David Knox received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005 in addition to studying at the Southeastern Center for the Arts in Atlanta. He was a studio artist at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center from 2006 - 2011 and has been have traveling the backroads of the American South documenting the region’s architectural ruins, landscapes, and people for over 25 years. He has a strong interest in the history of photography and worked in the darkroom for decades specializing in antiquated photo processes before switching to digital work in 2010.
Knox’s current project, Ritual and Ruin, explores such issues as loss, birth, resurrection, race, and religion through the inhabitants of an arcane netherworld set somewhere in the mid 19th century. Created in the realm of historical fiction, these photo collages weave together the disparate, war-ravaged lives of soldiers, civilians, slaves, women, children, and animals by combining historical imagery with Knox’s own photography of the American South.
In 2018 three pieces from this series were chosen to be exhibited in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art as part of the Louisiana Contemporary juried show. His work, The Fall of Leviticus, was awarded the Helis Art Foundation Prize of Best in Show.
Knox has been a photography instructor since 1996 and has taught continuing education classes and workshops since at The Showcase School in Atlanta, The University of Texas in Austin and at The Oklahoma Contemporary. His work has been shown in galleries in Atlanta , New Orleans and throughout the South and he is currently represented by Cole Pratt Gallery in New Orleans.
