Summer Series: Silke Otto-Knapp in Conversation With Helen Molesworth

Silke Otto-Knapp lives and works in Los Angeles where she is Professor for Painting and Drawing at UCLA.  Recent solo exhibitions of her work include “In the waiting room’ at the Renaissance Society in Chicago; ‘Bühnenbilder’ at Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; ‘Land lies in water’ at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; ‘Monday or Tuesday’ at Camden Arts Center, London; ‘Questions of Travel’ at Kunsthalle Vienna and Fogo Island Arts; ‘Geography and Plays’ at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.  She has taken part in the Liverpool Biennial in 2018 , Made in LA 2016 and the Istanbul Biennial in 2006 and exhibited her work in various museums both nationally and internationally. Silke is a member of the Advisory Board of Fogo Island Arts, a residency-based contemporary art venue on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, that supports research and production of new work for artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, curators, designers and thinkers from around the world.