Nsenga Knight was born in 1981 in Brooklyn, New York. She currently lives and works in Cairo, Egypt and New York. She has exhibited work at the Drawing Center, New York, NY; the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Project Rowhouses, Houston, TX; Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Pennsylvania; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, Brooklyn, NY; New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY; PS1 MoMA among others. Knight is a 2019-2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee. She has been a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, the Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant, and has held artist residencies at the Drawing Center in New York, Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Galveston Artist Residency in Galveston, Texas, and. BRICworkspace in Brooklyn, NY. Knight earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Photography at the University of Pennsylvania, a Bachelor of Arts in Film Production at Howard University.