A’mya Celeñia McKnight is a multimedia artist from Harlem, New York currently based in New Orleans. Her work focuses on the process of grief and the preservation of stories and histories passed on through families.
McKnight’s directorial debut ‘KING’, Ghetto Film School’s Jury-Prize winning short screened at The Landmark Theater, NYC in 2019. She has continued to focus her studio practice on various mediums which include poetry, photography, analog 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm film as well as launching her community based vinyl giveaway ‘Vinyl Of The Day’ in New Orleans centering local Black-Owned businesses.
McKnight has exhibited work in collaboration with Kelsey Scult at The Front Gallery, and Renee Royale at Antenna Gallery, New Orleans. She is an alum of Maysles Documentary Center and Ghetto Film School and is currently included in the Seeing Black: Gestures Of Refusal exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center until August 2024.