Knight is recognized for her performance pieces, which are influenced by her background training in therapy.[3] Often, the works play off the social dynamics of her audiences, amplifying the race, gender, and power relationships in the room. Her work has been described as having an "absurd and comedic effect."[1]
Knight was one of the artists who contributed to Solange's 33-minute music video to her album When I Get Home (2019).[4][5] She is the winner of the 2021–22 Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.[6] Knight is also a recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film-Video.[7]
In January 2020, Knight was part of Artpace's exhibit titled Visibilities: Intrepid Women of Artpace.[23][24] Curated by Erin K. Murphy, Visibilities not only kicks off Artpace's 25th anniversary celebration, but also highlights past artists from their International Artist-in-Residency program, such as Knight who was a resident there in Spring of 2015.[25] Knight's 2017 video entitled Meesh was part of Visibilities.[23]
In July 2020, Knight created a two-hour performance series for The Kitchen in collaboration with artist Adebukola Bodunrin.[26] The performance was streamed live over Twitch due to COVID-19 restrictions. The three segments of the performance explored intersectionality how these dynamics affect artists, institutions, and the art industry in general.[27] In this performance, Knight is depicted being followed by multiple cameras, while the feed is interrupted with security camera footage from inside The Kitchen. She then proceeds to gradually tear down The Kitchen while also giving different speeches to the audience. Reviewer Madeline Seidel praised Knight's performance noting that her "...actions frame The Kitchen as a complex setting: the institutional space is simultaneously described as a 'cage' in which racial, gendered and classist power mechanisms are at play, yet it also provides a blank slate for her artistic exploration of these societal ills."[28]
