Michael Kent Knutson is an artist, educator, and art activist whose multi-media practice spans diverse media and themes. He currently serves as Professor of 2-D Art at Garden City Community College in southwestern Kansas and sits on the board of Garden City Arts.

The son of two art educators, Knutson grew up in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where his deep connection to nature first took root. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Black Hills State University and his MFA from Fort Hays State University.

Knutson’s work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows across the United States, and his talents have been commissioned for public art projects, including the Sternberg Museum of Natural History and the City of Garden City. His practice invites viewers into cinematic worlds charged with a sense of impending drama—from alien abductions of bison to fiery plains sunsets to late-night gas station hallucinations—offering “fragments of memories suspended in time.”