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 Experience
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
Gallery Representation
G. Gibson Projects, Seattle, WA
Guthrie Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
Residencies
2024 (Upcoming) Casa Lü, Mexico City, Mexico
2024 (Upcoming) Vashon Artist Residency, Vashon Island, WA
2017-2022 Duwamish River Residency, Seattle, WA
2017 Ucross Foundation Residency, Clearmont, WY
2017 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
2004 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
2012 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
2007 Accumulation, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2006 Array, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Aggregation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2006 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
2002 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
2022 2022 Screenprint Biennial, Opalka Gallery, Sage College, Albany, NY & Mirabo Press, Buffalo, NY
2022 Extracurricular III, North Seattle College Art Gallery, North Seattle College, Seattle, WA
2022 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
2021 A Selection of Works (Online exhibit), G. Gibson Projects, Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair, Seattle, WA
2021 Something to Talk About, The Garage Gallery, Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair, Seattle, WA
2021 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
2020 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
2019 Inherent Visions: Neddy Finalist Exhibition, curator: Juan Franco, Cornish Playhouse Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 2018 Screenprint Biennial, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
2018 1 ROOM: A Group Exhibition of Works by studio e gallery and Other Northwest Artists, Alvalara Hawk Tower, Seattle, WA
2018 Centers of Gravity, Shoreline City Hall, Shoreline, WA
2018 Layers, Sammamish City Hall Commons Gallery, Sammamish, WA
2018 Semographics III: Monoprinting Collaboration, Constellation Studio, Lincoln, NE
2017 Over and Over: An Exhibition about Pattern & Repetition, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 INTERSTATE, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
2017 Ten + Years of Lake Effect Editions, Palitz Gallery, New York City, NY
2017 My One and Only: Contemporary Monoprints, Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2017 The Madison Mafia: Prints by Influential Alumni of the University of Wisconsin, Welch School Galleries, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2017 Uncertainty Principle, Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Atlanta, GA
2016 American Painting Today, V2 Gallery, Seattle, WA, curated by Matthew Offenbacher
2016 Beyond the Norm: International Print Exhibition, Normal Editions Workshop, University of Illinois, Normal, IL
2016 Worldbuilding, Portfolio Exhibition, PNCA Atrium, SGCI conference, Portland, OR
2016 Seattle Print Arts – The Print Exchange Decade, ArtReach Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Imprint One 2016, VAM Gallery, Print Austin 2016, Austin, TX
2015 Extracurricular, North Seattle College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 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
2014 Women and Print, Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2014 Ink This! Contemporary Print Arts in the Northwest, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2014 NEXT:2014, PrintHouston, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX
2014 West Coast Ink: Printmaking from San Diego to Seattle, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
2014 Altered States, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 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
2011 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
2010 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
2009 Form and Space: Barbara Robertson and Amanda Knowles, TASTE restaurant, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2009 New Work by Gallery Artists, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2008 Seattle: Oaxaca Print Arts Invitational, Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
2008 Innovation and Imagination: Work from Kala Art Institute, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 Contemporary Prints, Strohl Art Center Gallery, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
2008 Convergent Topologies, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2008 Glue, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 Still Pulling: Traditional Printmaking in the Digital Age, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit, MI
2007 New Work by Gallery Artists, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2007 Kala Artists’ Annual/Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2007 8×8, Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Cultivating Creativity: In Residence at Kala,Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006 Here and Now, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 New Work 2006, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2006 New Prints 2006/Summer: COLOR, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
2006 New Prints 2006/Summer: COLOR, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
2006 Crossing Gene, Sun Contemporary Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 Visual Alchemy Part II, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005 Fresh Work, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2005 Ink + Paper, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 Dialog – Beyond Space, Shenzhen Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
2005 Thirty Something- 3 Decades of Innovative Printmaking, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 North by Northwest, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2004 Summer Introductions, Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 New Prints 2004/Summer, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
2004 Introduction ’01, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Press/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, W
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