How do I meet the gaze of another matter-machine?
There and here borders cut between different ways of being a life form. I, with my silhouette: without becoming a tree I dare to rest here beneath the tree. This endless faith in rims, edges, cutting points and the loyalty of objects. With an endless trust in the silhouettes, in that the straps and cuts, the stitches will hold things in place.
Out of a trust in matter.
In this exact light. In this temporarily prevailing landscape.
– Aase Berg
Installation view, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, 2020
Burned Map (or: Body), 32 x 40 inches, Gelatin silver print, 2019
Violence, 11 x 14 inches, Gelatin silver print, 2019
Installation view, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, 2020
The Black Place, 40 x 50 inches, Gelatin silver print, 2019
Installation view, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, 2020
His Birth (or: Black Egg), 20 x 24 inches, Gelatin silver print, 2019
Untitled, 24 x 30 inches, Gelatin silver print, 2019
Mark Armijo McKnight (b. Los Angeles, CA) is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and written about in The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Interview, GQ, Aperture, Art in America, Frieze, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Mousse, and BOMB, among others. His work is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ICA Miami, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Henry Art Gallery, and the Columbus Museum of Art.
His first monograph, Heaven Is a Prison, was published in 2020, followed by Posthume, published by TBW Books in 2025. Armijo McKnight is a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of the 2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize, the 2020 Light Work Photo Book Award, a 2020 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, and a 2023–24 Guggenheim Fellowship.
He is Assistant Professor of Expanded Photography at Rutgers University.
Represented by Klaus von Nichtssagend (New York)
Posthume (2025) published by TBW Books
Heaven is a Prison (2020) published by Loose Joints