppe Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland.
Mark Armijo McKnight has an artwork included in Perris, a group show at Tyler Park Presents, on view from February 18 through March 19, 2022.
Cloudy (Spilled Paint and Cigarettes), a photograph by Mark Armijo McKnight, is included in Aqux, a group show at The Mistake Room. The show is up from February 19 – April 23, 2022.
Mark Armijo McKnight generously donates Untitled (Spray Censor II), 2019, to support BOMB Magazine’s 40th Anniversary Gala & Auction. The work is available to purchase on the online Artsy auction.
Mark Armijo McKnight’s series, “Heaven is a Prison” was reviewed in Mousse Magazine by Andrew Berardini.
Mark Armijo McKnight’s solo exhibition, Mark McKnight : Hunger for the Absolute , was reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail by NYC writer Zach Ritter.
Mark Armijo McKnight is showed a new series of large-format cyanotypes as a part of “Working From Home: New Commissions From Tucson”, curated by Laura Copelin, at The Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson. The ran from October 4th through March 21, 2021.
Mark Armijo McKnight has several works in A Time of Monsters, an online exhibition organized by César García-Alvarez at Fort Gansevoort. The exhibition will be on view through July 8, 2020.
Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, presented a conversation between acclaimed writer Garth Greenwell and photographer Mark Armijo McKnight, winner of the 2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize. Greenwell and McKnight spoke about the mystery and beauty of rendering queer life in words and photographs.
Mark Armijo McKnight, winner of the 2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize, is opening at solo show at the Aperture Foundation in New York on Friday November 22nd. The show runs until January 18th, 2019.
Mark McKnight has photographs included in Defining Photographs and Radical Experiments in Inland Southern California, 1950 to Present, at the California Museum of Photography & Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.