Elena Knox

Elena Knox
Born in Australia,1975. Lives and works in Tokyo.

Elena Knox’s art cuts through digital media, performance, sound, music, and installation. Her projects examine how technological civilization evolves to mimic human desires for self-replication. Presenting ultra-contemporary scenarios where humans live in deep enmeshment with synthesized things, Knox involves audiences in rich and distorted interactions that undercut basic social codes, often conveying their performative absurdity. Her works expose uncomfortable thresholds of intimacy, physicality, and faith.

Some of Knox’s recent works use frontier Japanese robots to audition roles of identity and belief in techno-science futures. Others explore new visions of gender and cyber-organics in dreamlike, stripped-back situations.

Knox’s artworks are in increasing demand internationally. She won the Apex Art New York international curatorial competition for her exhibition “Can You Fuck It?” in Tokyo (2022). She created solo shows for Tokyo Arts and Space (2021–22); Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama (2019); Gallery Hashimoto, Tokyo (2018), and UNSW Galleries, Sydney (2017, 2015), and is participating globally in top-tier exhibitions, including: Seoul International New Media Festival (2024); Ars Electronica (2023); Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (2023); Foundation, Videotage Hong Kong (2023); Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (2022); ICC Annual, Tokyo Opera City (2022); Spectra, Australian Network for Art & Technology (2022); Art Machines 2, Hong Kong (2021); , Mori Art Museum (2019–20); Bangkok Art Biennale (2020); Yokohama Triennale (2020); Beijing Media Art Biennale (2018–19); AS-HelixAlgorithmic Art, Hong Kong City Hall (2019); Synthetic Mediart, Taipei Expo Park (2019); and A Better Version of You, Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2017). Artist residencies include Australia House (Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, 2019); and K11 Art Foundation (Wuhan, 2016).

Knox is a researcher with Waseda University, Tokyo and holds a PhD Media Art from UNSW Australia Art & Design. She also performs solo and with others as a musician, spanning improvisation, electronic pop, and noise.

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