Wish Tree

Yoko Ono was born in Toyo in 1933 and after finishing her study in philosophy in Japan, she moved to New York in 1953 and became part of the city’s vibrant avant-garde activities. Since the 1960’s Ono has had many exhibitions and performances around the world, many of which are now historically well remembered for their contributions to the progress of art history. Ono’s artistic formats have varied from fine art, music, film, performance, and poetry and she has influenced key artistic movements including, Fluxus, Conceptual Art, Video Art and Feminism. Photo by Synaesthete © Yoko Ono She has had numerous museum exhibitions. Recent large-scale museum shows include “Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971” at MOMA in 2015, and “YOKO ONO : FROM MY WINDOW” at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2015. In the 2000’s, “Y E S YOKO ONO”, organized by the Japan Society in New York traveled to 6 cities in North America from 2000-2002 and also traveled in Asia from 2003 to 2004, including 5 cities in Japan (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum, Mito Art Center etc.) In 2009 Ono participated in the Venice Biennale where she received the prestigious Golden Lion award for Lifetime Achievement. She received the award “the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize” and held a solo exhibition The Road of Hope in 2010. Selected Solo Exhibitions 2025 “A statue was here” Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi and Tennoz, Tokyo, Japan “YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany “TOUCH” Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany “MUSIC OF THE MIND” Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany 2024 “MUSIC OF THE MIND” Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany “YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND” Tate Modern, London, UK 2016 “Corner of Glass” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “AN INVISIBLE FLOWER” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Lumiere de l'Aube” Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, France 2015 “THE RIVERBED” Galerie Lelong/ Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY (-2016) “FROM MY WINDOW” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan “One Woman Show, 1960-1971” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY “Golden Ladders” Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, China "HIROSHIMA AIR CLOCK” International Conference Center Hiroshima, Japan [toured to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art/ Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum] 2013 “Half-A Wind Show-A Retrospective” Schim Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfur; Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, Spain; The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark “War Is Over! (If you want it)” Museum of Contemporery Art Australia, Sydney 2012 “LIGHT” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Our Beautiful Daughters” Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India “TO THE LIGHT I” Serpentine Gallery, London, UK “Grapefruit” Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 2010 “The Road of Hope -Yoko Ono 2011” (in celebration of her winning the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize), the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 2009 “Anton's Memory” Palazzetto Tito, Venezia, Italy 2008 “Yoko Ono Fly” Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts, Shanghai; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China “Wish Tree for Tokyo” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan “Imagine Peace Tower” Iceland Post, Reykjavik “Between the Sky and My Head” Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany “Touch Me” Galerie Lelong, New York, NY 2007 “Il Giorno Della Memoria” Galleria D'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy “Imagine Peace” University of Akron, OH “Fenster für Deutschland” Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany 2006 “Grapefruit” Berkeley Art Museum and Paci c Film Archive, The University of California, CA 2005 “Horizontal Memories” Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland “SKY TV for Hokkaido (permanent installation)” Tokachi Millennium Forest, Hokkaido, Japan 2003 “Yoko Ono Women's Room” Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France “Odyssey of a Cockroach” Deitch Projects, New York; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK 2000 “Yoko Ono -The Four Seasons and Film Stills” Ubu Gallery, New York, NY “Freight Train” Berlin; Yokohama Triennale, Kanagawa, Japan; MoMA PS1, New York, NY, USA; Detroit Institute of Arts "Ebro" Diputacion de Zaragoza, Spain “Tajo” Museo Vostell Malpartida, Caceres, Spain “YES YOKO ONO” Japan Society, New York, NY [toured to 13 museums in USA, Canada, from 2000-03. After that, the show toured Asia from 2003-4 including five cities in Japan which encompassed the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Art Tower Mito and the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.] 1999 “Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?” Israel Museum, Jerusalem “Impressions” Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway 1998 "Yoko Ono: En Trance" Andre Emmerich Galley, New York, NY “Wish Trees for Brazil” Theatro Nacional & Pantheo, Brasilia, Brazil 1997 “Conceptual Photography” Fotogra sk Center, Copenhagen; Toldkammaret, Helsingör, Denmark; Konsthallen Goteborg, Gothenburg, Sweden “En Trance-Ex It” Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain “Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?” Museum of Modern Art Oxford, UK; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany 1996 “Spots on the Wall and Blue Room” Gallery 360°, Tokyo, Japan “Mindscapes” Randers Kunstmuseum, Randers, Denmark “The Yoko Ono Film Festival Smile Event” Studio Stefania Miscetti/ 2RC Edizioni d'Arte, Roma, Italy “Fly” Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 1995 “Sphere 9” Fundacio Pilar i Joan Miro a Mallorca, Spain “3 rooms” Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy 1994 “Half Full/ Half Empty/ 2” Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA “Franklin Summer '94” Galerie und Edition Hundertmark, Cologne, Germany “Lighting Piece” Studio Stefania Miscetti, Roma, Italy 1993 “Waiting for the Sunrise: Exhibit A-O” Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA “Family Album” Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany “Glimpse” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloom eld Hills, MI “A Piece of Sky” Galleria Stefania Miscetti, Roma, Italy 1992 “Endangered Species 2319-2322” Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY ; Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Spiral Garden, Tokyo “Color, Fly, Sky” Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark 1991 “Birch Monologue” Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland “Peace! Fridur!” The Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Iceland 1990 “In Facing” Riverside Studios, London, UK/ Elwick Grover Aicken, Brighton, UK “To See the Skies” Fondazione Mudima/ Nuove Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, Milano, Italy “Insound/ Instructure” Sonia Henie and Niels Onstad Foundation, Hovikodden, Norway “En Trance” Randers Kunstmuseum, Denmark “Fumie” Sogetsukaikan, Tokyo, Japan 1989 “Objects, Films” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY “The Bronze Age” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloom eld Hills, MI, USA Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Grand Palais, Paris 1988 “Three Events“ Gallery of Art, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO 1971 “This Is Not Here” Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, NY 1968 “Water Show” Arts Lab Center, London, UK “Four Thoughts: Yoko Ono and John Lennon” Arts Lab Center, London, UK 1967 “Un nished Paintings and Objects” Camden Square, London, UK “Yoko Ono at Lisson: HALF-A-WIND SHOW aka YOKO ONO PLUS ME” Lisson Gallery, London, UK 1966 “Yoko at Indica” Indica Gallery, London, UK 1964 “STRIP-TEASE-SHOW (concert)” performed “Cut Piece” “Bag Piece” Sogetsu Kaikan Hall, Tokyo, Japan 1961 AG Gallery, New York, NY Selected Group Exhibitions 2025 “Forest of Tranquility” Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan “MOT Collection 30th Anniversary Exhibit Nine Profiles: 1935→2025” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan 2022 “JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE: Resistance and Resilience in Japanese Contemporary Art” PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy 2021 “Reborn-Art Festival 2021-22” Central Ishinomaki, Oshika Peninsula (Momonoura, Oginohama, Kozumi, Ayukawa), Around Onagawa Station, Miyagi, Japan 2019 “30th Anniversary Exhibition: The Seven Lamps of The Art Museum” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan 2018 “Catastrophe and the Power of Art” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2017 “Japanorama. New vision on art since 1970” Centre Pompidou-Metz, France 2013 “±1961: Founding the Expanded Arts” Museum Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain “Love, Now More Than Ever” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2012 “Invisible: Art about the Unseen, 1957–2012” Hayward Gallery/ South Bank Centre, London, UK “Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde” Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY “Explosion! Painting as Action” Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 2010 “Changing Channels: Art and Television 1963-1987” Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria “Aware -Art Fashion Identity” Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK 2009 “The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989” Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 2008 “Drawn in the Clouds” Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland “Far East” Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK “Dissonances: Japanese Six Artists” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan “Mobile Art : Chanel Contemporary Art Container By Zaha Hadid” Star Ferry Car Park, Hong Kong 2007 “Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York” Japan Society, New York, NY “All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan “Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentation in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970” Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 2002 “What's Fluxus? What's Not! Why” Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia 1999 “Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s” Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY 1993 “In the Spirit of Fluxus” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 1990 “Ubi Fluxus ibi motus: 1990-1962” Ex Granai della Republblica alle Zitelle/ Fondazione Mudima/Nuove Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, Venezia, Italy 1988 “Fluxus: Selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1966 “Judson Gallery Presents The Stone by Anthony Cox, Sound Forms by Michael Mason, Eye Bags by Yoko Ono, Film Message by Jeff Perkins, Air: Jon Hendricks” Judson Gallery, New York, NY