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1933 Born in Tokyo (JP) Artist, musician, (Widow of musician John Lennon). She moved to the United States while a teenager and studied art at New York’s Sarah Lawrence College
1957 she married Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi
1964 they divorced and she took her second husband--artist and filmmaker Tony Cox. The couple, married for five years, had one child, Kyoko
During the 1960s, Ono was successful as a conceptual artist in New York City
1966 she met John Lennon, a member of the Beatles, a world-famous British rock group. The pair fell instantly in love
1969 they married and Lennon changed his name to John Ono Lennon.
The couple collaborated both musically and politically, staging publicized antiwar protests and recording a hit single “Give Peace a Chance,” under the name of The Plastic Ono Band
1970 the Beatles split-up, and Yoko continued to record and perform music with her husband throughout the 1970s
The couple briefly separated in the early 1970s, but by 1975 were back together. In the same year, the couple had a son, Sean, and retired to raise him full-time
1980 they publicly reemerged with the album Double Fantasy, in which they shared creative responsibility. Later in the year, Lennon was assassinated outside of their New York apartment building
During the 1980s, Ono continued working on her experimental art and music
1995 she returned to music in a collaborative project with her twenty-year-old son Sean and his rock band Ima
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from 24.8. Yoko Ono. Between the Sky and My Head
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
from 23.5. Bucharest Biennale 3
Bucharest Biennale for Contemporary Art, Bucharest
until 6.8. Konzept. Aktion. Sprache
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
until 22.6. Comme des bêtes. Ours, chat, cochon & Cie
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
until 1.6. Fluxus East – Fluxus Networks in Central Eastern Europe
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest
Solo shows 36
2007 Yoko Ono - Instructions for Paintings (Photostat Version) 1962/1964
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
Yoko Ono
Kasa Galeri, Istanbul
2006 Grapefruit
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA
Mending Peace
Centre A - Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, BC
Yoko Ono
Galleria Davide Di Maggio - Berlin, Berlin
2005 Yoko Ono
MMK Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Wörlen, Passau
Yoko Ono - Horizontal Memories (2005)
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Yoko Ono - horizontal memories
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
2004 Yes Yoko Ono
The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Shiga
Yoko Ono
Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima
Grapefruit: Yoko Ono in 1964
Ise Cultural Foundation - NY gallery, New York City, NY
Yoko Ono - Odyssey of a Cockroach
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England)
2003 Womens Room - Yoko Ono
Museum Kampa - The Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation, Prague
Yes Yoko Ono
Art Tower Mito ATM, Mito
Yoko Ono
Deitch Projects, New York City, NY
Yoko Ono : Freight Train
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Yoko Ono - Womens room
Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris
Yes Yoko Ono
Rodin Gallery, Seoul
RealismusStudio - Yoko Ono
Neue Gesellschaft Für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin
Yoko Ono. Freight Train
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
2002 YES Yoko Ono
Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL
Y E S YOKO ONO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Y E S YOKO ONO
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2001 Yes Yoko Ono
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Yoko Ono - Impressions
Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona
Y E S YOKO ONO
Contemporary Arts Museum • Houston, Houston, TX
Yoko Ono - Impressions
Villa Tamaris - Centre d´Art, La Seyne sur Mer
YOKO ONO - Her story
† Galerie Vostell, Berlin
2000 Yes Yoko Ono
Japan Society, New York City, NY
YOKO ONO: “Four Seasons” & Film Stills
Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY
FREIGHT TRAIN von YOKO ONO - Lichtinstallation
† Galerie Vostell, Berlin
1998 Yoko Ono
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo
have you seen the horizon lately?
Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
Yoko Ono
Serge Ziegler Gallery, Zurich
Yoko Ono
Deitch Projects, New York City, NY
Yoko Ono - Have you seen the Horizon Lately?
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Group shows 122
2008 Testgyakorlatok / Body Exercises
Institute of Contemporary Art - Dunaújvàros, Dunaujvaros
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
2007 INDICA
Nyehaus, New York City, NY
Performa
SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY
Performa 07 - The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance
Performa, New York City, NY
Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York
Japan Society, New York City, NY
Fleischeslust – oder die Lust an der Darstellung des Fleischlichen
Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Chur
Fluxus East
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Leibesübungen -Vom Tun und Lassen in der Kunst
Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen
Romantischer Konzeptualismus
Bawag Foundation, Vienna
Ensemble
ICA-Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Samling´07
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
Just Use It!
Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg
Love Addiction: pratiche video dal ‘61 ad oggi
Galleria Comunale dArte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone
Romantischer Konzeptualismus
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
E-flux Video Rental
Centre culturel Suisse, Paris
Secuencias - 1976-2006. Arte contemporáneo en las colecciones públicas de Extremadura
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz
Role Play: Feminist Art Revisited
Galerie Lelong - New York, New York City, NY
WACK! - Art And The Feminist Revolution
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
I am making Art - Chapitre 1 - Rituel, Transgression, Endurance, Risque
Centre d´Art Contemporain Geneve, Geneva
e-flux video rental
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
Lights, Camera, Action: Artists´ Films for the Cinema
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
all about laughter
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator
Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, IN
2006 Renegades 25 Years of Performance at Exit Art
Exit Art, New York City, NY
Altered, Stitched & Gathered
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
Super Vision
ICA Boston, Boston, MA
E-Flux Video Rental
Arthouse at the Jones Center - Contemporary Art for Texas, Austin, TX
The Subverted Object
Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY
Kapital
Kent Gallery, New York City, NY
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Switch on the power! - Ruido y políticas musicales
Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Newark Between Us
Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
Artists at Work
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Fluxus & Non Fluxus Fluxus
Randers kunstmuseum, Randers
Dresscode
Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, St. Gallen
Poetische Positionen II
Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel
Its Time for Action (Theres no Option) - About Feminism
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Switch on the Power!
MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator
Art Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Once More...With Feeling
The Changing Room, Stirling (Scotland)
The Expanded Eye. Sehen - entgrenzt und verflüssigt
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
E-flux Video Rental
Extra City - Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp
le Mepris
Mediamatic, Amsterdam
To the Human Future - Flight from the Dark Side
Art Tower Mito ATM, Mito
Art & the 60s from Tate Britain
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
singular
Galleri S.E, Bergen
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
2005 Fluxus - Alemania 1962 – 1994
Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima
PERFORMA 05
Performa, New York City, NY
Looking at Words
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
Once More… With Feeling
Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland (England)
Exhibition of Indoor Collections
Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima
War is over - 1945 - 2005 la libertá dellarte da Picasso a Warhol a Cattelan
GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo
Vancouver Sculpture Biennale 2007
Vancouver Sculpture Biennale, Vancouver, BC
8e Biennale de Lyon - Expérience de la durée - Experiencing Duration
La biennale dart contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator
Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
e-flux video rental
Portikus, Frankfurt/Main
Fluxus und Freunde
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg - Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg
Reflexionen - Eröffnung und Ausstellung
Art Center Berlin Friedrichstrasse, Berlin
Chikaku
Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
Yoko Ono - DREAM UNIVERSE
Portikus, Frankfurt/Main
At the Mercy of Others: The Politics of Care
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Daumenkino
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
2004 Tapei Biennial 2004 - Do you believe in reality?
Taipei Biennial, Taipei
utopia station: auf dem weg nach porto alegre
HDK - Haus der Kunst - München, Munich
5th Shanghai Biennale - Techniques of the visible
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
Sons & Lumières: Une histoire du son dans lart du XXe siècle
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Liverpool Biennial 2004
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool (England)
Nippon time recycled
Yvon Lambert - New York, New York City, NY
View point - works from the museum collection
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
Street-Smart Art: Five Artists to Create Billboards
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
A Century Of Artists Film in Britain
Tate Britain, London (England)
2003 Juguetes para Ícaro - Abanicos de dos mares
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo
Tri (o) ptique - Akerman/Ono/Moral
MLAC - Museo Laboratorio dArte Contemporaneo, Rome
Gloria - Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s
The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England)
Centraal Fluxus Festival - in POST CM
Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
THE GIFT: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
Sommerausstellung
† Galerie Vostell, Berlin
Imagine - Selections from the permanent collection
Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL
50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
The Gift - Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
2002 THE GIFT - Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality
Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), Bronx, NY
A History of Happiness
ACCA - Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC
riverrun
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Public Affairs
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Gloria - another look at feminist art in the 1970s
White Columns, New York City, NY
Multiformity: Multiples from the MCA Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
nto the Light: The Projected Image in American Art, 1964–1977
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Another World; Zwölf Bettgeschichten
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
C/O Sergels Torg - Bodies
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
La Fluxus Constellation
Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa
THE GIFT: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ
Passenger - The Viewer as Participant
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
2001 Art & Music
Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich
Rhethorics of surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Naked since 1950
L&M Arts, New York City, NY
do it
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Yokohama 2001 - International Triennale of Contemporary Art
Yokohama Triennale, Tokyo
I Bienal de Valencia - The Body of Art
Bienal de Valencia, Valencia
il Dono
Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena
The New Frontier - Art and Television, 1960-1965
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2000 Process / Reprocess - Japan and the West
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, NY
Global Conceptualism - Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Performing Bodies
Tate Modern, London (England)
The Color of Ritual, The Color of Thought - Women Avant-Garde Filmmakers in Amer
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Unoder
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
Biennale of Sydney 2000
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Destruction / Creation
Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY
1999 Chronos and Kairos, die Zeit in der zeitgenössischen Kunst
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
At the Threshold of the Visible - Minuscule and Small-Scale Art, 1964-1996
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
48th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Codex - A Constitution Exhibition
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s–1980s
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
1998 Arte y acción
Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
Root
Chisenhale Gallery, London (England)
Crossings - Kunst zum Hören und Sehen
Kunsthalle Wien (project / public space Karlsplatz), Vienna
The 60s in the Seventies
Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY
Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Cartographers
CSW Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Dealer Directory 12

Germany
Galleria Davide Di Maggio - Berlin, Berlin

Italy
Galleria Davide Di Maggio - Milano, Milan

Netherlands
Galerie A, Amsterdam

Norway
Galleri S.E, Bergen

Spain
Galerie und Edition Hundertmark, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Galeria Fernando Latorre, Madrid

Switzerland
Leonhard Ruethmueller - Contemporary Art, Basel

Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich

Serge Ziegler Gallery, Zurich

USA
Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX

Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY

Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Public collections 13

Austria
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna

Canada
National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON

Denmark
Randers kunstmuseum, Randers

Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde

Estonia
The Museum of New Art, Pärnu

Finland
Porin Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori

Italy
Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Norway
Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen

Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden

Spain
Museo Vostell Malpartida, Malpartida de Cáceres

United Kingdom
Tate Britain, London (England)

USA
Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL

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