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Christopher Knight is art critic for the Los Angeles Times.

A three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism (1991, 2001 and 2007), Knight received the 1997 Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism from the College Art Association, the first journalist to win the award in more than 25 years.

Knight has appeared on CBS' "60 Minutes," PBS' "NewsHour," NPR's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" and CNN, and he was featured in the 2009 documentary movie, "The Art of the Steal." He is the author of two books: "Last Chance for Eden: Selected Art Criticism, 1979-1994," published in 1995 by Art Issues Press, and "Art of The Sixties and Seventies: The Panza Collection," published by Rizzoli in 1989 and reissued in 2003.

Prior to joining the staff of the Los Angeles Times in 1989, Knight served as Los Angeles Herald Examiner art critic (1980-89), as assistant director for public information at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1979-80) and as curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1976-79). From 1986 to 1989 he also served as a program adviser to the Lannan Foundation and to the Archives of American Art regional office in Los Angeles.

In 1999 Knight was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the former Atlanta College of Art (Georgia). He received his Master's degree in art history from the State University of New York in 1976 and his Bachelor's degree in literary and visual art from Hartwick College (Oneonta, New York) in 1972. He was named Distinguished Alumnus of Hartwick College in 1999.

Knight has published catalog essays for exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ("David Hockney: A Retrospective" and "Seventeen Artists in the Sixties"), the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art ("The Barry Lowen Collection"), the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ("Eight Artists: The Elusive Image"), the Baxter Art Gallery at Cal Tech ("25 Years of Space Photography"), the Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, Fla. ("Edward Ruscha: Words Without Thoughts") and several other museums and galleries. His articles have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Art in America, Artforum, Art Issues, Vanity Fair, Elle, Aperture, Harper's Bazaar, Parkett, Flash Art, The Advocate, California Magazine and other periodicals.

Knight has lectured extensively on 20th century art at American museums and universities, and he has served on public art panels for the cities of Los Angles, Seattle and Las Vegas; he was a member of the Washington State University Public Art Commission from 1996 to 2002. He has been a visiting scholar at Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO) and an instructor at Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles, CA) the Claremont Graduate University (Claremont, CA), Hartwick College and Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY).