Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist
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| March 21 2025 | Scheduled release of fourteenth studio album 'Selected Recordings From Grapefruit' on Karlrecords label, available in LP and CD formats |
| 2022 | Reissue of 'Who Has Seen the Wind?' single |
| 2022 | Reissue of 'No, No, No' and 'Nobody Sees Me Like You Do' singles from the 'Season of Glass' album |
| 2022 | Yoko Ono won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for her contribution to 'The Beatles: Get Back.' |
| August 24 2022 | Released the live album 'Let's Have a Dream: 1974 One Step Festival' through Super Fuji Discs, available on LP and CD formats. |
| February 4 2022 | Released 'Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono' album through Atlantic label on February 4th. |
| 2021 | Reissue of 'Listen, the Snow Is Falling' single |
| 2021 | Yoko Ono served as a producer and appeared as herself in the documentary series 'The Beatles: Get Back,' which featured archival footage. |
| November 2021 | In a New Yorker piece, it was noted that Ono had 'withdrawn from public life', with her son Sean acting as the family’s public representative. |
| February 18 2021 | On her 88th birthday, Ono was one of the founders of The Coda Collection, a service featuring music documentaries and concert films that launched in the U.S. |
| 2019 | Danny Brown featuring Run the Jewels releases '3 Tearz', which contains elements from Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band's song 'Why' |
| June 2019 | Yoko Ono presented her participatory installation Add Color (Refugee Boat) at Lower Manhattan's River to River Festival, emphasizing solidarity with immigrants and refugees by inviting audience participation to decorate a white rowing boat and room. |
| February 8 2019 | Released 'SuONO' album through Labellascheggia label on February 8th. |
| 2018 | Death Cab for Cutie's song 'Gold Rush' samples Yoko Ono's track 'Mind Train' from her album Fly |
| 2018 | Ono released 'Warzone', which includes new versions of previously recorded tracks. |
| 2018 | Ono was credited as a voice actress in the animated film 'Isle of Dogs,' where she voiced the character 'Assistant-Scientist Yoko-ono.' |
| 2016 | Ono's Imagine Peace exhibit returned to Houston after its initial showing in 2011. |
| October 2016 | Yoko Ono unveiled her first permanent art installation in the United States, titled 'Skylanding', located in Jackson Park, Chicago. The installation promotes peace and was inspired by her visit to the Garden of the Phoenix in 2013. |
| September 6 2016 | Secretly Canadian announced the re-issuing of 11 of Ono's albums from 1968 to 1985. |
| February 16 2016 | Manimal Vinyl released 'Yes, I'm a Witch Too', featuring remixes from various artists. |
| 2015 | Yoko Ono received the European Cultural Centre Art Award for her continuing efforts to promote 'Imagine Peace'. |
| 2015 | The Museum of Modern Art in New York City held a retrospective exhibition of Yoko Ono's early work, titled 'Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971'. |
| November 24 2015 | The installation of Arising by Yoko Ono was displayed until this date at the European Cultural Centre's Palazzo Bembo, concluding its exhibition. |
| June 1 2015 | Yoko Ono created the artwork titled Arising, which was part of the exhibition Personal Structures, organized by Global Art Affairs, and was on view at the European Cultural Centre's Palazzo Bembo in Venice. |
| January 13 2015 | Released 'Cut Pieces' album through Main Man label on January 13th. |
| 2014 | Yoko Ono installed 'Earth Peace' as part of the 2014 Folkestone Triennial, which included various media such as posters, stickers, billboards, and badges. Among the pieces, an inscribed stone, a flag flown annually on International Peace Day, and a beacon of light were placed in Folkestone. |
| 2014 | Yoko Ono presented her artwork Skyladder as part of the Folkestone Triennial, which is now also on loan to the town as part of the Folkestone Artworks collection. The piece is displayed in two locations: on a high wall of the Quarterhouse bar and in the staircase of the Folkestone public library. |
| 2014 | Ono's Imagine Peace exhibit opened at the Bob Rauschenburg Gallery at Florida SouthWestern State College in Fort Myers, Florida. |
| 2014 | The British band Elbow mentioned Yoko Ono in their song 'New York Morning' from their album The Take Off and Landing of Everything, prompting Ono to respond with an open letter on her website. |
| 2013 | Canadian singer Peaches reprised Cut Piece at the Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre in London, which was curated by Yoko Ono. |
| 2013 | Ono and the Plastic Ono Band released the LP 'Take Me to the Land of Hell', featuring several notable guest artists. |
| 2013 | Yoko Ono was a central theme in English comedian James Acaster's show Lawnmower, which gained recognition by being nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show. |
| July 2013 | Nearly fifty years after the original publication of Grapefruit, Yoko Ono released a sequel titled Acorn, which is another book of instructions, through OR Books. |
| June 2013 | Ono curated the Meltdown festival in London and played two concerts, including one with the Plastic Ono Band. |
| February 2013 | To coincide with her 80th birthday, the largest retrospective of Yoko Ono's work, 'Half-a-Wind Show', opened at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. |
| February 2013 | Ono accepted the Rainer Hildebrandt Medal at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie Museum, awarded for her and Lennon's work for peace. |
| January 2013 | At the age of 79, Ono along with her son Sean Lennon and Susan Sarandon protested against fracking in rural Pennsylvania under the banner of Artists Against Fracking. |
| 2012 | Received the Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award and co-founded Artists Against Fracking. |
| 2012 | Ono received the Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award. |
| 2012 | Paul McCartney revealed that he did not blame Yoko Ono for the breakup of the Beatles and acknowledged her influence on much of Lennon's post-Beatles work. |
| August 2012 | Ono, along with Sean Lennon and Mark Ruffalo, founded the Artists Against Fracking group to protest against hydraulic fracturing. |
| June 29 2012 | Ono received a lifetime achievement award at the Dublin Biennial. |
| June 19 2012 | Her work 'To the Light' was exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in London, coinciding with the London 2012 Festival. |
| March 2012 | Ono was awarded the Oskar Kokoschka Prize in Austria for her contributions. |
| January 2012 | A Ralphi Rosario mix of Ono's 1995 song 'Talking to the Universe' became her seventh consecutive No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. |
| 2011 | 'Move on Fast' became Ono's sixth consecutive number-one hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. |
| 2011 | The Imagine Peace exhibit featuring Ono's work was displayed in Houston through the Deborah Colton Gallery. |
| 2011 | Ono received the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize for her contributions to art and peace. |
| August 2011 | Ono made her documentary film 'Bed Peace' available for free on YouTube as part of her Imagine Peace website. |
| July 2011 | Visited Japan to support earthquake and tsunami victims, giving a lecture and performance 'The Road of Hope' at Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, and collecting the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize. |
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