RAINEN KNECHT

Lives and works in Portland, Oregon

EDUCATION

2006 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025  Forthcoming: Alive with Pleasure!,at Et Al, San Franciso, CA

2025 Bride of the Far Side,  Post-Times, New York City, NY

2024 Portland Biennial, 2024, Portland Oregon, curated by Jackie Im and Anuradha Vikram

2024      Rare Alchemy with Michael Berryhill, Resident Assistant Gallery, Great Barrington, MA 

2022 Total Catastrophe Living, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR

2022 PLATFORM, Two Person (online) exhibition with Gustav Hamilton, Zoe Fisher Projects, NY, NY

2021       R U My Mother, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR

2018 Daydream of Darkness with Nicola L, SITUATIONS, New York, NY

2017 Attitude Problem, CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA

2017 Earth Alien, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR

2015 Crazy Arms, CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Bride of the Far Side, Post-Times, New York City, NY

2025 SURPRISE!, Et Al, San Francisco, CA

2024 Portland Biennial, 2024, Portland Oregon, curated by Jackie Im and Anuradha Vikram

2023 Living in a Wiggly World, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA

2022 Choose your Fighter, Marvin  Gardens , Ridgewood, NY

Bananas, Helens Costume, Portland, OR

The Views II, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, CA

2021       Run with Wolves , The Pit, Los Angeles, CA

Pale Blue Dot, Left Field, Los Osos, CA

Bumpy Road, Helens Costume, Portland, OR

Burnt Offerings, Vulcan Materials Gallery , ASFA, Birmingham, AL

2020 Home, Drawer, New York, NY

The Essential Goods Show, Zoe Fisher Projects, New York, NY

Turn back! Turn back!, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA

Psithurism, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

2019       A Good Way to Invent the Future, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR

Downward Flower, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR 

2018 Chimera, Fisher Parrish, Brooklyn, NY

2017        NADA Miami Beach with Capital, San Francisco, CA

Hecate, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA

Geranium, curated by Adrianne Rubenstein, Stems Gallery, Brussels, BE

Metal Heart, Lowell, Portland, OR

2016 NADA Miami Beach with CAPITAL, Miami Beach, FL

PMOMA Houseguest Courthouse Square, Portland, OR

Milk of the Poppy, CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA

Faces & Vases, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA

2013 SF Art Fair, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA

NADA Miami Beach with Queens Nails Annex, Miami Beach, FL

2012 The Bold Italic, Los Angeles, CA; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA

Staff Exhibition, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA

2010 Today, MCCLA, San Francisco, CA

Paper Awesome, curated by Brion Nuda Rosch, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA

2008 The Optimistic, Rainen Knecht & Christopher Baird, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA

AWARDS

2026    Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission & Ford Family Foundation

2022    Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission & Ford Family Foundation

2021    Hallie Ford Fellowship in the Visual Arts

2017 Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission

2006 Painting Honors, San Francisco Art Institute

2005 Madjrakoff Painting Award, San Francisco Art Institute

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2020 Interview with Lindsay Costello, Art and About PDX

2018 Review; Rainen Knecht's Painted Ladies Have a Devilishly Fun 'Attitude Problem’, kqed.org

2020 Artmaze, Winter Issue #16