Dominique Knowles


Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Painting and Drawing

Dominique Knowles (Bahamian, b. 1996) lives & works in Chicago, IL. Knowles received both his MFA in Painting as a New Artist Society Award scholar in 2020 & BFA in 2017 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent solo exhibitions include Goldfinch Projects (Chicago, IL), The Green Gallery East (Milwaukee, WI) and The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (Nassau, Bahamas). Knowles has had group exhibitions at Emanuel Layr (Vienna, Austria) hosted by Sperling (Munich, Germany) Popop Studios (Nassau, Bahamas), The Bahamas International Film Festival (Nassau, Bahamas), The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Medulla Gallery (Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago), 14°N 61°W (Martinique), HilgerBROTKunsthalle (Vienna, Austria), Halle 14 (Leipzig, Germany), Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, Illinois), Andrew Rafacz (Chicago, IL), The Packing Plant (Nashville, TN) and Julius Caesar (Chicago, IL). Knowles has participated in residencies at The Suburban (Milwaukee, WI) & Liquid Courage Gallery (Nassau, Bahamas).