Current group shows
Yoko Ono related solo shows
Yoko Ono's exhibitions from 1961 to present

mass production: artists’ multiples and the marketplace
Emily Davis Gallery at The University of Akron: October 30th - December 1st 2006

Press release: "Mass Production features approximately 100 works by artists such as Duchamp, Dali, Ono, Warhol, Oldenburg, Murakami, and many others. Within a loosely chronological format, the exhibition explores the various distribution channels through which multiples have been made available. The curator of Mass Production, Dr. Kevin Concannon, Assistant Professor of Art History at The University of Akron, has actively engaged students in the Multiples project, as a special topics class at Myers researched and wrote catalogue entries, while a summer graphic design class with UA Professor Christopher Hoot worked to produce the exhibition’s catalogue."

By Yoko Ono: Fly multiple issued by Virginia Commonwealth University Anderson Gallery, 1996, and a section on Box of Smile, the Freight Train and the Shit Must Stop with Mend Piece for John.

newark between us
The National Newark Building, Newark: October 22nd - December 17th 2006

Star-Ledger: "I think Yoko's piece is just the perfect metaphor for Newark, which really is putting itself back together with these shows," says curator Rupert Ravens, who is organizing "Newark Between Us" for the Newark Arts Council. "It's called her 'Mend Piece,' and it's two white chairs and a white table. On the table there are a couple of shattered teacups, some tape, string, and glue. You can sit down and actually mend the teacups or you can just do it in your mind." (Organizers say they don't know if Ono will attend the show.)"

it’s time for action (there's no option)
Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, CH
August 26th - October 22nd 2006

By Yoko Ono: the exhibition title, Walking On Thin Ice video (1981).

WORD
Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas: Sept 16th through Nov 4th 2006

By Yoko Ono: Imagine Piece billboard, Forget it, 1988 (bronze version of 1966 work), Pointedness, 1988 (bronze version of 1964 work), To Be Appreciated Only When It's Broken, 1988 (bronze version of 1967 work).

artists at work:
instruction drawings from the collection of gilbert and lila silverman
Cranbrook Art Museum, September 16th 2006 - October 29th 2006

From the press release: "At what point in the creative process does a work become an artwork? Artists at Work illuminates the nature of art by focusing on the creative process---offering insight into the artist’s eventful path and phases in the production of artworks. The exhibition includes over 180 examples of instruction drawings in a variety of forms, such as working drawings, installation instructions, musical scores, sketches, visual or textual memoranda, fabrication notes, and work records."

Includes pieces by Yoko Ono.

pattern language: clothing as communicator
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis: October 14th - December 31st 2006

Pioneer Press (Sept 10 2006): "Artists and designers from around the globe probe the diverse roles clothing plays in society in the exhibition "Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator." With six themes - the Everyman, Multi-Tasking, Container/Contained, (Un)Clothed, Construction/Creation and Identity - the message of clothing is explored through various variables, including the material, shape and lack of clothing. Included in the exhibit is Yoko Ono's "Cut Piece" (1965), which examines the relationship between clothing and human vulnerability."

the "f" word
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh: May 27th - September 3rd 2006

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (May 25th 2006): ""She's the one person who wanted to show an older work," says Thomas, who'd planned to exhibit current work by all exhibitors. But this was Yoko Ono, who can write her own ticket. "It was an intentional or not hijacking of the show," Thomas says with a smile, "which is a very Fluxus thing to do." The work she sent is a self-published book, "The Museum of Modern (F) Art," that documents an action that took place in the 1960s or early 1970s, Thomas says. At the time, MoMA was notorious for its male bias, and the work straightforwardly expressed what many artists, especially women, thought of the museum at the time. Photographs show Ono approaching the front of the museum carrying the brown shopping bag with a large "F" painted on the side (also in the exhibition) that she would place in front of the museum's facade, altering its name. Humorously, another photograph shows Ono's photograph in the museum's ticket booth marked "this is not here." Thomas says it "was there, because she did this action there. But it didn't have the sanction of MoMA."

And, a postscript: Ono did create a new text piece for the show, "The Bed Biography." What, in the end, Thomas asks, is more important -- the standard stuff of biography that are the grand gestures of public record, or those intimate and humane moments in one's life?"

to the human future - flight from the dark side
Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan: Feb. 25th - May 7th 2006

By Yoko Ono: Endangered Species 2319-2322

the garden party
Deitch Projects, NYC: March 9th - May 13th 2006

Press release: "Deitch Projects cordially invites you to attend The Garden Party, an exhibition and performance program that creates a contemporary version of the fête champêtre. Following the art historical theme established by Giorgione and Edouard Manet of the erotic garden our exhibition project will attempt to update this theme in a contemporary context."

By Yoko Ono: Wish Tree

fluxus: to george with love
- from the personal collection of jonas mekas
Maya Stendhal Gallery, NYC: Feb. 16th - April 15th 2006

George "Maciunas attracted brilliant and creative collaborators, such as Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik and Dick Higgins, in various collective efforts. He and his contemporaries worked to explore multimedia, combining it with performance art, poetry, experimental sound, music, film and video."

Fluxfilm Anthology films in this exhibition include Yoko Ono's films from 1966: Fluxfilm No. 9: Eyeblink, Fluxfilm No. 14: One and Fluxfilm No. 16: Four.

snow show
Sestriere, Italy: February 6th - March 19th 2006

By Yoko Ono and Arata Isozaki, a piece titled Penal Colony. This piece was also created for the Snow Show in Finland in 2004.

CIRCA Art Magazine (in 2004, about the piece in Finland's Lapland): "Yoko Ono and architect Arata Isozaki collaborated on Penal colony, a monumental ice room housing an imprisoning maze of frozen walls. Sited six kilometres north of Rovaniemi, its isolated location was crucial to the artist's concept. "The work is on the Arctic Circle and rings the top of the world," says Jon Hendrix, Yoko's personal curator. With a design brief to build a structure no larger than one hundred square metres, no higher than nine metres, and consisting of no less than 80% snow or ice, the ice jail was haunting under the psychedelic aurora borealis (northern lights)."

from the art of new york
World Financial Center's Winter Garden, NY: Feb 22nd -28th 2006

The one-of-a-kind exhibition, featuring 100 works of art by New York and Gulf Coast artists, is free and open to the public. Artists include Christo and Jeanne-Claude; Yoko Ono; LeRoy Neiman; Peter Max; Tom Otterness; Kendall Shaw; Danny Simmons; Stuart Davis; Gregory Amenoff; De La Vega; Kiki Smith and many others. "From The Art Of New York" is a fundraiser to benefit Katrina victims.

visual arts showcase: personal best
WCNY, Syracuse, NY: December 20th 2005 - January 27th 2006

The Post-Standard: "As a bonus show on view in one of the glass display cases lining the building's hallway. A set of photographs of Yoko Ono's opening at the Everson Museum of Art in October 1971."

looking at words:
the formal presence of text in modern and contemporary works on paper
Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY: October 28th 2005 - January 14th 2006

By Yoko Ono:
Piece for Nam June Paik No. 1
water
March 27, 1964 Yoko Ono
Ink on paper

Yoko Ono's new piece "On line" (2005) consists of 11 pieces in total:

• This line is shadow y.o. '05
• This line is a wind y.o. '05
• This line is forgotten y.o. '05
• This line is love y.o. '05
• This line is me y.o. '05
• This line is sleeping y.o. '05
• This line is only in your mind y.o. '05
• This line is very sweet y.o. '05
• This line will connect you and me y.o. '05
• This line tells my story y.o. '05
• This line is waiting y.o. '05
  
  

art with an aftertaste
Art Basel Miami Beach: December 1st - 4th 2005

AP: "Visionaire and New York-based International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. spent about a year on the project. The resulting 12 collaborations include "Mommy," a condensed milk flavor accompanied by a photo of a woman's breast by Yoko Ono. There also are highly conceptual tastes like "Power," the flavor of sea spray and sweat envisioned by surfer Laird Hamilton and accompanied by a photo of his back. Visitors have reacted with both delight and disgust to the pairings."

war is over 1945-2005
GAMeC Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy: October 15th 2005 - February 15th 2006

Ansa: "The show collects some 100 anti-war works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Otto Dix, Paul Klee, George Groz, Jasper Johns and Giacomo Balla. It will also feature the poster designed in 1969 by John Lennon and Yoko Ono 'War is Over-If you want it'."

vancouver international sculpture biennale
Vancouver, Canada: from October 2005

By Yoko Ono: Imagine Peace billboard

artworks for life:
presented by midwest aids prevention project
Masonic Temple in Detroit: September 24th 2005

Besides featuring art by a few hundred metro Detroit artists, this anniversary showcase includes a white-on-white painting by Yoko Ono entitled "I Love You".

pattern language: clothing as communicator
Tufts University Art Museum, Medford: through November 13th 2005

The Boston Globe: "The 43-piece exhibition, organized by Boston-based independent curator Judith Hoos Fox includes a film of Yoko Ono's 1964 performance, ''Cut Piece,'' where Ono considers issues surrounding clothing and the self by having audience members snip off pieces of her garment."

lyon biennial
Lyon, France: September 14th - December 31st 2005

PRNewswire: "This year, the Lyon Biennial is exhibiting works from the seventies (Andy Warhol, Gordon Matta-Clark, Yoko Ono, Terry Riley...) alongside contemporary creations (Kader Attia, Martin Creed, Spencer Tunick...). Thus, the overall impact in both spatially and temporally broad. Indeed, the works on display form a powerful collection of sensory experiences and invite active participation from visitors."

at the mercy of others: the politics of care
Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, City University of New York:
May 18th - June 25th 2005

Press release: "The show features the work of Eleanor Antin; Robert Blanchon; AA Bronson; Sophie Calle; Teresa Dulce and Marne Lucas of Danzine; Alia Hasan-Khan; Alfredo Jaar; Mike Kelley; Mary Kelly; Elena Kovylina; Kristina Leko; Joanna Malinowska; Annette Messager; Christian Philipp Müller and Jane Johnston; Yoko Ono; Adrian Piper; and Ernest Truely, Danielle Brans, and Sean Smith.Each artist maps care through a continuum of psychological dynamics, from narcissism to obsession, aggression to violence, guilt to obligation. The works in At the Mercy of Others: The Politics of Care question the assumption that caring for another is a natural impulse. While rejecting the sentimental and sometimes disingenuous uses of the term, the exhibition argues that care must remain a crucial ethical concept. Ultimately, the exhibition foregrounds a human subject in need of care-vulnerable, dependent, and at the mercy of others."

e-flux video rental
Moore Space, Miami: through August 2005

Miami New Times: "The project is based on a corporate model; organizers tapped 40 international curators to select films that showcase the spectrum of contemporary art cinema with a democratic eye on dissemination. Available titles include works by Dara Friedman, Spike Jonze, Yoko Ono, and Rirkrit Tiravanija."

arts initiative marks hiroshima-nagasaki anniversary in august 2005

Artnet.com: "A global arts initiative is planned to mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on Aug. 6, 2005, sponsored by the Mayors for Peace and EPOP International. The initiative kicks off with a benefit art auction in New York, scheduled for May 3, 2005, at Ruby Falls, a space on West 29th Street in Chelsea. The benefit sale is being conducted by Christie's and features works by Jerry Kearns, Julian LeVerdiere, Yoko Ono and Tom Otterness. Proceeds from the sale go to Nihon Hidankyo, an organization of A-bomb survivors based in Japan. The initiative also includes plans for a "Back to the Garden" benefit concert at Madison Square Garden on July 25, plus a related traveling public art exhibition that is planned to open in New York on Aug. 6."

a benefit for the drug policy alliance
at the Cheim & Read Gallery in New York: March 29th 2005, 6-8pm

fear dust: fallout of the invasion
Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica: March 19th - April 16th 2005

Yoko's Imagine Peace Desk is her contribution to this group exhibition.

vancouver international sculpture biennale
Installation will begin in June 2005 with the official launch in September 2005. Works will be installed until September 2006 in public areas throughout Vancouver including Coal Harbour, Granville Island, English Bay and downtown avenues in Canada.

taipei biennale
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan: October 23rd 2004 - January 23rd 2005

According to Taiwan News (September 21st 2004), "To display a broad array of disciplines, the exhibition's two curators - Amy Cheng Huei-hua from Taiwan and Barbara M.R. Vanderlinden from Belgium - have brought together the works of five creative teams and 30 individual artists, including Japanese-American Yoko Ono and Franco-Belgian Agnes Varda."

flight
LIFT Contemporary, Cherokee, North Carolina, US: through January 22nd 2005

Artworks by Yoko Ono, Johan Grimonprez, Stephen Vitiello, Zhao Liang.

work ethic
Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University: through January 2nd 2005

By Yoko Ono: Sky TV