小野 洋子
オノ・ヨーコ
Yoko Ono
攝於巴西聖保羅大學當代藝術館,2007年。
出生 (1933-02-18) 1933年2月18日91歲)
 日本東京
職業藝術家、和平活動家、歌手
配偶
兒女京子·考克斯(Kyoko Cox
西恩·連儂
網站http://imaginepeace.com
音樂生涯
音樂類型
演奏樂器人聲、敲擊樂、鋼琴
活躍年代1961年—現今
唱片公司
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小野洋子(日語:小野 洋子オノ・ヨーコ Ono Yōko ?,1933年2月18日)是一位日本多媒體藝術家、歌手及和平活動家。她是約翰·連儂的第二任妻子和遺孀,知名於她在前衛藝術、音樂和電影領域的作品[1]

小野在東京長大,就讀於學習院大學。她在大二結束後退學,於1953年到紐約與家人團聚。她到莎拉勞倫斯學院學習,接着進入了紐約市中心的藝術家圈,包括激浪派團體。小野於1966年在她的倫敦展覽上第一次遇見連儂,兩人在1968年成為戀人。

Ono and Lennon famously used their honeymoon as a stage for public protests against the Vietnam War with their Bed-Ins for Peace in Amsterdam and Montreal in 1969. She brought feminism to the forefront in her music, influencing artists as diverse as the B-52s and Meredith Monk.  Ono achieved commercial and critical acclaim in 1980 with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, released with Lennon three weeks before his death. 

Public appreciation of Ono's work has shifted over time, helped by a retrospective at a Whitney Museum branch in 1989 and the 1992 release of the six-disc box set Onobox. Retrospectives of her artwork have also been presented at the Japan Society in New York City in 2001, in Bielefeld, Germany, and the UK in 2008, and Frankfurt, 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.

As Lennon's widow, Ono works to preserve his legacy. She funded Strawberry Fields in New York City, the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, and the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan (which closed in 2010). She has made significant philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace, Philippine and Japan disaster relief, and other causes. Ono continues her social activism, inaugurating a biennial $50,000 LennonOno Grant for Peace in 2002 and co-founding the group Artists Against Fracking in 2012. She has a daughter, Kyoko Chan Cox, from her marriage to Anthony Cox and a son, Sean Taro Ono Lennon, with whom she collaborates musically, from her marriage to Lennon.

  1. ^ Yoko Ono retrospective opens in Frankfurt. Yahoo Malaysia. February 16, 2013.