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Stephen Knudsen

Painting professor

Education

  • M.F.A., painting, Savannah College of Art and Design
  • B.S., biology, Pacific Lutheran University

Credentials

  • Professor, painting, 1993–present
    Crew (Rowing) Coach, 1989–2007
    Professor, foundation studies, 1992–1993, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Instructor, 1986–1990, Metro Christian High School, St. Louis, MO

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Game of Waste was accepted into the Los Angeles Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, co-director and producer, 2016
  • Sabbatical Award, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2015
  • Received NEA funding for the exhibition "Regarding the Sublime," October 2013 CCBC Catonsville, Gallery Q, Baltimore, 2013
  • Received stipend to work as a panel judge for The Arkansas Council of the Arts, 2012
  • Recipient of Presidential Art Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., 2003
  • Nominated as the National C.A.S.E. Foundation teacher of the year, 2002
  • National Dean's List, 1992
  • Propes Graduate Scholarship, 1992
  • Propes Graduate Scholarship, 1991

Publications and presentations

Presentations

  • Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, 20th anniversary celebration, May, 2014
  • FLAG Conference, St. Augustine, Fla., May 2014.
  • TRAC Symposium Panelist, "Beauty and Representational Painting," April 2013, Los Angeles.
  • Is Representational Painting Ready to Take on Metamodernism Without Cliché? /The Painting of Bo Bartlett, TRACConference, October 2012, Ventura, Calif.
  • The Knudsen Dual Color Wheel, AEF Conference 2011, Savannah, Ga.
  • The Fourth Dimension of Color and the Dual Wheel, SECAC Conference 2011, Savannah, Ga.
  • Taxonomy of Critique, SCAD Museum of ART, TADTAD lecture, March 2012.
  • Practical Aesthetics for the 21st Century, SECAC Conference 2010, Richmond, Va.

Publications

  • "The Art of Critique/Re-imagining Professional Art Criticism and The Art School Critique," introduction by James Elkins, Artium publishing, 2018.
  • "Reimagining Metamodernity and Metamodernism: Faith and Doubt From the Invention of the End of the World to the Potential Inhuman," Artium publishing, 2019.
  • "A Conversation with Jon Fields," ARTPULSE magazine, Summer 2016.
  • "Beyond Postmodernism Revisited," ARTPULSE magazine, Winter 2016.
  • "A Conversation with Ben Degen," ARTPULSE magazine, #24, Fall 2015.
  • "For the Love of Painting/A Conversation with Julie Heffernan," ARTPULSE magazine, #22, Spring 2015.
  • "A Conversation with Kendall Buster," ARTPULSE magazine, #21, Winter 2014.
  • "A Conversation with Peter Drake," ARTPULSE magazine, #20, Fall 2014.
  • "Summer Wheat: Deferral of a Vanguard," ARTPULSE magazine, #19, Summer 2014.
  • "Relevance of a 21st Century Expressionist," ARTPULSE magazine, #18, Spring 2013.
  • "Ph.D. in Philosophy for Artists/A Conversation with George Smith," ARTPULSE magazine, #17, Winter 2013.
  • "Levitated Mass/Considering the Kantian Sublime in Three Acts: Notes on Metamodernism," co- authored with James Elkins, Tim Vermeulen, and Robin Van den Akker.
  • "Top Ten Contemporary Art Exhibits in 2013," The Huffington Post, Jan. 2, 2014.
  • "Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Creatures," The Huffington Post, Dec. 31, 2013.
  • "The Multiple Realities of Other Worlds of Art," The Huffington Post, Dec. 23, 2013.
  • "From the Studio-Based Ph.D. to the Kantian Sublime/A Conversation with James Elkins," ARTPULSE magazine, Fall 2013.
  • "Loaded Painting/A Conversation with Li Songsong," ARTPULSE magazine, Fall 2013.
  • "Laura McPhee/River of No Return," The Huffington Post, June 6, 2013.
  • "From Pasture to Gallery/Henry Moore: Late Large Forms," The Huffington Post, June 6, 2013.
  • "Levitated Mass/Worth a Second Look," The Huffington Post, May 9, 2013.
  • "Wisdom of the Crowd/Ten More Characters You'll Often Meet in a Critique," ARTPULSE magazine, Fall 2013.
  • "Robert Hughes/Death of a Legendary Art Critic," ARTPULSE magazine, Fall 2012.
  • "Paintings of Home/Bo Bartlett," 2012 SECAC Review journal, 2012.
  • "The Poetic Grit of a Landscape Painter and an Outspoken Critic/Lois Dodd and Robert Hughes," Hyperallergic, November 2012.
  • "Beyond Postmodernism/Putting a Face on Metamodernism Without the Easy Clichés." ARTPULSE magazine, Winter 2013.

Exhibitions

  • Game of Waste, Los Angeles Hollywood Reel, 2016
  • Between the Clock and the Bed, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 2015
  • Regarding the Sublime, CCBC Catonsville, Gallery Q, Baltimore, 2013
  • Seven Days, Invitational Venue, Tampa, 2011
  • Form and Context Two, Savannah ASA H Gordon Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2011
  • Form and Context One, Highpoint, N.C., 2011
  • Why Go Anywhere Else? Contemporary Art Centre of Montenegro, Petrovic Castle, Podgorica, Montenegro, 2010
  • Why Go Anywhere Else? Modern Gallery Budva, Montenegro, 2010
  • Why Go Anywhere Else? Gallery Josip Bepo Benkovic Herceg Novi, Serbia, 2010
  • Why Go Anywhere Else? Kod Homena Gallery Kotor, Serbia, 2010
  • Why Go Anywhere Else? Vojvodina Contemporary Art Museum, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2010
  • deFine Art, River Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2009
  • This Gift, Red Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2005
  • Decade—A Retrospective Stephen Knudsen, Bergen Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2003
  • Selected Works, Broome Gallery, New York, 2000
  • Fruits from the Garden of Savannah, The New Century Gallery, Jian Cultural Center, Shanghai, 1997
  • Fruits from the Garden of Good and Evil, LKF Gallery, Hong Kong, 1997
  • Fruits from the Garden of Good and Evil, Olympic Celebration Exhibition, New Vision Space, Tula Arts Center, Atlanta, 1996
  • Fruits from the Garden of Good and Evil, The Gallery in Cork Street, London, 1996
  • Dreams and Visions, Exhibition A Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 1994