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Yoko Ono Biography
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1933 |
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Born: in Tokyo, Japan
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1960 |
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Staged legendary loft events on Chambers street with friend La Monte Young and also provided to artist John Cage
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1964 |
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"Cut Piece", a film documenting Ono’s best-known action work, is performed in Japan
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1966 |
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Met John Lennon of The Beatles, creates film No. 4 (Bottoms)
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1973 |
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Released album "Approximately Infinite Universe"
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1982 |
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Won Grammy Award in the Album of the Year category for “Double Fantasy” with John Lennon and Jack Douglas
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1995 |
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Returned to music with son, Sean Lennon, and his band Ima Rising, released album "Rising"
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2001 |
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Released album, “Blue Print For Sunrise”
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2003 |
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Toped US dance music charts with a reworking of “Every man Has A Woman Who Loves Him”, a song she co-wrote with John Lennon, to support gay marriage
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2005 |
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Released book, “Memories of John Lennon”
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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"Yoko Ono: Between The Sky and My Head", BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (solo)
"Yoko Ono: imagine peace", JemaSamuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Florida (solo)
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2008
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"Yoko Ono-Fly", Shanghai, China (solo)
"Yoko Ono: touch me", Galerie Lelong, New York, NY (solo)
"Yoko Ono: en trance", Towada City Project, Towada, Japan (solo)
>"Yoko Ono: three mounds of earth", Hikawa-Akasaka Shrine, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
"Yoko Ono fly", Warsaw Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
"Yoko Ono: gallery 360 degrees", Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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2007
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"Grapefruit", The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (solo)
"Yoko Ono open city", Kasa Galeri, Turkey (solo)
"Yoko Ono imagine peace featuring john & yoko's year of peace", Emily Davis Gallery, Folk Hall / Myers School of Art, Akron, OH (solo)
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2006
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"Heal Yoko Ono",Galerie Davide Di Maggio, Berlin, Germany (solo)
"Wake Yoko Ono", M3 - Galerie Gianluca Ranzi, Antwerpen, Belgium (solo)
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2005
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"Yoko Ono - horizontal memories", Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
"Yoko Ono", Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau, Germany (solo)
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2004
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"Yes Yoko Ono", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan; Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan;Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan (solo)
"Yoko Ono at Chelsea Art Museum", The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
"Yoko Ono remember love / 2," Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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2003
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"Yoko Ono: freight train", P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, NY (solo)
"Yes Yoko Ono", Rodin Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
"Yoko Ono women's room / 2", Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (solo)
"Yes Yoko Ono", Art Tower Mito, Mito City, Japan (solo)
"Yoko Ono", Art Hotel Blaue Gans, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
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2002
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"Yes Yoko Ono", San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fransisco, CA (solo); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (solo)
"Yoko Onoimpressions", Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
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2001
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"Yes Yoko Ono", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
"Yoko Onovertical memory", Gallery 360, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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2000
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"Yoko Ono ", Palace of Sástago, Zaragoza, Spain (solo)
"Yoko Onotajo", Museo Wolf Vostell Malpartida de Cáceres, Spain (solo)
"Yoko Ono- the four seasons and film stills", Ubu Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1998
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"Yoko Ono: conceptual photography", Toldkammaret, Helsingör, Denmark (solo)
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1997
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"Yoko Ono", Galleria 56, Budapest, Hungary (solo)
"Yoko Ono and fluxus", Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London, UK (solo)
"Yoko Ono: conceptual photography", Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
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1996
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"Yoko Ono: fly", Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (solo)
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1994
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"Yoko Ono", Galerie A, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
"Yoko Ono: original paintings and sculptures", The Frankel Collection, Palm Beach, FL (solo)
"Yoko Ono: franklin summer '94", Galerie und Edition Hundertmark, Cologne, Germany (solo)
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1993
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"Yoko Ono: a piece of sky", Galleria Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy (solo)
"Yoko Ono: waiting for the sunrise", Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
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1991
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"Yoko Ono: peace! fridur!", The Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Iceland (solo)
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1990
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"Currents: Yoko Ono", The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (solo)
"Yoko Ono: objects", Films Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (solo)
"Yoko Ono: in facing", Riverside Studios, London, UK (solo)
>"Yoko Ono: fumie", Sogetsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
"Yoko Ono: painting to see the skies", Galerie Marika Malacorda, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
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1989
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"Yoko Ono: objects, films", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
"Yoko Ono: the bronze age", Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (solo)
FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris, France (solo)
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (solo)
Philip Samuels Fine Art, St. Louis, MO (solo)
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1988
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"Yoko Ono: three events", Gallery of Art, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO (solo)
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1971
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"This is not here", Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, NY (solo)
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1968
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"Yoko Ono: water showArts Lab Center", London, UK (solo)
"Four thoughts:Yoko Ono and John Lennon", Arts Lab Center, London, UK (solo)
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1967
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"Yoko Ono Plus Me", Lisson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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1966
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"Yoko Ono", Indica Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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1961
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"Paintings and drawings by Yoko Ono", AG Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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| Literature |
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2008
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Ono, Yoko. YOKO ONO- touch me. Milan, Italy: Edizioni Charta, 2008
Thomas Kellein, ed.Yoko Ono - between the sky and my head. Köln, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008
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2007
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Herzogenrath, Wulf and Frank Laukötter ed. Gemälde - Yoko Ono:Paintings, 1960-1964. Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany: Kunsthalle, 2007
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