Yoko Ono

Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933) · Japan · Artists · also United States

Yoko Ono is read about 8,314 times a day, in 81 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 18 October 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 393 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?

Compare Claim

She entered the 1960s downtown art scene as an avant-garde conceptualist, then married a Beatle and became one of the most polarizing figures in popular culture - blamed for a breakup she didn't cause, dismissed for work that predated the relationship, and only decades later recognized as the dance-chart architect and...

Artists Singer / Musician Singer-Songwriter Classical Painting Television Photography Sculpture

A life in dates

2010Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts AwardAwardGreat Immigrants AwardAward2009“In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes, I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further.”In their words1 October 200925 Things Even My Best Friends Didn’t Know Until Now (1 October 2009).Read the whole statement

2007“I’m not that concerned about professional politicians. I always believe that we can change the world by grass-roots movements. It is a very important thing to do.”In their wordsquoted in "Imagine Peace - A Ray of Light in Dark Times" by Amy Goodman (2007)Read the whole statement

2005“There is a saying that a glass is half empty or half full, depending on how you look at it. Well, we all know that one.”In their wordsGame Is Not Over - 2005 Oxford Union AddressRead the whole statement

Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement AwardAward2000Grammy Award for Best Music FilmAward1982“Never say goodbye, You say tomorrow's another day, All I know is we're here today. I've got nightmares I could never share with you, The kind that keeps me up all night.”In their words"Never Say Goodbye" on It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982).Read the whole statement

1981“Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?”In their words"Walking On Thin Ice" on Season of Glass (1981) - YouTube videoRead the whole statement

Grammy Award for Album of the YearAward1980“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”In their wordsDecember 1980A line written by Ono many years before, and quoted by Lennon in December 1980, as quoted in All We Are Saying : The Last Major InterviewRead the whole statement

1933Born18 February 1933

Also in Deutsch

Photos 12

112 Chambers Street, the location of Ono's 1960s loft where Fluxus events took place, pictured in 2011.

Ono and John Lennon when they married, March 1969

Lennon and Ono at a bed-in at Hilton Amsterdam, March 1969

Lennon and Ono recording "Give Peace a Chance", at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, 1969

Ono and Lennon, c. 1971

The Dakota, Ono's residence from 1973 to 2023

Lennon and Ono in 1980, shortly before his murder

In their own words 10

Yoko Ono

10 statements, newest first

John and I felt that we were like people in an H. G. Wells story. Two people who are walking so fast that nobody else can see them.
Oct 1, 2009, 25 Things Even My Best Friends Didn’t Know Until Now (1 October 2009), Own words
In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes, I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further.
Oct 1, 2009, 25 Things Even My Best Friends Didn’t Know Until Now (1 October 2009)., Own words
I dedicate this light tower to John Lennon my love for you is forever yoko ono October 9th 2007
Oct 9, 2007, Dedication on the Imagine Peace Tower base (2007)., Own words

Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0

Listen

Spotify

Loads from Spotify when you press play

Open artist page on Spotify

On YouTube

89.7K subscribers

Open channel on YouTube

Awards

Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award2010

Great Immigrants Award2010

Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award2005

Grammy Award for Best Music Film2000

Grammy Award for Album of the Year1981

MOJO Awards

Family

Parents

Yoko Ono

Partners

Children

Sibling Setsuko Ono

Is this everyone?

Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong.

Correct this family

About this person

Born in Tokyo in 1933, Ono moved to New York in 1952 and joined the city's experimental art circles in the early 1960s, including the Fluxus movement. In 1969 she married John Lennon and the two formed the Plastic Ono Band, staging a bed-in honeymoon protest against the Vietnam War and recording together throughout the 1970s. Their collaboration Double Fantasy topped the charts and won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1980, released three weeks before Lennon was shot outside their Dakota apartment building on December 8. She continued alone, eventually placing twelve singles at number one on the US Dance charts and earning recognition from Billboard in 2016 as the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time. As Lennon's widow she funded memorials including Strawberry Fields in Central Park and the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, inaugurated the biennial LennonOno Grant for Peace in 2002, and co-founded Artists Against Fracking a decade later.

Country

Japan