BOB BICKNELL-KNIGHT

Bob Bicknell-Knight (b. 1996, Ipswich, United Kingdom), based in Tallinn, Estonia and Ipswich, United Kingdom.

Biography

Bob Bicknell-Knight (b. 1996, Ipswich, United Kingdom) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator working with digital media to produce films, paintings, sculptures and installations. His practice explores ideas surrounding time, control and degradation, with a particular interest in the underlying mechanics of video game worlds and power structures that proliferate online and in new forms of technology. Bicknell-Knight is influenced and inspired by our pre-apocalyptic present, climate collapse, virtual worlds and 24/7 hyper-capitalism.

Bicknell-Knight is currently enrolled at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) in Tallinn, Estonia, undergoing a Masters in Contemporary Art (2024 – 2027). During this time he is continuing to expand upon recent projects, digging deeper into the philosophy and minutiae behind the production of games whilst broadening his own reflections and knowledge regarding loss, decay and societal collapse in relation to the climate crisis.

Bicknell-Knight is also the founder and director of isthisit?, a platform for art that’s specialised mainly in digital art since its creation in May 2016, and has worked with hundreds of artists since its inception. Through the platform he curates online and offline exhibitions, hosts an infrequent residency programme and has designed and edited a series of books, focusing on a number of broad themes from contemporary modes of surveillance to fake news and video game culture. He has curated exhibitions at [Senne], Brussels, BE; SEAGER, London, UK; Uus Rada, Tallinn, EE; The Art Station, Saxmundham, UK; upstream.gallery; Harlesden High Street, London, UK; DAATA, London, UK; Vanity Projects, NYC, USA; Pablo’s Birthday, New York, USA; Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK; arebyte Gallery, London, UK; State of the Art, Berlin, DE; The Muse Gallery, London, UK and Serf, Leeds, UK.

Selected solo and duo exhibitions include Scaffolding at Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, EE, (2026, upcoming); Real-Time at Cable Depot, Sofia, BG (2026, upcoming); Asset Flip at SEAGER, London, UK (2024); Logging Off, duo show with Rosa-Maria Nuutinen at The Cut, Haleworth, UK (2024); Sunday School at Number 1 Main Road, Berlin, Germany (2023); Insert Coin at CABLE DEPOT, London, United Kingdom (2023); Non-Player Character at Klaipėda Exhibition Hall, Klaipėda, Lithuania (2023); Attract Mode, duo show with Rúrí Sigríðardóttir Kommata at Kannski Gallery, Reykjavík, IS (2023); Non-Player Character at Galeria Kollektiva, Kassel, Germany (2022); Digging History at INDUSTRA, Brno, Czech Republic (2021); Eat The Rich at Galerie Sono, Paris, France (2021); It’s Always Day One at Office Impart, Berlin, Germany (2021); Bit Rot at Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, United Kingdom (2020); The Big Four, duo show with Rosa-Maria Nuutinen at Harlesden High Street, London, United Kingdom (2019); Wellness, Ltd., duo show with Erin Mitchell at Galerie Manque, New York, USA (2019); State of Affairs at Salon 75, Copenhagen, Denmark (2019) and CACOTOPIA 02 at Annka Kultys Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2018).

Bicknell-Knight has spoken on panel discussions and given artist talks at The University of Tartu Museum, Tartu, EE; Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, LT; Mezanin, Bucharest, RO; panke.gallery, Berlin, DE; Contemporary Calgary, CA; Tate Modern, London, UK; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK and Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK.

His work is part of the Zuzāns Collection (LV), as well as numerous private collections around the world.

​​If you’d like to come by for a studio visit at Bob Bicknell-Knight’s studio (pictured), located at ARS Kunstilinnak in Tallinn, Estonia, please do get in touch.