Kyle Archie Knight

Kyle Archie Knight (b. 1999) is a Wiradjuri queer photographic artist based in  Naarm/Melbourne. Knight’s keen interest in the mundane and humdrum  suburbia of Naarm resulted in his highly commended long-form and ongoing  project, ‘Cruising for a Bruising’. With this project, he was a finalist (with High  Commendation) in the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2022 GradFoto  exhibition and was later a core program artist in the 10th Ballarat International  Foto Biennale (2023) with a solo exhibition. 

Knight’s recent exhibitions include the landmark ‘Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits’ at RMIT Gallery, ‘de-centre re-centre’ at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery for Perth  Festival, ‘NAIDOC Week’ at MARS Gallery, and ‘New Photographers’ at Daine  Singer Gallery as part of PHOTO 2024. As well as group shows at the Centre for  Contemporary Photography, Spring1883 Art Fair, Melbourne Fringe Festival, and  Unassigned Gallery. In 2024, he was a creative resident at the Centre for  Contemporary Photography, and in 2025 he completed a First Nations led  creative mentorship at Footscray Community Arts.  

Knight’s debut photobook, ‘Cruising for a Bruising’, was published in 2023 by  M.33 and was subsequently shortlisted in the 2024 Australian and New Zealand Photobook Awards.