Summer / Winter, 2020

Published by Loose Joints on the occasion of “Heaven is a Prison”, 2020.



Summer:

Joy Division: Isolation

Idris Muhammad: Could Heaven Ever Be Like This?

Frank O’Hara: Ode to Joy / To Hell With It

Velvet Underground: Venus in Furs

Cocteau Twins: Sea, Swallow Me

Portishead: The Rip

Durrutti Column: Sketch for Summer



Winter:

Hot Chip: In the Privacy of our Love

Eden Ahbez: The Wanderer

Kate Bush: Cloudbusting

The Sugarcubes: Walkabout

Smog: I Feel Like the Mother of the World

Chet Baker: It’s Always You

Jesus and Mary Chain: April Skies

Brian Ferry: Slave to Love

Mark Armijo McKnight (b. Los Angeles, CA) is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and written about in The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Interview, GQ, Aperture, Art in America, Frieze, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Mousse, and BOMB, among others. His work is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ICA Miami, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Henry Art Gallery, and the Columbus Museum of Art.

His first monograph, Heaven Is a Prison, was published in 2020, followed by Posthume, published by TBW Books in 2025. Armijo McKnight is a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of the 2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize, the 2020 Light Work Photo Book Award, a 2020 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, and a 2023–24 Guggenheim Fellowship.

He is Assistant Professor of Expanded Photography at Rutgers University.

markwmcknight@gmail.com

Represented by Klaus von Nichtssagend (New York)

Posthume (2025) published by TBW Books

Heaven is a Prison (2020) published by Loose Joints