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Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971 examines the beginnings of Ono's career, demonstrating her pioneering role in visual art, performance and music during the 1960s and early 1970s. It begins in New York in December 1960, where Ono initiated a performance series with La Monte Young in her Chambers Street loft. Over the course of the decade, Ono earned international recognition, staging "Cut Piece" in Kyoto and Tokyo in 1964, exhibiting at the Indica Gallery in London in 1966, and launching with John Lennon her global "War Is Over!" campaign in 1969. Ono returned to New York in the early 1970s and organized an unsanctioned "one woman show" at MoMA. Over 40 years after Ono's unofficial MoMA debut, the Museum presents its first exhibition dedicated exclusively to the artist's work.
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Julia Bryan-Wilson is an art historian, critic, and curator. She was born in Amarillo, Texas in 1973 and educated at Swarthmore College (BA, English Literature) and UC Berkeley (PhD, History of Art) . She is the Doris and Clarence Malo Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at UC Berkeley and Adjunct Curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo.
