Alison Knowles (born 1933) in New York City is an American visual artist known for her soundworks*, installations*, performances*, and publications. Knowles was very active in the Fluxus* movement, and continues to create work inspired by her Fluxus experience.

She has created work that incorporates performance, radio, and sound, papermaking, and printmaking. She briefly attended Middlebury College and graduated from the Pratt Institute* in New York with an honors degree in fine art. Knowles was married to the Fluxus artist and prominent intermedia theorist, Dick Higgins, from 1960 to 1970, and again from 1984 until Higgins' death in 1998.

In 2000, Knowles began casting flax paper to make musical instruments. The Bean Turne...