Tiffany McKnight
Tiffany McKnight is an Oklahoma City based artist, pattern designer, muralist, and author. McKnight received her BFA in Studio Art with a focus in Printmaking from the University of Oklahoma in 2012. A self-proclaimed color enthusiast, the Miami, Florida-born artist pivoted away from printmaking in 2014 to embrace a kaleidoscopic body of work that includes pattern making, large-scale murals, creative direction, photography, and graphic design. She creates artworks that feature both digitally-manipulated and hand-drawn designs that are vibrant in color, highly detailed, and visually complex. Her work is a fine balance of over-stimulating chaos with repetitious harmony that is inspired by African textiles, flora and fauna, Art Nouveau, and microbiology.
McKnight is the author of “NUVEAU: The Future of Patterns,” an intensely detailed coloring book for pattern lovers, published by Penny Candy Books. She is also a contributing illustrator in the book, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by Tony Medina. You can find her patterns on luxury wallpaper produced in collaboration with SixTwelve and Ketch Design Centre, wrapping paper for the Curbside Chronicle’s ‘Wrap Up Homelessness’ program, and more. In 2017, Tiffany was chosen as one of the contributing artists to Factory Obscura, an art collective creating immersive art experiences in Oklahoma City, and continued her work through 2020 with their first permanent experience Mix-Tape. She is now embarking on her journey as a full-time entrepreneur and started her first company called People by People that launched in 2020.
