AMANDA KNOWLES
AMANDA KNOWLES
EDUCATION
2001-2002 The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Master of Fine Arts
1999-2001 The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Master of Arts
1989-1993 The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Bachelor of Arts,
Cum Laude, Fine Arts Major, Art History Minor
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL/TEACHING EXPIRENCE
2016-present Co-chair, NSC Art Council, North Seattle College, Seattle, WA
2014-present Director of the North Seattle College ART GALLERY, North Seattle College
Seattle, WA
2007-present Instructor, Printmaking and Drawing, North Seattle College,
Seattle, WA
2022 League for Innovation Excellence Award Recipient, League for
Innovation in the Community College
2017-2022 Washington State Curator Roster, WA State Arts Commission, Olympia,
WA
RESIDENCIES
2024 (Upcoming) Casa Lü, Mexico City, Mexico
(Upcoming) Vashon Artist Residency, Vashon Island, WA
2017-22 Duwamish River Residency, Seattle, WA
2017 Ucross Foundation Residency, Clearmont, WY
Semographics III, Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Atlanta, GA
2016 Guest, Duwamish River Residency, Seattle, WA
2008 Anchor Graphics Residency, Chicago, IL
2005 Clowes Foundation Fellowship for a Vermont Studio Center Residency,
Johnson, VT
2004 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Residency, Omaha, NE
Centrum Creative Residency, Port Townsend, WA
2003 Pleasant Rowland Foundation Fellowship for a Vermont Studio Center Residency,
Johnson, VT
2002 Kala Art Institute Fellowship Artist-in-Residency Award, six-month residency,
Berkeley, CA
GRANTS/HONORS/AWARDS
2019 Finalist, Neddy Artist Award in Painting, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2018 King County Public Art Collection, Seattle, WA
2017 Poetry on Buses Program, Office of Arts & Culture, Seattle, WA
2016 Body of Water Purchase Award – Portable Works Collection, Seattle Public
Utilities, Seattle, WA
2015 GAP Award (Grants for Artist’s Projects), Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
2008 GAP Award (Grants for Artist’s Projects), Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
2007 Purchase Award – Portable Works Collection, City of Seattle, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2005 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award
2005 Travel Grant, Professional Development Assistance Program, Washington State Arts
Commission, Seattle, WA
2004 Purchase Award – Portable Works Collection, City of Seattle, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2004 GAP Award (Grants for Artist’s Projects), Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
2002 Teaching Assistantship, Two-Dimensional Design, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI
2001 Hooper Foundation Scholarship for Printmaking, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI
SOLO AND COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2019 Views & Spatial Extensions, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 Amanda Knowles: New Work, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 Opposing Forces: the collaborative work of Emily Gherard & Amanda Knowles,
Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 Investigation & Determination: Artwork by Amanda Knowles, Johnston Architects,
Seattle, WA
2015 Nescience, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2012 Exposed, Red Rocket Gallery, www.redrocketgallery.com
Luck/Chance, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2011 Intertwined, Shoreline Community College Gallery, Shoreline, WA
2010 Underpinnings, Oliver Gallery, Lied Center for the Arts, Whitworth University,
Spokane, WA
2009 Grids, Circuits & Vertices, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2007 Clustering, Verve, Seattle, WA
Accumulation, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2006 Array, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Aggregation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Hidden Structure, UFM Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 Transposed, Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL
2003 Systematization, Red Rocket Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Projective, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Show, King’s Foot Gallery, Madison, WI
Transcription, Invitational Exhibition, University of Wisconsin – Marathon County,
Wausau, WI
2001 Recent work by Amanda Knowles, Botham Vineyards and Winery, Barneveld, WI
2001 Corresponding Parts, Master of Arts Thesis Show, Common Wealth Gallery,
Madison, WI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 80 Days in August: 10 Years of Duwamish River Artist Residency, AMcE Creative
Arts, Seattle, WA
Screenprint Biennial, Opalka Gallery, Sage College, Albany, NY & Mirabo Press,
Buffalo, NY
Extracurricular III, North Seattle College Art Gallery, North Seattle College,
Seattle, WA
A Social Practice: UW-Madison Alumni Exhibition, Gallery 1308, Union South,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Shown in conjunction
with the 2022 Southern Graphics Conference
2021 OFF THE WALL, J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle WA
G. Gibson Projects, Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Something to Talk About, The Garage Gallery, Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair,
Seattle, WA
In Collaboration: selections from the ZMA Permanent Collection and SGCI Archive,
Mortin Gallery, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
2020 Group Exhibition, The Garage Gallery, Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Contemporary NW Print Invitational 2020, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2019 Beyond Borders/Más Allá de las Fronteras, Instituto de Artes Graficas de Oaxaca,
Oaxaca, Mexico; The Mexican Consulate in Seattle, WA; Mobius Art
Gallery, Cascadia College, Bothell, WA; & M. Rosetta Hunter Art
Gallery, Seattle Central College, Seattle, WA
Inherent Visions: Neddy Finalist Exhibition, curator: Juan Franco, Cornish Playhouse
Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 2018 Screenprint Biennial, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
1 ROOM: A Group Exhibition of Works by studio e gallery and Other Northwest
Artists, Alvalara Hawk Tower, Seattle, WA
Centers of Gravity, Shoreline City Hall, Shoreline, WA
Layers, Sammamish City Hall Commons Gallery, Sammamish, WA
Semographics III: Monoprinting Collaboration, Constellation Studio, Lincoln, NE
2017 Over and Over: An Exhibition about Pattern & Repetition, Glass Curtain Gallery,
Chicago, IL
INTERSTATE, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University,
Ellensburg, WA
Ten + Years of Lake Effect Editions, Palitz Gallery, New York City, NY
My One and Only: Contemporary Monoprints, Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
The Madison Mafia: Prints by Influential Alumni of the University of Wisconsin,
Welch School Galleries, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Uncertainty Principle, Southern Graphics Council International Conference,
Atlanta, GA
2016 American Painting Today, V2 Gallery, Seattle, WA, curated by Matthew Offenbacher
Beyond the Norm: International Print Exhibition, Normal Editions Workshop,
University of Illinois, Normal, IL
Worldbuilding, Portfolio Exhibition, PNCA Atrium, SGCI conference, Portland, OR
Seattle Print Arts – The Print Exchange Decade, ArtReach Gallery, Portland, OR
Imprint One 2016, VAM Gallery, Print Austin 2016, Austin, TX
2015 Extracurricular, North Seattle College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Pigment + Paper, Seattle Print Arts Membership show, Bellevue College,
Bellevue, WA,
2014 East Coast National Screenprint Biennial, Arts Center of the Capital Region,
Troy, NY
Women and Print, Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Ink This! Contemporary Print Arts in the Northwest, Tacoma Art Museum,
Tacoma, WA
NEXT:2014, PrintHouston, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX
West Coast Ink: Printmaking from San Diego to Seattle, University Art Gallery,
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
Altered States, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Communication Breakdown, Red Rocket Gallery, www.redrocketgallery.com
2013 Unframed: Five Artists, A Project Space, Seattle, WA
2012 Dot, Museo Gallery, Langley, WA
2011 Out of the Blue, Strohl Art Center Gallery, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
Segunda Bienal Nacional de Artes Graficas, Sala de Arte Javier Barros Sierra,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Centro Cultural
Acatlan, Acatlan, Mexico
2010 Small Works, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
Segunda Bienal Nacional de Artes Graficas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo,
Colima, Mexico; Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City,
Mexico; & Museo de los Pintores Oaxaquenos, Oaxaca, Mexico
2009 Matrix: Contemporary Printmaking, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts,
Tallahassee, FL
Form and Space: Barbara Robertson and Amanda Knowles, TASTE restaurant,
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
New Work by Gallery Artists, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2008 Seattle: Oaxaca Print Arts Invitational, Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca,
Oaxaca, Mexico
Innovation and Imagination: Work from Kala Art Institute, Seattle Art Museum
Gallery, Seattle, WA
Contemporary Prints, Strohl Art Center Gallery, Chautauqua Institution,
Chautauqua, NY
Convergent Topologies, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
Glue, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
Still Pulling: Traditional Printmaking in the Digital Age, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery,
Detroit, MI
2007 New Work by Gallery Artists, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
Kala Artists’ Annual/Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
8×8, Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Cultivating Creativity: In Residence at Kala, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, CA
Here and Now, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
New Work 2006, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
New Prints 2006/Summer: COLOR, International Print Center New York,
New York, NY
New Prints 2006/Summer: COLOR, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
Crossing Gene, Sun Contemporary Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Visual Alchemy Part II, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005 Fresh Work, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Ink + Paper, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Dialog – Beyond Space, Shenzhen Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
Thirty Something- 3 Decades of Innovative Printmaking, SFMOMA Artists Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
North by Northwest, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2004 Summer Introductions, Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
New Prints 2004/Summer, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
Introduction ’01, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
Laura Berman, Reflections on Color, reflectionsoncolor.com, February 14, 2021
Matthew Kangas, Weldon Butler and Amanda Knowles, Visual Art Source, February 14, 2018.
David Jones, “Printmaking from Here to the Future”, pps. 125-129, California Society of Printmakers: One Hundred Years, 1913-2013, ed. Maryly Snow, California Society of Printmakers, San Francisco, CA, 2013.
Nick Conbere, “Developing the Print Beyond the Press: Interviews with Amanda Knowles, Stephen Funk, and Michael Krueger”, Mid America Print Council Journal, Upcoming 2012/2013.
Nari Kirk, Amanda Knowles Interview, Poetry Northwest Community Page, June 2012
SELECTED VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2020 Abstract Painting Mid-Century + Today: Dr. Marisa Kayyem, Jazz Brown, Sue
Danielson, & Amanda Knowles, Collectors Circle Webinar, Seattle Art Fair,
Seattle, WA
2020 Artist Lecture, Contemporary NW Print Invitational 2020, Davidson Galleries,
Seattle, WA
2015 Conversations with Painters, Susan Christian Project Space/salon Refu,
Olympia, WA
2010 Art meets Science: A Community Discussion on Creativity, Pacific Science Center
and the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2008 Panel discussion, Convergent Topologies, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2007 Demonstrations: Conversations on Math and Art, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Visiting Artist, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY – Worked collaboratively on mixed
media prints for one week with artist Lenore Thomas
2005 Art and Science, Science in Art, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME