Robert Knight
 
Robert Knight works in photography, video, and installation. His projects examine the role of architectural space in shaping individual identity and explore contemporary social issues. He received an MFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and a BA in architecture and economics from Yale University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Danforth Museum of Art in Massachusetts, Jen Bekman Gallery, Light Work and the Munson Museum in New York, the LaGrange Museum in Georgia, The Bascom in North Carolina, the Houston Center for Photography in Texas, and at photography festivals in Nantes, Le Mans, and Arles, France. He is currently professor of art at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY.
 
 
We exist in an age of non-stop hyperactivity. Overloaded by information and saturated with technology, the separation between work-time and leisure-time has dissolved into a blur where neither exists on its own. This extends even into our nights, the most private part of our lives, during which our bodies are meant to sleep, to escape the chaos of our lives, and to recharge in preparation for the next day’s activities. Instead, our nights are broken up by nearby noise and light pollution, and the constant draw of technological updates via television, laptops and smartphones. Sleepless captures my night’s sleep in the various spaces I inhabit at night. The result, captured over a number of years, is a visual diary of my night’s sleep in the various homes, hotel rooms, friends’ guestrooms, and Airbnb apartments that I have slept in over the past decade.
 
 
Untitled (4 hours, June 2, 2016), from the series "Sleepless"
Archival Inkjet Print, 20x24", ed. 1 of 10