Emeritus
Home Page:http://www.wfu.edu/~knott/

Robert Knott is Professor Emeritus of Art at Wake Forest University where he taught courses in modern and contemporary art from 1975-2008. Prior to that he taught at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. He holds an A.B. degree in studio art from Stanford University, a Masters in art history from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Pennsylvania. At Wake Forest he was Director of the Worrell House program in London in 1980 and 1993 and Director of Casa Artom in Venice in 2002. He was also visiting Professor of Art History in the Graduate Program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (1986). He is author of articles and essays on a wide range of artists including Monet, Braque, Kandinsky, Klee and Rothko. He has curated numerous exhibitions including Diving in the Spirit (African American self-taught artists) and American Abstract Art of the 1930s and 1940s (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. N.Y., 1998). He continues to be a practicing artist and has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include a one-man exhibition of photographs, “Venice: The Laundry Series, 2002-2005” at the Fondazione Culturale Spiazzi , Venice, Italy in 2005 and a retrospective exhibition, “Robert Knott: Sculpture/Drawings/Photographs, 1980-2008” at the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, February/March, 2008..

Window on Wake Forest Article  about Dr. Knott's Retrospective Show 3/2008