Editing Yoko Ono (section)

===Recognition and retrospectives===
[[File:'War Is Over! (if you want it) Yoko Ono' exhibition - Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (10867835755).jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|''War Is Over! (if you want it)''. Sydney, [[Museum of Contemporary Art Australia]], 2013. For this exhibition, she took a pair of Lennon's glasses and smeared blood on them, since the real bloodstained glasses Lennon wore on the day of his death were unavailable as she had sold them off.]]
John Lennon once described his wife as "the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does".<ref name=gp>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2012/jun/08/yoko-ono-retrospective-serpentine-conceptual |title=The Guardian Profile: Yoko Ono|last=Higgins|first=Charlotte|date=June 8, 2012|newspaper=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910143500/https://www.theguardian.com/global/2012/jun/08/yoko-ono-retrospective-serpentine-conceptual|archive-date=September 10, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Her circle of friends in the New York art world has included [[Kate Millett]], [[Nam June Paik]],{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|pp=23, 55}} [[Daniel Richter (actor)|Dan Richter]], [[Jonas Mekas]],{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=28}} [[Merce Cunningham]],{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=18}} [[Judith Malina]],{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=55}} Erica Abeel, [[Parol|Fred DeAsis]], Peggy Guggenheim,{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=82}} [[Betty Rollin]], [[Shusaku Arakawa]], [[Adrian Morris (painter)|Adrian Morris]], [[Stefan Wolpe]],{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=18}} [[Keith Haring]], and [[Andy Warhol]]{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=55}} (she was one of the speakers at Warhol's 1987 funeral), as well as George Maciunas and La Monte Young. In addition to Mekas, Maciunas, Young, and Warhol, she has also collaborated with DeAsis, [[Yvonne Rainer]]{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=22}} and Zbigniew Rybczyński.<ref>{{Citation |title=Yoko Ono: Hell in Paradise |date=1985-10-13 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7768970/#:~:text=very%20tall%20men.-,Director,Zbigniew%20Rybczynski,-Stars |type=Short, Music |access-date=2022-08-05 |archive-date=August 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805211834/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7768970/#:~:text=very%20tall%20men.-,Director,Zbigniew%20Rybczynski,-Stars |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1989, the [[Whitney Museum]] held a [[retrospective]] of her work, ''Yoko Ono: Objects, Films'', marking Ono's reentry into the New York art world after a hiatus. At the suggestion of Ono's live-in companion at the time, interior decorator [[Sam Havadtoy]], she recast her old pieces in bronze after some initial reluctance. "I realized that for something to move me so much that I would cry, there's something there. There seemed like a shimmering air in the 60s when I made these pieces, and now the air is bronzified. Now it's the 80s, and bronze is very 80s in a way – solidity, commodity, all of that. For someone who went through the 60s revolution, there has of course been an incredible change. . . . I call the pieces petrified bronze. That freedom, all the hope and wishes are in some ways petrified."<ref name=Whit>{{cite news|first=Paul|last=Taylor|author-link=Paul Taylor (art critic) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/arts/art-yoko-ono-s-new-bronze-age-at-the-whitney.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|title=Yoko Ono's New Bronze Age at the Whitney|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 5, 1989|access-date=January 31, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113183517/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/arts/art-yoko-ono-s-new-bronze-age-at-the-whitney.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|archive-date=November 13, 2013}}</ref>

Over a decade later, in 2001, ''Y E S YOKO ONO'', a 40-year retrospective of Ono's work, received the [[International Association of Art Critics]] USA Award for Best Museum Show Originating in New York City, considered one of the highest accolades in the museum profession. YES refers to the title of a 1966 sculptural work by Yoko Ono, shown at Indica Gallery, London: viewers climb a ladder to read the word "yes", printed on a small canvas suspended from the ceiling.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walkerart.org/archive/A/AA7391E41BD0C90E616F.htm|title=MARCH 10-JUNE 17, 2001 Y E S YOKO ONO|year=2000|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502080202/http://www.walkerart.org/archive/A/AA7391E41BD0C90E616F.htm|archive-date=May 2, 2015}}</ref> The exhibition's curator [[Alexandra Munroe]] wrote that "John Lennon got it, on his first meeting with Yoko: when he climbed the ladder to peer at the framed paper on the ceiling, he encountered the tiny word YES. 'So it was positive. I felt relieved.'"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alexandramunroe.com/spirit-of-yes-the-art-and-life-of-yoko-ono-2/|title=Spirit of YES: The Art and Life of Yoko Ono|year=2000|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307183246/http://www.alexandramunroe.com/spirit-of-yes-the-art-and-life-of-yoko-ono-2/|archive-date=March 7, 2016|access-date=August 4, 2015}}</ref> The exhibition traveled to 13 museums in the U.S., Canada, Japan, and Korea from 2000 through 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alexandramunroe.com/exhibitions/yes-yoko-ono/|title=YES Yoko Ono Exhibition Details|date=August 4, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150726160137/http://www.alexandramunroe.com/exhibitions/yes-yoko-ono/|archive-date=July 26, 2015|access-date=August 4, 2015}}</ref> In 2001, she received an honorary [[Doctorate of Laws]] from [[Liverpool University]] and, in 2002, was presented with the honorary degree of [[Doctor of Fine Arts]] from [[Bard College]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=490|title=Visual and Recording Artist Yoko Ono To Be Awarded An Honorary Degree at Bard College on Tuesday, October 29 (press release)|access-date=October 28, 2011|publisher=Bard College website|date=October 17, 2002|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027212411/http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=490|archive-date=October 27, 2012}}</ref>
and the Skowhegan Medal for work in assorted media.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=MoMA/P.S.1|url=http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/52|title=Yoko Ono: Freight Train|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413080205/http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/52|archive-date=April 13, 2014|access-date=April 18, 2014}}</ref> The next year, she was awarded the fifth MOCA Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts from the [[Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sites.moca.org/thecurve/2013/09/03/the-8th-moca-award-to-distinguished-women-in-the-arts-luncheon/|title=The Curve: The 8th MOCA Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts Luncheon|date=September 3, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203065233/http://sites.moca.org/thecurve/2013/09/03/the-8th-moca-award-to-distinguished-women-in-the-arts-luncheon/|archive-date=February 3, 2014|access-date=April 19, 2014}}</ref> In 2005, she received a lifetime achievement award from the [[Japan Society of New York]], which had hosted ''Yes Yoko Ono''<ref>{{cite news|title=Yoko Ono wins achievement award|newspaper=[[Japan Times]]|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/04/08/national/yoko-ono-wins-achievement-award/|access-date=April 18, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104145448/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/04/08/national/yoko-ono-wins-achievement-award/#.U1GepSRn8rw|archive-date=November 4, 2013}}</ref> and where she had worked in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

In 2008, she showed a large retrospective exhibition, ''Between The Sky and My Head'', at the [[Kunsthalle Bielefeld]], Bielefeld, Germany, and the [[Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art]] in Gateshead, England. The following year, she showed a selection of new and old work as part of her show "Anton's Memory" in Venice, Italy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/tag/antons-memory|title=Yoko Ono: Anton's Memory [Pallazetto Tito, Venice, Italy] – *VIDEO*|access-date=February 23, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219090243/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/tag/antons-memory|archive-date=December 19, 2010}}. imaginepeace.com</ref> She also received a [[Golden Lion Award]] for lifetime achievement from the [[Venice Biennale]] in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/archive/exhibition/awards/|title=53rd International Art Exhibition: Jury and Awards|publisher=La Biennale di Venezia|access-date=October 28, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028121421/http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/archive/exhibition/awards|archive-date=October 28, 2011}}</ref> In 2012, Ono held a major exhibition of her work ''To The Light'' at the [[Serpentine Galleries]], London.<ref>[http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/yoko-ono-light Yoko Ono: To The Light 2012] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204170617/http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/yoko-ono-light |date=February 4, 2015 }} at the Serpentine Galleries, London</ref> She was also the winner of the 2012 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria's highest award for applied contemporary art.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17237037|title=Yoko Ono wins Oskar Kokoschka art prize in Austria|work=BBC News|date=March 2, 2012|access-date=November 11, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623062818/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17237037|archive-date=June 23, 2012}}</ref> In February 2013, to coincide with her 80th birthday, the largest retrospective of her work, ''Half-a-Wind Show'', opened at the [[Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt]]<ref name="my.entertainment.yahoo.com"/><ref name=Krems/>
and travelled to Denmark's [[Louisiana Museum of Modern Art]],<ref name=Blouin/> Austria's Kunsthalle Krems, and Spain's [[Guggenheim Museum Bilbao]].<ref name=Krems>{{cite web|url=http://www.kunsthalle.at/en/kunsthalle-krems/exhibitions/yoko-ono|title=Retrospective. Yoko Ono. Half-a-Wind Show|publisher=Kunsthalle Krems|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104234512/http://www.kunsthalle.at/en/kunsthalle-krems/exhibitions/yoko-ono|archive-date=November 4, 2013}}</ref><ref name=SBank>{{cite web|url=http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/yoko-ono-plastic-ono-band-74196|title=YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND Part of Festival of Neighbourhood and Meltdown Royal Festival Hall Friday 14 June 2013|publisher=[[Southbank Centre]] website|access-date=November 11, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412062619/http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/yoko-ono-plastic-ono-band-74196|archive-date=April 12, 2013}}</ref>
In 2014 she contributed several artworks to the triennial Folkestone art festival. In 2015 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City held a retrospective exhibition of her early work, "Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960– 1971".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1494?locale=en|title=Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971 – MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|access-date=June 24, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621031841/https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1494?locale=en|archive-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref> In 2015, Yoko Ono received the European Cultural Centre Art Award for her continuing efforts to promote "Imagine Peace".<ref>{{Cite web |title=ALL ECC AWARDS |url=https://ecc-italy.eu/eccaward/alleccawards |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=ecc-italy.eu}}</ref>