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YOKO ONO HONORED WITH PRESTIGIOUS MACDOWELL MEDAL IN RECOGNITION OF WORK ACROSS
DISCIPLINES

YOKO ONO – artist, musician, and activist will be celebrated during a free
outdoor public celebration on July 21 featuring artists’ open studios.

Arts icon and activist YOKO ONO is this year’s recipient of the prestigious
Edward MacDowell Medal. Ono, whose ground-breaking and influential career as an
artist began in the downtown New York scene in the early 1960s and has continued
across seven decades, has developed a body of work encompassing performance,
experimental filmmaking, conceptual and participatory art, music, visual arts,
and global peace activities. The breadth of her pioneering work runs from the
avant-garde to the pop and dance music charts.

“It’s an incredible honor that my mother, Yoko Ono, will be awarded the
MacDowell Medal,” said her son Sean Ono Lennon. “The history and list of past
recipients is truly remarkable. It makes me very proud to see her art
appreciated and celebrated in this way.”

MacDowell, the nation’s oldest and preeminent artist residency program, has
awarded the Medal annually since 1960 to giants of the art world, selecting
individuals who have had an indelible impact on culture.

“MacDowell is honored to celebrate Yoko Ono for her groundbreaking, distinctly
inventive, and enormously influential interdisciplinary art,” said Madam
Chairman of the Board, Fellow, and best-selling author Nell Painter. “There has
never been anyone like her; there has never been work like hers. Over some seven
decades, she has rewarded eyes, provoked thought, inspired feminists, and
defended migrants through works of a wide-ranging imagination. Enduringly fresh
and pertinent, her uniquely powerful oeuvre speaks to our own times, so sorely
needful of her leitmotif: Peace.”

Painter will present the 64th
MacDowell Medal to Ono’s long-time music manager David Newgarden in a brief
ceremony on Medal Day, Sunday, July 21. Ono, the first Asian woman to receive
the honor, joins a notable cohort of past Medal recipients, including Robert
Frost (1962), Willem de Kooning (1975), Isamu Noguchi (1982), Louise Bourgeois
(1990), Stephen Sondheim
(2013), Toni Morrison (2016), David Lynch (2017), and Art Spiegelman (2018).

“Her seminal performance work Cut Piece
confronts issues of gender, class, and cultural identity, immediately becoming
the feminist classic it remains,” added Painter. “Early in the Vietnam War, Ono
and her husband John Lennon collaborated on ‘Give Peace a Chance’ and ‘War Is
Over,’ adding ‘If you want it.’ Words we cherish right now. Only one other
interdisciplinary artist, Merce Cunningham in 2003, has received the Edward
MacDowell Medal. We are thrilled that Yoko Ono has honored us in this way.”

Read a brief biography of Yoko Ono here.

American avant-garde multimedia artist, Grammy-winning composer, and musician
Laurie Anderson chaired this year’s Medal selection panel. Other members
included Bushwick Starr Arts Center cofounder and MacDowell Board member Noel
Allain, MacDowell Fellow and acclaimed choreographer Bebe Miller, National Black
Theatre CEO Sade Lythcott, MacDowell Fellow and interdisciplinary artist
Christopher Doyle, and Arts Student League Artistic & Executive Director Michael
Hall.

The presentation of the Edward MacDowell Medal in the Arts is a free, public
event on July 21, 2024, which often draws more than 1,000 visitors from around
the country to MacDowell’s 450-acre wooded campus. It is the one day each year
the grounds are open to the public, and it offers arts lovers the opportunity to
visit 31 open, working studios to see art being created and speak with the
artists-in-residence.

MacDowell is now on the Bloomberg Connects app, and the public can download a
free digital guide to MacDowell to plan their Medal Day. Download the app and
find our mobile guide by clicking here.

This event is made possible with the support of generous individual contributors
and business sponsors including FL Putnam and RiverMead Lifecare Community.

Link to article on Macdowell website.




ABOUT YOKO ONO


INTERDISCIPLINARY ART – PERFORMANCE

Yoko Ono

Region: New York
More: www.imaginepeace.com
Medalist: 2024 Medal Day

Yoko Ono is an artist, musician, and activist who grew up in Japan before
becoming the first woman admitted to the philosophy program at Gakushuin
University, Tokyo, where she studied before moving to New York to attend Sarah
Lawrence College.

In 1956 she settled in Manhattan with her then husband, composer Toshi
Ichiyanagi and became immersed in a community of artists and composers, and
developed her own art practice. In 1960 Ono rented a loft on Chambers Street in
Lower Manhattan and began organizing performances and events in the space,
becoming a vital part of the New York avant-garde scene.

In 1961, Ono’s first solo exhibition at George Maciunas’ AG Gallery featured
Painting To Be Stepped On, a work of canvas placed on the floor with a card
inviting the viewer to step on it, was one of several Instruction Paintings
exhibited. She also performed works involving movement, sound, and voice
including, AOS – To David Tudor, and A Grapefruit in the World of Park at
Carnegie Recital Hall. More performances followed at the Sogetsu Art Center in
Tokyo including, The Pulse, and Instructions for Paintings, this time comprising
only written instruction, marking a key moment in the history of conceptual art.
She performed with John Cage on a concert tour throughout Japan, and in 1964,
performed Cut Piece and Bag Piece in Kyoto and Tokyo, and self-published
Grapefruit, her foundational book of instructions.

In 1965 Ono returned to New York, continuing to perform and pioneering new ways
of disseminating her art through advertising and postcard events, and began
making her own films, including Film No. 4, Match and Eyeblink.

In the fall of 1966, Ono was invited to London to perform and lecture in the
Destruction in Art Symposium. Ono had a solo exhibition at Indica Gallery, and
Lisson Gallery the following year, showing new conceptual object-based works
like White Chess Set, Apple, and Half-A-Room. At her Indica show she met John
Lennon, beginning a personal and artistic relationship in art, film, music, and
activism. During this period, she also performed concerts throughout England and
continued making new films, including a new version of Film No. 4 (Bottoms). By
1968 Lennon and Ono’s conceptual events to promote peace had become world-wide
news, including the Bed-In for Peace held in an Amsterdam hotel room during
their honeymoon in 1969 and later in Montreal.

In the early 1970s Ono’s activities, along with Lennon, primarily centered
around music and activism, releasing five solo and collaborative albums over
three years. In 1971 Ono had her first retrospective, This Is Not Here, at the
Everson Art Museum. Later that year, Museum of Modern [F]art, Ono’s unofficial
conceptual exhibition at the museum was advertised in the Village Voice and
documented as a new film.

In 1975 the birth of their son Sean Ono Lennon led the couple to take a break
from public life.

In August 1980, Ono and Lennon returned to the studio to record their first
album together since 1972. Double Fantasy was released in November and went on
to win the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Less than a month after its
release, Lennon was shot and killed outside their home in New York.

Emerging from the tragedy of Lennon’s death, Ono immersed herself in making
music, releasing several albums during the decade. “It was the music that made
me survive” Ono said. After a long absence from exhibiting her art in museums
and galleries, Ono’s 1989 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Yoko Ono: Objects, Film, signaled a renewed interest in her art, which continues
to be exhibited extensively across the world.

In 2000 Yes Yoko Ono, a retrospective originating at the Japan Society Gallery
in New York toured to 13 international venues over four years. In 2007, Ono
unveiled the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on Videy, an island off the coast of Reykjavik,
Iceland, giving a permanent home to her and Lennon’s long-standing commitment to
world peace. In 2009 she was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at
the 53rd Venice Biennale, the same year Ono released Between My Head and the
Sky, her first studio album as Plastic Ono Band since 1973. In 2018 came her
13th solo studio album, Warzone.

Ono’s work has continued to be honored with numerous exhibitions in some of the
world’s most prestigious international venues, including The Museum of Modern
Art in New York (2015) and Tate Modern in London (2024), clearly indicating that
Ono’s work as an artist and activist remains singularly relevant and continues
to challenge the boundaries of artist and audience.





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