
Art Institute of Chicago
Mirror Series
John Knight · 1986
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold through Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, to Harvey and Lise Hoshour, Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 27, 1987 [invoice; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 30, 2025.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, John Knight MCMLXXXVI, Nov. 18–Dec. 6, 1986, no cat. no.
- Villeurbanne, France, Nouveau Musée Villeurbanne, JK: treize travaux, Nov. 25, 1989–Feb. 18, 1990, no cat. no.; Rotterdam, Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art (now Kunstinstituut Melly), Apr. 7–May 20, 1990, as Mirror.
- New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, 30/40: A selection of forty artists from thirty years at Marian Goodman Gallery, Part I, Sept. 10–Oct. 13, 2007, cat. 43.
- Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, Sept. 23, 2009–Jan. 17, 2010, no cat. no.; Warsaw, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Feb. 12-Apr. 5, 2010, as Mirror.
Literature
Published references
- Marian Goodman Gallery, John Knight MCMLXXXVI, exh. cat. (New York: Marian Goodman Gallery, 1986), 12 (ill.), as Mirror Series.
- Anne Rorimer and B. H. D Buchloh, JK: treize travaux: le Nouveau Musée, exh. cat. (Villeurbanne: Nouveau Musée Villeurbanne, 1989), 14, 16 (color ill.), 17, 38, 39 (color ill.), 40-42.
- B. H. D. Buchloh, 30/40: A Selection of Forty Artists from Thirty Years at Marian Goodman Gallery, exh. cat. (New York: Marian Goodman Gallery, 2007), 190 (color ill.), 220, cat. 43, as Mirror Series.
- Sabine Breitwieser, ed., Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, exh. cat. (Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2009), 129, 130-131 (color ill.), 235, as Mirror.
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