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Date of Birth
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18-February-1933
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Place of Birth
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Tokyo
(Japan)
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Nationality
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Japan
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Also know as
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YÅko Ono, Ono, Yoko, Plastic Ono Band, Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, Yoko Onio Lennon, Yoko Ono Lennon, Yôko Ono, YÅko Ono, Ono YÅko, Yoko Ono Lennon, Yoko Ono Lennon, Yoko Ono, ヨーコ・オノ・レノン, å°é‡Ž æ´‹å, YÃ¥oko Ono, Йоко Оно Леннон
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Profession
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Singer, Artist, Musician, Film director, Film Producer, Author, Film Score Composer, Screenwriter, Actor
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Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking, as well as her 1969 to 1980 marriage to John Lennon.
Dropping out of the graduate track program in philosophy at Tokyo's Peers School, Ono moved to New York in 1953 joining her immediate family who were already there. She became involved in New York City's downtown artists scene, collaborating and working with members in and around the Fluxus group. An independent artist in her own right before meeting Lennon, both the media and the public were critical of Ono for years. She was repeatedly criticized for her influence over Lennon and his music, and blamed for the breakup of the Beatles, as the couple's early years coincided with the band's final ones. Her experimental art was also not popularly understood, and, after Lennon's death, disagreements with Paul McCartney received as much as attention as her billboards and music releases, which the media usually advanced simply as attempts at self-promotion.
This public perception shifted over time, helped by, among other things, an important retrospective at a Whitney Museum branch in 1989. This was followed by a 1992 interview in L.A.-based music magazine, Option which coincided with the release of the six-disc box set Onobox, which included remastered highlights from all of her solo albums including a one-disc "greatest hits" release of highlights. Retrospectives of her work were presented again at the Japan Society in New York City in 2001, Bielefeld, Germany, and the UK in 2008, and Frankfurt, Krems, Austria, and Bilbao, Spain in 2013. She received a Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement from the Venice Biennale in 2009 and the 2012 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria's highest award for applied contemporary art.
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