About

Cimarron Knight is an artist, writer, and educator based on the west coast of Canada within the unceded traditional territories of the Snuneymuxw, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her practice spans an interdisciplinary intersection of visual art, spatial design, digital, and contemporary craft processes that explore the transient elements of life. Through drawing and painting, photography, installation, video, sound, performance, and textiles, she investigates themes of impermanence, gendered craft, and material labour.

Knight was raised rurally on sixteen acres in the woods during the back-to-the-land movement, and in her later teens she lived on a remote Gulf Island. This upbringing instilled in her a respect and connection to nature that continues to influence her creative and daily practices. She actively seeks connection to self, human, and more-than-human worlds through embodied acts, somatic engagement with materials, creative writing, and experimental time-based media. Central to her practice is a form of deep listening that investigates the in-between states of loss and transformation. Knight uses symbolic imagery such as burial shrouds and shadows to evoke themes of absence and presence, time, impermanence, and being suspended in a state of becoming. The exchange between audience and artifact and the resulting tensions between body, object, and space inform her work.

She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria and a Master in Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Kamloops Art Gallery, Vancouver Island University View Gallery, and private collections in Canada, the USA, and South Africa. Knight 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, work, and create 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.