Alison Knowles
Born 1933, New York, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
Alison Knowles, Untitled, 2002, Cyanotype on cotton, 79 x 29.25 inches
Exhibition view, Jessica Dickinson and Alison Knowles, James Fuentes, 2016
The House of Dust (computer generated poem), 1971 Dot matrix printer paper with ribbon ink Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Each sheet: 11 × 14 ¾ inches (27.94 × 37.47 cm)
Make a Salad, Performance at Art Basel, 2016
Alison Knowles, October Leaves Falling, circa 1995, Flax paper, linen, acrylic stamp, and found objects, 59.5 x 47.75 x 4.75 inches
The Boat Book, 2014-2015. Mixed media (includes wood and metal frame with silkscreen, digital print on silk, handmade paper, collage, assemblage, personal ephemera, beans, books, fishing net, photography, ship anchor, fabric tunnel, electrical lights and spoken word audio), dimensions variable depending on page, approx: 96 x 106 inches
Installation view, Clear Skies All Week, James Fuentes, New York, NY, 2011
Jan Herman Performs The Identical Lunch, 1973/1992. Screenprint on canvas. 19 x 19.5 x 3 inches
Shigeko Kubota Performs The Identical Lunch, 1973/1992. Silkscreen on canvas. 19.5 x 18 inches
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Born 1933, New York, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2022
International Retrospective, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley CA (forthcoming, touring), July 20 – December 18, 2022
2022
The House of Dust, Wiesbaden Kranzplatz, Germany
2016
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The House of Dust, The James Gallery, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York
2015
The Boat Book, James Fuentes, New York
2011
Clear Skies All Week, James Fuentes, New York
2008
Time Samples, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2007
Time Samples, Musee des Moulages, Lyon, France
2006
Time Samples, Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Time Samples, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy
Group Exhibitions
2021
Coded: Art at the Dawn of the Computer Age, 1960-80, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Wo Kunst geschehen kann, (Where Art Might Happen), The early years of CalArts, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
2019
Fluxus: Fluxus Spotlight: Knowles/Ikeda, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles, CA
Japan is America, Fergus McCaffrey, New York
2018
Take Me (I’m Yours), L’Accademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici, Rome
Author Function, curated by Nick Montfort, Rotch Library at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
2017
Take Me (I’m Yours), Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
The Policeman´s Beard is Half Constructed: Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Take Me (I’m Yours), Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Take Me (I’m Yours), The Jewish Museum, New York
2016
Sighs Trapped by Liars, Kunstlerhaus, Halle fur Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
2011
VII Meeting of Action Art, IVAM Museum, Valencia, CA
Selections From the Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2010
Fluxus Banquet, Curator Ann Noël, Fokus Lodz Biennale Bar
In and Out the Window, The Fluxus Museum, Potsdame
The Obstacle is Tautology, Curator Rob Teeters, Front Desk Apparatus, New York
2009
The Third Mind, Guggenheim Museum, New York
2007
Fokus 03 Concept, Action, Language, Curator Achim Hochdorfer, Museum of Modern
Art, Vienna, Austria
Evidence of Movement, Getty Foundation, Los Angeles
Programming Chance, Curated by James Fuentes, Emily Harvey Foundation, New
York
Honors and Awards
2015
Honorary Doctorate, Pratt Institute
The Francis J. Greenburger Award (selected by Claire Bishop)
2009
Honorary Doctorate, Columbia College, Columbia
2003
Lifetime Achievement Award, College Art Association
2002
Anonymous Was a Woman Award
Selected Publications
2020
Swed, Mark. "How gay feminist composer Pauline Oliveros taught us to hear with more than ears." Los Angeles Times (August 5, 2020) [online]
News
Alison Knowles in The Brooklyn Rail
Alison Knowles in the Los Angeles Times
Alison Knowles at the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Alison Knowles at Villa Medici
Alison Knowles at the Aspen Art Museum
Alison Knowles featured in "Author Function" at MIT
MoMA's Thinking Machines, featuring Alison Knowles, reviewed by Forbes (PDF↓)
Alison Knowles featured in Thinking Machines at MoMA
Alison Knowles at The James Gallery in The New Yorker
Alison Knowles in ArtNews, 2016
Alison Knowles in Art in America, 2015
Alison Knowles in The New Yorker, 2015
Alison Knowles in X-TRA, 2012 (PDF↓)
Alison Knowles in Art in America, 2011 (PDF↓)
Alison Knowles in Artforum, 2011 (PDF↓)
Alison Knowles in The New York Times, 2011 (PDF↓)
Alison Knowles in Art Review, 2011 (PDF↓)
Alison Knowles Smithsonian Interview
Alison Knowles in The New York Times, 2008 (PDF↓)
Alison Knowles in Artforum (PDF↓)
Alison Knowles at The MAK Center