– CV

Devon Knowles
b. 1977, London, Canada
Lives and works in Guelph, Canada

Education

  • 2008 Master of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
  • 2001 Bachelor of Arts, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

  • 2022 Gone and Going, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2018 Emily Hermant, Devon Knowles, The Bakery, Vancouver, Canada 
  • 2015 MPB Umwelt, Off Lomas, Albuquerque, USA
  • 2014 We put them there, but they had other things to do, Or Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 2012 Drifter, The Crying Room, Vancouver, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2025 Slow Looking, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2022 Kids Take Over, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2021 Still Life, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2020 Wayfinding, Art Gallery at Evergreen, Coquitlam, Canada 
  • 2019 Leave the Window Open, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2017 Kitchen Midden, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, Canada
  • 2015 Geometry of Knowing, Simon Fraser University Galleries, Burnaby, Canada
  • 2014 Black Diamond Dust, Nanaimo Art Gallery; Nanaimo Museum, Nanaimo, Canada
    Vernissage, Kunsthalle Kühlungsborn, Kühlungsborn, Germany
  • 2013 I.O.U., UNIT/PITT, Vancouver, Canada
    Properties, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada 
  • 2011 Womb-Womb Room, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • 2010 It Knows Not What It Is, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
    Imprint, Vanderstradt, Holbaek, Denmark
    Saturday is the New Sunday, Every Letter in the Alphabet, Vancouver, Canada
    The New Paradigm, The Pavilion, Langara College, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2009 Enacting Abstraction, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada 
  • 2008 Reskilling, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
    In the diagram below, line AB and line GH intersect at point D, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
    Rough House, Ministry of Causal Living, Victoria, Canada
    Residency Exhibition, Open Space, Victoria, Canada 
  • 2007 Staring Therapy, Space 1026, Philadelphia, USA
    Production Studios, 870 East Cordova Street, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2006 Double Base, HQ, Brooklyn, USA
    Gifts by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada 
  • 2005 Generating An Alternative Night-Time Mobility, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada

Selected Books and Exhibition Catalogues

  • 2022 Densie Ryner, ed., Underneath the Walking Speaking Spectrum, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada  
  • 2017 Jesse Birch, ed., Black Diamond Dust, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, Canada; Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany

Magazines and Periodicals

  • 2025 Mitch Speed, ‘Slow Looking’, Border Crossings 168, September
  • 2022 ‘“We’re All Tied to the Place That We’re From”: Celebrating 50 Years with Equinox Gallery’, MOMUS, 22 December 
  • 2019 Mitch Speed, ‘Unequal Planes: Vancouver’s Architectural Clash of Ideal and Real’, MOMUS, 5 November 
  • 2016 ‘Alive and Buried’, Bohart Magazine, March/April
  • 2015 Jasdeep Gakhal and Hannah Urqhart, ‘An Artwalk to Remember’, The Peak, 4 January 
  • 2015 Lorna Brown, ‘Near As Far As Far As Near’, SFU Community Trust Catalogue
  • 2014 Michael Turner, ‘Black Diamond Dust: Industry and Labour’, Canadian Art, 8 October
  • 2014 Alexandra Phillips, ‘Canadian Artists and the Berlin Experience’, C Magazine 122, Summer
  • 2013 Jared Baxter, ‘Night Terrors’, Art Slant, 17 January 
  • 2008 Robin Laurence, ‘Contemporary artists get crafty and subversive at Reskilling’, The Georgia Straight, 18 December

Artist’s Books

  • 2024 Devon Knowles, Heard About a Place One Day, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada

Public and Commissioned Works

  • 2021 Walking Spectrum, City of Vancouver Public Art Collection, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2021 Lily-Tree, City of Richmond Public Art Collection, Richmond, Canada
  • 2020 Waterways, District of North Vancouver Public Art Collection, North Vancouver, Canada
  • 2015 Total Running Time, Bosa Properties, Burnaby, Canada
  • 2014 Near as Far as Far as Near, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
  • 2004 Light House, site-responsive installation, Toronto, Canada

Teaching Appointments

  • 2023– University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada; Area Head, Sculpture
  • 2015–2023 Langara College, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2010–2016 Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada

Residencies

  • 2020 Digital Residency, Mayer of Munich, Munich, Germany
  • 2018 Women’s Woodshop, Minneapolis, USA
  • 2014 Mecklenburg Inspiriert Residency, Kühlungsborn, Germany
  • 2010 Solyst Artist in Residency, Jyderup, Denmark

Awards

  • 2023 COA Faculty Research Seed Fund, COA Research Advisory Counsel, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
  • 2015 Mayor’s Arts Awards, Emerging Artist in Public Art, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2007 Jesse Allen Forsythe Award, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada