Christopher Knowles

Wilson described his discovery of the then 13-year-old Knowles, in the extended notes to the Tomato Records release of Einstein on the Beach: Wilson cast the teenager Knowles in a number of his productions, including Einstein on the Beach. In 1978, the American poet John Ashbery wrote in the magazine New York of a volume of Knowles's poetry: Early in 2013, Knowles presented several of his poems in a reading at Gavin Brown's Enterprise in the West Village which had mounted an exhibition of his paintings. The same year, the Museum of Modern Art acquired several of Knowles' paintings, or rather "typings" or "typed designs" – pictures created with a typewriter and using colored ink to make patterns from letters and numbers. He starts creating the pictures by writing his signature and works his way up and to the left. Knowles said, he paints all the reds, then all the blues, and so on. One of his pictures consists only of the words "John Simon pollute your anger", inspired by the art critic's dismissive treatment of Robert Wilson (Simon had described Wilson as a charlatan and accused him of exploiting Knowles). In 2015 the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia staged "Christopher Knowles: In A Word"—solo exhibition of work spanning Knowles' career. The exhibition traveled to the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 2017.

The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are Netherlands. Work by Christopher Knowles is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museum of Modern Art, CODA Museum and Hessel Museum of Art.

• Name — Christopher Knowles • Born — 4 May 1959 • Birthplace — New York City, New York, US • Occupation — * Poet • painter