![]() In 2013, a major survey of the artist’s work was exhibited for the first time in Australia at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney. Also in 2011, she presented her second solo exhibition at Galerie Lelong in New York, UNCURSED. In July 2011, Ono was honored with the prestigious 8th Hiroshima Art Prize for her dedicated peace activism, and opened the one-person exhibition THE ROAD OF HOPE at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2008, she presented touch me, a solo exhibition of interactive works at Galerie Lelong & Co. In 2009, she exhibited ANTON’S MEMORY at the Bevilacqua Foundation in Venice, and received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement from the Venice Biennale. In 2007, she created IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on Viðey Island in Iceland. She has had numerous exhibitions in museums, including traveling exhibitions organized by the Museum of Modern Art Oxford and the Japan Society in New York. Ono has made a number of films, including Fly and “RAPE.” She has also made many records, including Fly, Approximately Infinite Universe, and Rising. In 1969, together with John Lennon, she realized Bed-In, and the worldwide War Is Over! (if you want it) campaign for peace. During this period, she also performed a number of concerts throughout England. She held one-person exhibitions at the Indica Gallery as well as at Lisson Gallery in the following year. In the summer of 1966, she was invited to take part in the Destruction in Art Symposium in London. In 19, she performed a second concert at Carnegie Recital Hall, participated in the Perpetual Fluxus Festival, exhibited The Stone at the Judson Gallery, and made the first version of Film No. In 1964 Yoko Ono performed Cut Piece in Kyoto and Tokyo, and published her conceptual art book, Grapefruit. In 1962, she returned to Tokyo, where she extended her New York performance and exhibited her Instructions for Paintings at the Sogetsu Art Center. Later that year, she performed a solo concert at Carnegie Recital Hall of revolutionary works involving movement, sound, and voice. In 1961, she had a one-person show at the legendary AG Gallery in New York of her Instruction Paintings. In 1960, she opened her Chambers Street loft to a series of radical performance work, and realizations of some of her early conceptual works. By the late 50s, she had become part of the city’s vibrant avant-garde activities. Yoko Ono was born in Tokyo in 1933, and moved to New York in 1953, following her studies in philosophy in Japan. Yoko Ono is a multi-media artist whose thought-provoking work challenges people’s understanding of art and the world around them. From the beginning of her career, she has been a conceptualist with work that encompasses performance, instructions, film, music, and writing.
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