Savannah Knoop
Part-time Lecturer
Email
knoops@newschool.edu
Office Location
L - 2 West 13th Street
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Savannah Knoop is an NYC-based multi-disciplinary artist, and writer.
They received their BA at CUNY under the mentorship of Vito Acconci, and their MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in Sculpture+Extended Media. They have exhibited and performed at the Whitney Museum, MoMA, the ICA Philadelphia, the Leslie Lohman Museum, David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Nina Johnson Gallery in Miami, and Nicelle Beauchene in New York.
In 2001, Savannah Knoop founded the clothing line Tinc, which ran until 2009. From 2009-2016 Knoop co-hosted the monthly queer audio-visual party WOAHMONE. In 2007, they published their memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy (Seven Stories Press) and adapted it into a screenplay, co-producing the resulting feature-length film JT Leroy (Universal Pictures,2019) directed by Justin Kelly, starring Kristen Stewart as Knoop. Alongside Brontez Purnell, Knoop is working to adapt his novel, Since I Laid My Burden Down, into a feature film of the same title.
Knoop has written essays for the LA Review of Books, 032C, Dazed, Critical Correspondence, Cultured Magazine, and more.
Degrees Held
2016 Virginia Commonwealth University, MFA in Sculpture+ Extended Media, 2014 - 2016
2014 CUNY Unique and Interdisciplinary Program, BA in Performance/Sculpture, Mentor: Vito
Acconci, 2011 - 2014
Recent Publications
"TENDERNESS", a short story by Savannah Knoop, VEHICLE, Issue #1, November, 2024
“Tour De North Brooklyn,Savannah Knoop, filmmaker and artist, goes for a spin.” Talkhouse, the NEW YORK ISSUE, ISSUE #01, November, 2023
“99 Problems and The Boyfriend Within Is Not One”, SAVANNAH KNOOP REVIEWS UNDERGROUND PUNK ICON BRONTEZ PURNELL’S NEW BOOK, 100 BOYFRIENDS, Cultured Magazine, December issue, 2020
A Very Specific Form of Touch, an essay by Savannah Knoop, Critical Correspondence, Movement Research, WRITINGS, JUN 18, 2020
CONFUSED NEWS: The real JT Leroy, Savannah Knoop, on identity in the age of deepfakes, in Life and Culture, the SPRING 2020 issue, Dazed
IT’S ALL HAPPENING, Insistent Verticality, Insistent Horizontality, Artist Savannah Knoop reviews Pope L.’s Crawl, and Thom Browne’s The Office People, in Cultured Magazine
LA REVIEW OF BOOKS, Quarterly Journal: No 23, Imitation Issue, SCREENS: A Project About “Community, by Savannah Knoop
An Unmediated Conversation Between Kristen Stewart, Savannah Knoop, and Collier Schorr, written by Savannah Knoop, images by Collier Schorr, GOMD Fanzine in 032C
Why Killing Eve is the TV Show of My Eight-Year-Old Dreams, TalkHouse
Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy, Seven Stories Press