John Knuth

John Knuth is an American contemporary artist best known for his large-scale abstract paintings created using houseflies as his primary tool, training the insects to walk through pigment and deposit it onto canvas in dense, shimmering fields of color. His work explores themes of labor, time, mortality, and the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. Knuth has exhibited widely and his distinctive process-based practice has garnered significant attention in the contemporary art world.