1987 Yoko Ono received Helen Caldicott leadership award for efforts to promote peace.

1997 Yoko Ono received an Honorary Doctorate from The Art Institute Of Chicago.

2001 Yoko Ono shared the Grammy Award as one of four producers for Gimme Some Truth - The Making Of John Lennon's Imagine Album as the Best Long Form Music Video.

2001 Yoko Ono received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Liverpool University as a recognition of her artistic work and her patronage of the John Lennon Memorial Scholarship Fund which she founded in 1991.

2001 The retrospective exhibition YES Yoko Ono won an award for Best Museum Show NYC Origination presented by The US Art Critics Association.

2002 Yoko Ono won a Skowhegan’s award 2002 for assorted mediums in art.

2002 Yoko Ono was presented with an award by Lifespire, a not-for-profit agency serving people with developmental disabilities.

2002 Yoko Ono was awarded an honorary degree of doctor of fine arts at Bard College.

2003 The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) honoured artist Yoko Ono, at the fifth MOCA Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts.

2005 Yoko Ono received a Lifetime Achievement Award at IMAJINÉ 2005, the Japan Society Arts & Culture Gala Benefit.

2006 Yoko Ono was awarded the International Prize for Visual Arts 2006 of the Cristobal Gabarron Foundation, Spain.

2008 Yoko Ono was awarded the Distinguished Body of Work Award 2008 by College Art Association.

Biography credits

The sources: A Journey Through John Lennon's Life And Times In Words And Pictures by John Robertson, Lennon by Ray Coleman, She's A Rebel by Gillian G. Gaar, and several interviews with Yoko Ono from the press.