| Dates: | born 1933
| | Biography: | (artist biography as of 2004)
Yoko Ono, the multi-media artist, was
born in Tokyo, Japan in 1933.
During the 1950s and 1960s she lived
and worked in New York, Tokyo and
London, settling in New York with her
husband John Lennon in 1971. Yoko
Ono has been credited with being one of
the originators of Conceptual Art, with
works created in 1960, 1961 and 1962
which are language-based, and use the
idea of instructions and participation as
well as licence and performance
structures. At the time she called these
works Insound and
Instructure. These ideas were a
strong influence in the formation of
Fluxus in 1961.
Her events and sound pieces in the early
1960s laid the groundwork for major
developments in music and performance
art of the later part of the century. From
the 1980s to the present her artwork has
been shown internationally in one-
woman shows and retrospectives. Yoko
received the Skowhegan Award in 2002.
Reflecting on her reputation for being
outrageous, Yoko smiles and says, ‘I do
have to rely on my own judgment,
although to some people my judgment
seems a little out of sync. I have my own
rhythm and my own timing, and that’s
simply how it is.’
Selected Works
Performance Works
1965; London and Liverpool, UK, 1967;
Paris, France, 2003
Cut Piece, Yamachi Hall, Kyoto,
Japan,
1964; Carnegie Recital Hall, New York,
USA
Films
Gimme Some Truth: The Making of
Imagine, 2000. Grammy Award
Winner
2001 Best Long Form Video. Yoko Ono:
executive Producer
Fly, 1970
Rape, 1969
No. 5 (‘Smile’), 1968
No. 4 (‘Bottoms’), 1966
Music/Sound Recordings
Blueprint For A Sunrise, 2001
Rising, 1995
Onobox, 1992
Season of Glass, 1981
Double Fantasy, 1980. Grammy
Award
Winner Best Album 1981
Approximately Infinite Universe,
1972
Two Virgins, 1968
Cough Piece, 1962
Billboard/Public Space Works
Imagine Peace, 2001–2004
worldwide
War Is Over!, 1999–2000 Times
Square, New York, USA
Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?
1997, England
In Celebration of Being Human,
1994, Germany
War is Over!, 1969–70 in eleven
cities worldwide
Photography-Based Work
From My Window, 2002
Mommy Was Beautiful, 1997
Vertical Memory, 1997
Portrait of Nora, 1992
Installation Works
Odyssey of a Cockroach, 2003
Imagine Peace, 2001
Freight Train, 2000
Morning Beams, 1997
ExIt, 1997
Wish Tree, 1996
En Trance, 1990
Half-A-Room, 1967
Blue Room, 1966
Current and Recent One-Woman
Exhibitions
Women’s Room, 2003–2004,
Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France;
Museum
Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic;
Women’s Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
Odyssey of a Cockroach, 2003–
2004, Deitch Projects, New York, USA;
ICA, London, UK
YES YOKO ONO, 2000–2004,
retrospective organised by The Japan
Society, New York; on tour in the USA,
and travelling to Seoul, Korea, and five
cities in Japan
From My Window, 2002, Vienna,
Austria
My Mommy was Beautiful, 2002,
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Open Window, 1999–2000, Um
El Fahem, Israel
Impressions, 1999, Bergen
Kunstmuseum, Norway
Wish Trees For Brazil, 1998–99,
Brazil
Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?
, 1997–2000, retrospective organised
by the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford;
toured Europe
Entrance-Ex It, 1996–99,
organised by The Generalitat
Valenciana, Spain; toured South America
Books
Grapefruit, first published in 1964
withnew editions starting in 1970,
republished with new introduction in 2000
Museum of Modern (F) Art, 1971
Instruction Paintings, New York:
Weatherhill, 1995
Pennyviews, California: Turkey
Press, 1995. A collection of drawings
Acorns, 1996. A book created
specifically for the web/internet
Spare Room, Wunternaum Press
with Paris Musées/Onestar Press, 2003
Other Works
Strawberry Fields International Peace
Garden, 1985. Yoko dedicated a
section of Central Park as a tribute to
John Lennon, with plants and trees
donated from 121 countries
| | | Source: | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, International 04 Festival catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2004 |
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| Biography: | The conceptual artist whose art
encompasses many mediums,lives and
works in New York City, and everywhere
| | | Source: | International 08 MADE UP, exhibition catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2008 |
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| | Gender: | female | | Type: | person |
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