Silke Otto Knapp

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Curated by Anne Collier

Silke Otto Knapp
Yellow Shoes
2008
watercolor on canvas
30" x 25"

Courtesy of the artist

Lot #L22

Retail value: $4000
Starting bid: $1,400


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Artist's Biography

Silke Otto-Knapp holds a Masters of Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in Chelsea and a Degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Hildesheim in Germany. Her solo exhibitions include Winterlong at the Overduin and Kite Gallery in Los Angeles (2009), Rehearsal in Yellow at greengrassi in London (2007), and Quartets at the Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Cologne (2007).  She has also been featured in a number of group shows including the most recent modernmodern at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York (2008), pleinairism at i8 in Reykjavik (2008), and Rendez-Vous Nowhere at the Montehermoso Cultural Center in Vitoria (2008). Originally from Germany, Silke Otto-Knapp resides and works in London.

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Curator's Biography

Anne Collier was born in Los Angeles and is currently based in New York. She received her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (1993) and her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2001). Her current solo exhibitions include Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, England, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, and Marc Foxx, Los Angeles. She has also exhibited in group shows including Group Exhibition, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2009), Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2008), A New High In Getting Low, John Connelly Presents, New York (2008), Group Exhibition, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles (2008), and Two Years, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007). In 2010 she will have a solo exhibition with Anton Kern Gallery, New York, Corvi-Mora, London, and Kemper Museum, Kansas City. She is currently a visiting faculty member at CCA, San Francisco since 2002.