Visual artist, born in Mexico City in 1956. His professional training began in 1975 when he entered the sculpture workshop of Master Lothar Kestenbaum at the National School of Fine Arts in San Miguel Allende, Guanajuato. From 1976 to 1978 he collaborated with Dr. Mathias Goeritz in his Art Section, serving as editor of the magazine Arquitectura/México. From 1979 to 1983, he studied painting at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. There, he came into contact with the New Image Painting movement and studied closely the abstract expressionists, especially Motherwell, de Kooning, and Franz Kline. In 1985 he was the Art Director at the Rufino Tamayo Museum. He founded the graphic workshop El Pez Soluble with Alejandro Arango and Franco Manterola.

In the 90s, Pani‘s plastic expression, which is eminently abstract, becomes more synthetic and lyrical when he moves to the countryside, where he designs and builds his house and studio. In 1993, he moved the graphic workshop to Tequisquiapan, Querétaro, where he has hosted a large number of artists and continues to teach printmaking and drawing clinics and workshops. His participation in multiple exhibitions, both individual and collective, has allowed his work to be part of over 200 collections, public and private, in museums and institutions around the world. In 2001, the city of Florence, Italy, awarded him the Lorenzo the Magnificent medal for his pictorial work. He has created five murals in Mexico City. Within Knut Pani‘s body of work, his expressive large-format painting stands out, as well as his extensive work on paper, including drawings, Artist Books, and prints, and the monumental steel sculpture projects he develops. Currently, he is working on his Visual Exile project and directs, along with Santiago Pani, La Nave Indeleble, and Art-House Holland by PAC (Contemporary Art Platform), interactive centers for the visual arts between Mexico and the Madrid community and the city of Leiden/Leiderdorp, Netherlands, respectively, in conjunction with El Pez Soluble. He lives and works between the cities of Madrid, Leiden, and Tequisquiapan.