 Yoko
Ono related solo shows
Yoko
Ono's exhibitions from 1961 to present
ni una mas (not one more): the juarez murders
Drexel Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia: May 15th - July 16th 2010
 From the press release: "Since 1993, more than 600 young women and girls have been the victims of an ongoing terror in the city and surrounding area of Juarez, Mexico, an area just across the river/border from El Paso, Texas The majority are Mexican, but a number are American citizens. Nearly all are young students and factory girls--maquiladoras between the ages of 14 and 22. Some are missing without a trace, but hundreds have been discovered dead in multiple sites in the nearby desert. From their remains it is certain they have been battered, sexually abused, and often grotesquely mutilated; some have had their organs removed. Various theories abound, but the greatest mystery beyond who is responsible, is how the Mexican government and our own have allowed the femicide to continue. Very little has been done by the local Juarez police, the State of Chihuahua or the National Government to find the killers or to prevent new murders. The FBI, the UN and Amnesty International have attempted to investigate, but their offers are rebuffed and the crimes remain unsolved. In the years since the abductions began, the families, in particular, the mothers of these girls, a few dedicated journalists, musicians, filmmakers and artists have kept the chronicle alive as the horrific deaths continue.
How artists respond in the face of these atrocities is the core of this exhibit Ni Una Mas: The Juarez Murders. Twenty notable artists—men, women, Latino and American bear witness to the many faces and facets of this tragedy. Their responses are personal and varied as they confronted the implicit sexism, drug politics, corruption and indifference behind the story as well as the sadness and outrage at the continued demeaning and devaluation of women. They remind us that this crisis demands action since every day another girl is at risk of suffering vicious abuse and certain death. We owe a debt to Frontera 450 + presented by the Station Museum in Houston in 2006. Four years later and 150 more girls missing, we are impelled to try anew."
Ni Una Mas will demonstrate that art can be a force for social change.
By Yoko Ono: A 15 x20’ interactive canvas, “heal”. The piece includes a large slashed canvas. Visitors are invited to sew the canvas back together as a symbol of healing.
HEAL - BY YOKO ONO
Our body is the scar of our mind
We are the oasis of our planet
We can move mountains
Heal planet
Heal earth
Heal us
art basel miami beach
December 3rd - 6th 2009
 From the press release: "On view are films and documentations of performances that were staged in the gallery in Vienna in the early 1990s, a historic overview of Fluxus works, as well as important posters from the era. The exhibition will comprise pieces by important Fluxus artists such as Robert Filliou (1926-1987), Yoko Ono (born 1933), Nam June Paik (1932-2006), Carolee Schneemann (born 1939), Daniel Spoerri (born 1930), Emmett Williams (1925-2007) and others."
art forum berlin
Palais am Funkturm, Hammarskjöldplatz, Berlin
September 24th - 28th 2009
chance aesthetics
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis
September 18th 2009 - January 4th 2010
 From the press release: "Chance Aesthetics explores these concepts in three thematic sections: "Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object," "Automatism," and "Games and Systems of Random Ordering." Each section addresses central avant-garde strategies employed to subvert or rework traditional forms of artistic expression. These categories also provide a basic framework through which individual movements--Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, and others--are traversed in order to compare and contrast chance-based strategies and objectives across diverse historical and cultural contexts."
FLOAT @ socrates sculpture park
Long Island City, New York
August 29th and 30th 2009
see this sound. promises in sound and vision
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
August 28th 2009 - January 10th 2010
reflecting transformation
No Longer Empty at The Caledonia, New York City
July 31st - September 26th 2009
 From the press release: "Conceptual and fluxus artist, Yoko Ono, will present a work from her series of space transformations, which as the artist has said work mainly as an invocation “to constructing in your head”. “SPACE TRANSFORMER” as presented in this exhibition will consist of security barriers which delineate a specific site in the space chosen for transformation together with the sign This Is a Space Transformation. The installation will be accompanied by take away cards also urging visitors to “Transform Space”."
the eagle document: the new collection of enumerated things
Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London, Britain
opening on July 27th 2009
By Yoko Ono: Fly (multiple)
 From the press release: "The Eagle Document: The New Collection of Enumerated Things is an exhibition of artists' collections. It explores how the collection can both be used as a resource as well as being art in its own right. Artists represented include Neil Chapman, Jo Mitchell, Ruth Maclennan, Gail Pickering and the curator, Monika Oechsler. The exhibition also presents works from the Chelsea School of Art Library Special Collection, including Fly, a multiple by avant-garde artist Yoko Ono."
boule to braid
Lisson Gallery, London, Britain
June 24th - August 15th 2009
 From the press release: "'Boule to Braid' already suggests some of the over (and under) laps which were such a feature for his Hayward organised touring show 'Thinking Aloud', at the end of the last century. In Richard Wentworth's 'Thinking Aloud' artists including Karin Ruggaber, Keith Coventry, Patrick Caulfield, and Simon Starling's pirated do-it-yourself Eames chairs, Tom Sachs and Bruce Nauman came together with a Frank Gehry model, snowed under by an enormous assortment of material harvested from both private and museum sources. The show converged the territories that artists like to discuss: war, economics, technology, history, geography etc. People who saw this exhibition speak of their experience with a giddy reverence."
target practice: painting under attack, 1949-78
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
June 25th - September 7th 2009
By Yoko Ono: Painting to Hammer a Nail (1961/66)
The Yoko Ono piece continues to evolve
our
subject is you
Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina
June 21st 2009
- September 13th 2009
the third mind: american artists contemplate asia, 1860–1989
Guggenheim Museum, New York
January 30th - April 19th 2009
 From the press release: "The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989 will feature approximately 270 works across a broad range of media and disciplines, and will represent over 100 artists, including: John La Farge, James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Arthur Wesley Dow, Georgia O’Keeffe, Augustus Vincent Tack, Ezra Pound, Isamu Noguchi, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, David Smith, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, Jordon Belson, Ad Reinhardt, Anne Truitt, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Walter de Maria, Adrian Piper, Bill Viola, and Tehching Hsieh. Select masterpiece objects on loan from European and Japanese museums will complement loans from over 110 American museums and private collections."
By Yoko Ono: Twenty-two Instructions for Paintings (1961–62), and a discussion with exhibition curator Alexandra Munroe on April 2nd 2009
re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
December 13th 2008 - February 8th 2009
 From the press release: "The exhibition documents performative works from 24 artists spanning across two generations. The selected works extend the perspective beyond the canon of the known and familiar in order to demonstrate the diversity and complexity of (feminist) performative strategies. This includes performance movements in Eastern and South Eastern Europe as well as the former GDR (since the beginning of the 1980s), which often developed parallel to and independent of “Western art”.
gateshead winter festival
Newcastle, Britain
December 13th 2008 – January 4th 2009
 By Yoko Ono: Onochord, a work where Ono uses light to form a code spelling out “I Love You” or “•, ••, •••” will be presented as a large projection of light from the Castle Keep, Newcastle (13 December – 4 January). Alongside this, Yoko Ono’s Film No. 5 (Smile), made in 1968, will be projected onto existing buildings within the two cities. The film, shot with a high-speed camera, records a single smile of John Lennon that evolves over the course of fifty-one minutes.
Related to her show at BALTIC.
art basel miami
December 3rd - 6th 2009
From the press release: "At Art Basel Miami Beach, more than 250 of the world's leading art galleries for modern and contemporary art from North America, Latin America, Europe, South Africa and Asia will display 20th and 21st century artworks. The show features painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, print, photography, film, performance, video and digital art by more than 2,000 artists."
the art of
participation: 1950 to now
San Francisco MoMA
November 8th 2008 - February
8th 2009
By Yoko Ono: Cut Piece (1965/2003)
the art of experience
Cressman Center Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
November 7th 2008 - January 3rd 2009
Fluxus Works from the Klosterman/Lowe Collection, including pieces by Yoko Ono.
andy warhol: other voices, other rooms
The Hayward Gallery, London, Britain
October 7th 2008 - January 18th 2009
Information from "insound" / FOY mailing list: "One of the pieces is a video Warhol made as a contribution to Yoko's "Water Talk" exhibition at the Everson Museum in 1971. The text by the video reads: Andy Warhol's only intentionally produced piece of 'video art' came about when Yoko Ono invited him to participate in her exhibition entitled 'Water Talk' at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY in October 1971. She requested that Warhol and other invited artists 'produce with her a water sculpture, by submitting a water container or idea of one which would form half of the sculpture. Yoko will supply the other half - water.' For the project, Warhol chose to create a videotape - a single 32-minute take of a water cooler from a fixed camera position with the soundtrack consisting of a gossipy conversation among friends around the water cooler at the Factory, including himself and Paul Morrisey. At the exhibition, "Water" was shown on a monitor and a duplicate videocassette was placed upon a pedestal. Yoko Ono has wanted to immerse the cassette in water as per the premise of the show, but Warhol refused. "Water" with the voices of Andy Warhol, Sylvia, Dorrian Gray, Paul Morrissey, 2 unknown men. 1971. 1/2" reel to reel videotape transferred to digital files (DVD). Black/White, sound, 32 min."
asian/american/modern art: shifting currents, 1900-1970
de Young Museum, San Francisco
October 25th 2008 - January 18th 2009
By Yoko Ono: Sky TV
sympathy for the devil: art and rock and roll since 1967
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
October 10th 2008 - January 11th 2009
A group exhibition in Montreal includes a central place by Yoko Ono in the section titled "Ono, Eno, Arto: Non-musicians and the Emergence of Concept Rock".
WACK! art and the feminist revolution
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
October 4th 2008 - January 11th 2009
Travelling group exhibition now in Canada.
By Yoko Ono: Cut Piece (film)
chanel
mobile art
Central Park, New York
October 2008
By
Yoko Ono: Wish
trees
The exhibition travels to London (June 2009), Moscow
(September 2009) and Paris (February 2010).
nuite
blanche
Toronto, Canada
October 4th 2008
By Yoko Ono: Wish
trees near Lamport Stadium, Imagine Peace billboard in the corner of Liberty St. and Jefferson Ave.
street art street life
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City
September 14th 2008 - January 26th 2009
liverpool biennial
Liverpool, Britain
September 20th - November 30th 2008
By Yoko Ono: Skyladders
close encounters: facing the future
The Katzen Arts Center of American University
September 13th - October 26th 2008
 From press release: "Encounters is a compelling dialogue on social issues disguised as a contemporary art exhibition. Artists: Allora & Calzadilla, Cory Arcangel, Beehive Collective, Enrique Chagoya, Mel Chin, Sam Durant, Floating Lab Collective, Futurefarmers, Leon Golub, Wayne Gonzales, Daniel Heyman, Jenny Holzer, Mildred Howard, Chris Jordan, Ligorano/Reese, Robyn O'Neill, Yoko Ono, Ester Partègas, Jefferson Pinder, Adrian Piper, Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Martha Rosler, Roger Shimomura, Taryn Simon, Nancy Spero, Jon Winet."
By Yoko Ono: Ex It
dissonances japanese six artists
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
September 30th - December 25th 2008
Info from Mikihiko Hori: "The works by these six female Japanese artists who represent the avant-garde, post-war Japanese art scene - Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Shigeko Kubota, Yoko Saito, Mieko Shimi, and Atsuko Tanaka"
circa 1958: breaking ground in american art
Ackland Art Museum , Chapel Hill, NC
September 21st 2008 - January 4th 2009
From the press release: "As Happenings and Environments evolved, other artists, including Yoko Ono and George Brecht, created art objects that forced the spectator to consider his or her relationship to the work. In the works exhibited here, visitors are asked to participate. The objects assume meaning when "activated" by a viewer who is willing to hammer, listen, or sit according to the instructions by the artist."
By Yoko Ono: Painting to Hammer a Nail (1961/ 1966)
out there
The Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, Italy
Sep 14th 2008 - November 24th 2008
agency: art and advertising
McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University
September 19th - November 8th 2008
 From press release: "Sometimes puzzling, sometime provocative, works in advertising media by artists ranging from Marcel Duchamp to Jeff Koons to 0100101110101101.ORG have both delighted and disturbed audiences that are sometimes left to wonder exactly what it is they're seeing. Indeed, artists have used the media of advertising to communicate content that often defies viewers' expectations and frequently challenges them. Agency: Art and Advertising is an exhibition that explores artists' use of advertising media as sites for works of art (as opposed to the more conventional use of advertising for the promotion of work) as well as its subject. The exhibition, curated by Kevin Concannon, PhD, and John Noga, will focus on works of art in and about advertising media from the 1960s to the present."
By Yoko Ono: IsReal Gallery: Drill Hole Event, 1965, Yes TV Spots (Planet Propaganda for Walker Art Center), 2001, and billboard War Is Over!, 1969
akasaka
art flower 08
Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
September 10th - October 13th 2008
Mikihiko
Hori: Yoko Ono is going to present her work in a very interesting site. Yoko's
work will be displayed at a very famous old Japanese shrine called "Akasaka
Hikawa Jinja"
By Yoko Ono: Wish Tree for Peace, Riverbed, Three Mounds, SKY TV for Hikawa Jinja, Ex It (Sound Piece).
looking at music
MoMa, New York
August 18th – December 31th 2008
The New York Sun (September 2008): "Unsurprisingly, works by several artists associated with the Dada-inspired movement Fluxus are on hand. Nam June Paik and Otto Piene manage to combine the unctuous and the rarefied in a 1968 piece consisting of a pearl-encrusted television with a single, unblinking diagonal illuminating its screen. Yoko Ono's 51-minute-long film (1968) features a close-up of John Lennon's face, with movements so slowed down as to be all but imperceptible. In a nearby display case, her piece "Fly" (1996) strikes a note of wistful sweetness with real stones and acorns wrapped in Zen-like instructions: "... Add a stone each time there is happiness ... ." Eastern philosophies inspired composer John Cage to even more reductive methods. His drawing "Untitled (640 numbers between 1 & 16)" (1969) is just that: columns of handwritten numerals, in no discernible order."
fluxus
scores and instructions, the transformative years: “make a salad.”
Museum
of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark
June 7th - September 21st 2008
sydney
biennale, revolutions: forms that turn?
Sydney, Australia
June 18th
- September 7th 2008
far
west
Arnolfini, Bristol, Britain
June 28th - August 31st 2008
By
Yoko Ono: Mend Piece For Merry England it's
not only rock 'n' roll, baby!
Palais Des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
June
20th - September 14th 2008 By Yoko Ono: Ex It
shanghai
zendai museum of modern art presents
e-flux: "Intrude: Art and
Life 366 is an ambitious interdisciplinary and cross-cultural public art event
organized by the Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, China. From January
1st to December 31st 2008, a cultural event will take place everyday somewhere
in the city of Shanghai.
Yoko Ono will bring part of her
solo show to Shanghai and will intrude the city with a series of billboards."
love
Laing
Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Britain
April 19th - July 13th 2008
Entitled
Secret Piece III, Ono invites people to add photos or messages to someone they
love to a canvas in the Laing Art Gallery. As part of the group exhibition LOVE.
noise
- a hole in silence
Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
Until May 25th 2008
 Ansa:
"Japanese artist Ono presents We Are All Water (2006) - a series of 118 jars
half-full of water each labelled with the name of a famous historic person, the
idea being that - influential or not - everyone evaporates sooner or later."
now
then - alec finlay, janet hodgson, hew locke, paul morrison, yoko ono
The
Bluecoat, Liverpool, Britain
March 15th - May 4th 2008 "The
exhibition showcases specially commissioned work by 5 exceptional and diverse
artists. Yoko Ono shows in the galleries forty one years after her first ever
paid UK performance was given at the Bluecoat in 1967." Photos
of Yoko Ono at the Bluecoat
Information
about Yoko Ono's event at the Bluecoat
martian
museum of terrestrial art
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Britain
March
6th - May 18th 2008
"Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
presents contemporary art works under the fictional guise of a museum collection
conceived by and designed for extraterrestrials. Playful and irreverent, the museum’s
collection features some 175 works by over 115 artists, from modern masters to
bright new stars including" Yoko Ono.
body
exercises
The Dunaújváros Institute for Contemporary Arts,
Hungary
March 11th 2008
"At this unusual exhibition,
visitors are instructed to use the exhibited objects, thus giving a new purpose
to the exhibition hall, which is normally a place for quiet contemplation. Visitors
become partners of the artists and can test their own creative energies."
paul
mccarthy’s low life slow life: part 1
CCA Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts
February 7th - April 12th 2008
"Paul
McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life: Part 1 is the first half of an evolving, two-part
exhibition presenting sculpture, photography, painting, installation, drawing,
performance, video, music, magazines, books, images, memorabilia, documents, and
films." By Yoko Ono: film Fly
the
distance that keeps you
Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
December 18th
2007 - January 20th 2008
An exhibition of work by Vanessa
Albury, Yoko Ono and Bas Jan Ader.
arte para crianças
(art for children)
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil:
October
17th - December 2nd 2007 By Yoko Ono: Blue
Room Event, En Trance, Onochord
and three other artworks.
into the atomic sunshine
Post-War
Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9h
Puffin Room, New
York: January 12th 2008 - February 24th 2008 From the press
release: "The Constitution of Japan was essentially written by US army officials
from the General Headquarters (GHQ) in 1947. Parts of "Article 9", known
as the peace constitution, renounces war and possession of potentially belligerent
forces as the sovereign rights of the nation." By Yoko
Ono: Play It By Trust
a
spoken word exhibition
Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art, New York:
November
1st - 7th 2007
From the press release: "A Spoken Word
Exhibition consists of spoken artworks to be repeated by the institute's staff
only when viewers request them. Spoken artworks, exchanged as a gesture between
two people, generate a fleeting exhibition which disappears after words are spoken.
In providing only sonic artifacts, exhibitions of worded artworks, the curator
purposefully questions the viewers, ignites their listening capabilities, and
implicitly questions memory. Day and night after day and night, sound stacks upon
sound, spectators mentally accumulate lines, inevitably remembering and forgetting
these ephemeral sentences." Yoko Ono's Word of Mouth
Piece: I Love You!
making a home: japanese contemporary
artists in new york
Japan Society, New York: October 5th 2007 - January
13th 2008
From the press release: "To celebrate the
strong and historic cultural links between Japan and New York, Japan Society presents
this large-scale group exhibition featuring the work of 33 contemporary Japanese
artists who call New York City home, including Yoko Ono, Ushio Shinohara, Kunie
Sugiura, Yuken Teruya, and Aya Uekawa." By Yoko Ono:
My Mummy is Beautiful, Wish Tree, A Hole To See The
Sky Through
romantic conceptualism
BAWAG Foundation,
Vienna, Austria: September 1th - December 1st 2007
From the
press release, with thanks to Miki: "In 1962, Yoko Ono wrote: “Light
a match and watch till it goes out." For her Film No.1 (Match) (1966), Yoko
Ono, responding to an invitation by Fluxus artist George Macunias, has experimented
with a high-speed camera and recorded the burning of a match in extreme slow motion.
Thus, she transformed the banality of the process into a highly charged act condensing
a whole life into a single moment."
ensemble
Institute
of Contemporary Art / The University of Pennsylvania:
September 7th - December
16th 2007
"A group exhibition of works that make sound."
just
use it!
Aalborg, Denmark: June 14th - August 26th 2007
An
exhibition with Yoko Ono's Wish Tree
making
a home: japanese contemporary artists in new york
Japan
Society, New York: September 28th 2007 - January 13th 2008
From
the press release: "To celebrate the strong and historic cultural links between
Japan and New York, Japan Society presents this large-scale group exhibition featuring
the work of 33 contemporary Japanese artists who call New York City home, including
Yoko Ono, Ushio Shinohara, Kunie Sugiura, Yuken Teruya, and Aya Uekawa."
coexistence
International
Outdoor Exhibition of Art and Words on Diversity, Tolerance & Acceptance
Hartford,
Connecticut: May 26th - June 17th 2007
From the press release
(with thanks to Miki): "Coexistence is a giant public art exhibition featuring
approximately 45 billboard-sized images created by artists from around the world.
Each 9 foot by 15 foot art work is accompanied by a text panel that quotes leading
philosophers, writers and artists, such as John Lennon, Pablo Casals, Martin Luther
King and Yitzhak Rabin. The text panels are translated into four languages: English,
Spanish, French and German." By Yoko Ono: Sky,
Water
the history of the future
Franklin
Furnace, New York: April 27th 2007
 From
the press release: "The History of the Future, a one night only bash to celebrate
its 30 years of fostering, preserving, and proselytizing visionary art. Honoring
for their pioneering performance work: Marina Abramovic, Simone Forti, Claes Oldenburg,
Yoko Ono, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, and Judson Memorial Church, cradle
of experiment."
art, anti-art, non-art:
Experimentations
in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950 - 1970
The
Getty Center, Los Angeles: March 6th - June 3rd 2007
 From
the press release: "At the end of World War II, Japan was left in ruins and
a relative cultural void. During the next quarter century, Japan endured the legacy
of the atomic bomb, as well as the experiences of foreign occupation and a rapid
transformation into a metropolitan society. This exhibition highlights a dynamic
phase of avant-garde art in postwar Japan, which was characterized by self-reflection
and multimedia experimentation.
Sogetsu Art Center (SAC)
opened in 1958 at the head office of the Sogetsu flower arrangement school in
Tokyo. Throughout the 1960s, SAC was a center for experimental animation, film,
dance, and music. SAC presented concerts and an exhibition by Yoko Ono after her
return to Japan from New York, and sponsored the first public presentation of
the improvisational sound collective Group Ongaku (literally, "Group Music")." Symposium (Rajikaru!)
Experimentations in Japanese Art, 1950–1975
"Co-organized by
the Getty Research Institute and the PoNJA-GenKon (Post-1945 Japanese Art Discussion
Group/Gendai Bijutsu Kondankai), this daytime and evening festival of experimental
music, film, and performance art features works by Yoko
Ono, Ushio Shinohara, Takahiko Iimura, Jonouchi Motoharu, Nagano Chiaki, Zero
Dimension, and several others." For information about
reservations and tickets for some portions of the program, please call (310) 440-7300.
role
play: feminist art revisited 1960-1980
Galerie
Lelong, New York: March 15th - April 28th 2007
From the
press release: "The sexualization of women and their bodies, and the desire
to reclaim their bodies for themselves, are key elements to the exhibition. Marina
Abramovic, Lynda Benglis, Valie Export, Yoko Ono and Hannah Wilke propose differing
interpretations of female beauty and power." Yoko Ono's
contribution is her 1970 film Fly.
dreamy techniques
Broadway
Gallery, New York: March 1st - 15th 2007
 From
the press release: "Participating artists are: Jason Douglas Griffin, Nadiya
Jinnah, Hope Kelley, Heide-Marie Kull, Ayse Kucuk, Apryl Miller, Tom O’Hara,
Yoko Ono, and Marie-Josie Vielot. This exhibition has found its inspiration in
the teachings of Dov Chaim Ben Yosef. Even the lowest of the low amongst us, murderers,
rapists of children, men and women of violence and terror, do what they do in
pursuit of happiness. This pursuit of happiness is what drives us all, honestly
this is why we do anything we ever do."
Yoko Ono's contribution:
Box of Smile
advertising
by artists
Art Metropole,
Toronto, Canada: February 2007- April 2008
 From
the press release: "An international print-media project conceived to draw
attention to Art Metropole's online presence and services - as well as a vehicle
for the selected artists to express their own ideas. Over the coming 15-months,
we look forward to challenging the conventions of advertising with pure imagination.
The rules? Each ad-work must include Art Metropole's logo and website address...
the rest is... art. Welcome to Art Metropole."
Yoko
Ono's contributions: global media campaigns War Is Over (If You Want It) and Imagine
Peace.
centre
of the creative universe: liverpool and the avant-garde
Tate
Liverpool, Britain: February 20th - September 9th 2007  From
the press release: "Centre of the Creative Universe will include some of
the most prominent artists of the last fifty years such as Keith Arnatt, Bernd
& Hilla Becher, the Boyle Family, Jeremy Deller, Rineke Dijkstra, Adrian Henri,
Candida Höfer, John Latham, Yoko Ono, Martin Parr, Bob and Roberta Smith,
Sam Walsh and Tom Wood."
WACK!
art and the
feminist revolution
MOCA,
Los Angeles, California: March 4th - July 16th 2007
 From
the press release: "There had never been art like the art produced by women
artists in the 1970s--and there has never been a book with the ambition and scope
of this one about that groundbreaking era. WACK! documents and illustrates the
impact of the feminist revolution on art made between 1965 and 1980, featuring
pioneering and influential works by artists who came of age during that period--Chantal
Akerman, Lynda Benglis, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Valie Export, Mary Heilmann, Sanja
IvekoviE Ana Mendieta, Annette Messager, and others--as well as important
works made in those years by artists whose whose careers were already well established,
including Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Lucy
Lippard, Alice Neel, and Yoko Ono."
saigon
open city
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: 2006-2008
Artnet:
"The two-year-long art exhibition "Saigon Open City," organized
by Thai art superstar Rirkrit Tiravanija and Thai curator Gridthiya Gaweewong
for Vietnam’s Ho Chi Mihn City, has run into serious problems with censorship
by the ruling Vietnamese Communist Party. (--) In one particularly symbolic elision,
a version of the famous banner by John Lennon and Yoko Ono declaring "War
Is Over If You Want It," created in solidarity with the anti-Vietnam War
movement, was set to be hung across the façade of the War Remnants Museum,
but has yet to be installed."
altered, stitched
and gathered
P.S. 1 MoMA,
New York: December 14th 2006 - January 22nd 2007
Information
from Mikihiko Hori: Yoko Ono's contribution to this show is one of her instruction
pieces from her book Grapefruit. The
piece exhibited in this show is one of my favorite instruction pieces by Yoko
and is called "Painting for a broken sewing machine".
PAINTING FOR A BROKEN SEWING MACHINE
Place a broken sewing machine in
a glass tank ten or twenty times
larger than the machine. Once a year
on a snowy evening, place the tank
in the town square and have everyone
throw stones at it.
Yoko Ono
1961 Winter
riflemaker
becomes indica
Riflemaker,
London, Britain: November 20th 2006 - February 12th 2007  Press
release: "Our next exhibition will be a two part exploration of the Indica
gallery and its activities to coincide with the forty year anniversary of Indica's
opening in London in the mid-60s. John Dunbar's gallery was open for barely two
full years - November '65 - November '67 - but in that short time Indica, (from
'Indications' - somewhere to go), set the controls for the heart of experimental
art in Britain. With groundbreaking shows by Takis, Mark Boyle, Julio Le Parc,
Jesus Rafael Soto and Yoko Ono, Indica was very much 'of the moment'. But what
if you took that moment and transplanted it into the complex pick'n'mix world
of London now? Take one gallery which was representative of sixties free expression
and transport it to another, harsher, more organized, much more cynical art environment
? How does it look? How does it feel? Does Indica still turn you on?
 In
November 2006 Riflemaker becomes Indica; lock, stock and barrel. The gunshop will
temporarily disappear while Indica descends Tardis-like, on 79, Beak Street with
Dunbar taking care of the art and his collaborator, International Times founder
and best-selling author Miles looking after all things counter-cultural, forty
years after they disappeared into thin air."
January
15th 2007: Yoko Ono will discuss the concept "YES" with John Dunbar
at Riflemaker.
Read
more about this homage to Indica Gallery
expo
zaragoza 2008
Zaragoza, Spain: June 14th - September 14th 2008
Artnet:
"The vast Expo Zaragoza 2008, the $1-billion exposition currently under construction
on the Ebro River in Zaragoza, Spain -- Goya’s birthplace -- has the overall
theme of "water and sustainable development," and some 25 contemporary
artists are involved, all doing major projects in or on the water. (--) Artists
in the lineup include Anish Kapoor and Yoko Ono."
Past
group shows
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