Born in Oklahoma City, OK, 1946
Currently lives and works in Arlington, VA
EDUCATION
1980 Fellow at S. W. Hayter’s Atelier 17, Paris, France
1976 International Summer Academy of the Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria, Studio of Otto Eglau, printmaker, West Berlin
1973 University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Master of Fine Arts Degree, painting
1970 International Summer Academy of the Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria, studio of Zao Wou-ki, painter, Paris
1969 Asbury College, Wilmore, KY: Bachelor of Arts Degree
1968 Sorbonne, Paris, France (summer language program)
1967 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (summer study)
1960-64 Private instruction, painting, Lakeland, FL
AWARDS
Knippers Award in Painting, first recipient, established by Christians in Visual Arts to be given for distinction in painting in keeping with the purposes of CIVA, 2005.
1990 Virginia Prize for Painting, third place, The Virginia Commission for the Arts (juror, Peter Morrin, Director of the J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY).
The Ellipse Competition, Arlington, VA, 1990, Best of Show, (juror: Jane Adams Allen, co-founder of the New Art Examiner).
1989 Virginia Prize for Painting, Honorable Mention, The Virginia Commission for the Arts (juror: Michiko Itatani, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago).
Fellowship Award, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1987.
Painting ‘87, Juror’s Award, Arlington Arts Center (juror: Barbara Haskell, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY).
Juror’s Merit Award, Juried Painting Exhibition, Arlington Art Center, 1984 (juror: Holly Soloman, Holly Soloman Gallery, NY).
Prize of Salzburg (printmaking), International Summer Academy of the Fine Arts, Oskar Kokoschka’s School of Vision, Salzburg, Austria, 1976.
Tennessee Painting and Sculpture Competition, Nashville, TN, 1973 (juror: Allan D’Arcangelo). Awarded Solo Show in Painting.
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS AND INVITATIONALS
Sacred Voices, an exhibition of Christian, Jewish and Muslin artist of faith, Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, 5 December – 2 March, 2014.
Body of Christ, A Juried Exhibition Sponsored by the Washington Theological Consortium, Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC, 2007.
A Broken Beauty: Figuration, Narrative and the Transcendent in North American Art, The Laguna Beach Museum of Art, 2005.
The Next Generation: Contemporary Expressions of Faith, The Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA), New York City, Fall, 2005.
Narrative in Contemporary Art, three person show with Sandra Bowden and Karen Swenholt, Foxhall Gallery, Washington, DC, 2005.
Matter of Spirit, two-person show with Carolyn Young Hisel, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY, 2004.
Like a Prayer: A Jewish and Christian Presence in Contemporary Art, Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC , Winter 2001, catalogue (curator: Theodore Prescott).
Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries, Exploring the Heart of Two Millennia, A survey of Christian Art, The Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2000–2001, catalogue.
Anacostia: Hope in the City, an exhibition for racial reconciliation in Washington, DC, 1999.
Hope in the City, An exhibition for Black History Month, Union Station, Washington, DC, 1999.
Searching for the Spiritual, Depree Art Center and Gallery, Hope College, Holland, MI, and Eric Dean Gallery, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, 1997, catalogue (curator: Jack Wilson).
The Whereabouts of Beauty in the Late Twentieth Century Art, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, 1997, catalogue.
Art and Spirit: Paintings by Edward Knippers and ceramics by Ampofo-Anti, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA, 1997.
Italian Influences: A Contemporary View, paintings by Edward Knippers and Sandra Bowden, Foxhall Gallery, Washington, DC, 1997.
New American Paintings, The Eighth Open Studios Quarterly Competition, (juror: John B. Ravenal, Assistant Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art), 1996.
Painter’s Painters Invitational, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Longwood College, Farmville, VA, April–May l995, catalogue.
The Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington, February 1995.
Spiritual Inquiry, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL, February 1995.
Alumni Invitational in honor of the 200 Anniversary of the University of Tennessee, The C. Kermit Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, Knoxville, November 1994.
PERIODICALS
Auge, Karen. “The Body of Christ; The Paintings of ‘Passionate Grace’ Use Nudity to Express Spirituality.” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, September 20, 1997.
Aull, Marjorie. “Knippers’ Art: A Naked Gaze at the Truth of God.” Eternity, March, 1987.
Breeding, Lucinda. “Body Art: Artist examines human form and Christianity.” Denton Record-Chronicle, September 17, 2000.
Breeding, Lucinda. “The Naked Truth in Art.” Denton Record-Chronicle, October 22, 2000.
Clothier, Peter. “‘Setting the Stage’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.” L.A. Weekly, November 29–December 5, 1985
Weisburg, Ruth. “Contemporary and Timeless Dramas.” Artweek, December 7, 1985.
Copley, Rich. “The Body of Christ.” Lexington Herald-Leader, March 13, 2004.
Cox, Alice Lawson. “On Disrobing the Divine.” Clarity, March/April, 1994.
Dempsey, Terrence E., SJ. “And the World Was Made Flesh.” The Critic, Fall, 1988, vol. 43, no. 1.
Dempsey, Terrence E. “The Re-Assertion of the Spiritual.” Faith and Form: Journal of the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture, Spring, 1987. Four American artists with Charlotte Lichtblau, Frederick Brown, and Jim Morphesis.
Frank, Patrick. “Reviews: Virginia, Edward Knippers.” New Art Examiner, September, 1986.
Fuller Seminary. “Annunciation of the Shepherds.” Theology, News & Notes, Fall, 2009.
Green, Barbara. “Art That’s Too Large for Homes, Too Nude for Churches.” Richmond News Leader, November 28, 1986.
Hogan/Albach, Susan. “No offense intended. Christian artist says nudity in his work isn’t irreligious.” Dallas Morning News, September 16, 2000.
Hoi, Samuel, Art Sites6 special issue, Washington Review, June/July, 1994, vol. XX, no. 1.
Johnson, Ken. “New Artists Who Are Motivated By Christianity, The Next Generation. Museum of Biblical Art.” The New York Times, August 19, 2005.
Knippers, Edward. “Artist Log in Studio: Diary of a Painting Day.” Contemporary Art/Southeast, 17 May 17, 1980, vol. II, no. VI.
Knippers, Edward. “The Resurrection of the Body.” Christianity and the Arts, Winter, 1998, vol. 5, no. 1.
Knippers, Edward. “Op-ed on controversy at the Biblical Art Center.” Dallas Morning News, July, 2000.
Lindsey, Brian. “Physicality: Artist’s Works Utilize Body Images to Explore Christian Doctrines.” Denton Record-Chronicle, September 14, 2000.
McMullen, Cary. “Body of Work.” Lakeland Ledger, January 6, 2001. Story placed with the New York Times Regional Group.
Merritt, Robert. “Religious Subjects Shape Style.” Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 7, 1986.
Neff, David. “Gruesome Images, Signs of Hope.”Christianity Today, March 6, 1987.
Nichols, Ann. “Violence and Grace.” Chattanooga Times/Chattanooga Free Press, December 3, 2000.
Okuliar, Reine Ullman. “Edward Knippers – Flesh and Blood.” Artvoices Magazine, Winter Art Basel Issue no. 38, 2015.
Olasky, Marvin, “Body of Work,” World Magazine, December 4, 2010.
Power, Mark. “Sacred and Secular: Knippers’ Grand Vision at Arlington Arts Center.” Washington Post, July 10, 1986.
Prescott, Theodore. “Edward Knippers: A Profile.” Image, A Journal of the Arts & Religion, 1993.
Proctor, Roy. “Edward Knippers Renews Spiritual Impulse in Art.” Richmond News Leader, November 29, 1986.
Rutherford. Primitive of an Old Way: An Interview with Edward Knippers. December, 1996, vol. 5, no. 12.
Schoettler, Carl. “And All Shall Be Revealed.” Baltimore Sun, February 27, 1999.
van Matre, Lynn. “Let There Be Art.” Chicago Tribune for the Gazette Telegraph, April 16, 1994.
Simon, Josh, reporting. “Who Was Jesus?” LIFE, December, 1994.
Throop, John. “Sanctuary for the Sacred. Reviving the Lost Soul of Art,” Worship Leader, May/June 1997.
Welzenback, Michael. “A Crisis in Faith, or a Crisis in Art?” Washington Times, July 3, 1986.
Wilson, William. “There’s No Showing Off in ‘Setting the Stage.’” Los Angeles Times, November 18, 1985.