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- Cut Piece (1964) Yoko Ono performing Cut Piece, 1964, filmed by the Maysles Brothers, at Carnegie Recital Hall, March 21, 1965. Image © Yoko Ono. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong.
- Grapefruit (Instructions) (1964) Cover of a re-issue of Yoko Ono, Grapefruit, 1971, published in 2000 by Simon and Schuster. © Yoko Ono. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong.
- Bed-In (1969) Tony Grylla. John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Bed Sitting Amsterdam, 1961. Forum Auctions. Bidding closed. Ono’s work took on a political dimension in the late 1960s as the Vietnam War persisted.
- Wish Tree (1993–present) Yoko Ono. Wish Tree, 1996. MALBA. Wish Tree, 1996-2015. "Take Me (I'm Yours)" at Monnaie de Paris. Ono’s penchant for fusing pacifism and audience participation is perhaps best seen in her ongoing sculptural project Wish Tree.
Learn about Yoko Ono, a pioneer of visual art, performance, filmmaking, and experimental music. Explore her instructions, installations, and collaborations with John Lennon and others at MoMA.
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Yoko Ono was the eldest of three children, born to Isoko and Eisuke Ono, conservative Japanese aristocrats. Yoko's mother was a painter. Her father wanted to be a concert pianist, but had given up his dream career to be a banker, and sought to live vicariously through his talented daughter Yoko, sending her to music school at the age of four. She l...
During the sixties, Ono gravitated toward the circles of artists participating in "happenings," and held events at her own loft at 112 Chambers Street in New York City. Fluxus artists, avant-garde musicians, and other performers gathered there on a regular basis. Ono became the informal curator of the downtown arts scene in this space, and was know...
A rush of media attention followed Lennon's death, but Ono went into seclusion. Over the course of the 1980s she gradually reemerged as an artist and public figure, returning to musical, written, and visual pieces from previous years. Ono never remarried, but kept her late husband's legacy alive, creating the LennonOno Grant for Peace in 2002 and i...
Ono's performances and instructional paintings of the early 1960s changed forever the relationship between artist and audience. Bed-In and Bagism, pieces staged in 1969 with Lennon, are direct antecedents for subsequent works that turned private life into public spectacle, most famously Tracy Emin's My Bed (1998) and her involvement in the peace mo...
Learn about Yoko Ono's life, art, and achievements as a pioneer of conceptual art, performance art, and feminism. Explore her works that involve the audience, such as Painting to Hammer a Nail, Bag Piece, and Cut Piece.
- Japanese-American
- February 18, 1933
- Tokyo, Japan
Apr 2, 2024 · Explore the life and work of Yoko Ono, a pioneer of conceptual and performance art who challenges traditional notions of art and invites audience participation. Learn about her themes of peace, feminism, and human connection, and her influential artworks such as Cut Piece, Grapefruit, and War Is Over.
Yoko Ono ( Japanese: 小野 洋子, romanized : Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana オノ・ヨーコ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.
Jun 13, 2022 · Did celebrity deprive her of her due as an artist? Louis Menand on Yoko Ono and her achievements before the Beatles.
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May 17, 2015 · A survey of Yoko Ono's early artworks, performances, and films that led up to her unofficial MoMA debut in 1971. Explore her conceptual, experimental, and activist practices that challenged the boundaries of art and life.
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