Exhibition Opening: Yoko Ono: Poetry, Painting, Music, Objects, Events, and Wish Trees

Join us for this opening celebration of Yoko Ono: Poetry, Painting, Music, Objects, Events, and Wish Trees, featuring screenings of Ono’s films Eyeblink, Fly, Cut Piece, and Match Piece.  Robyn Farrell, Assistant Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, will introduce and give context to the films. Following the screening, attendees are invited to view the exhibition and contribute wishes to Ono’s newest installation of Wish Trees.  

Robyn Farrell is Assistant Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she manages the annual one-person focus exhibition series, permanent collection presentations, special exhibitions, and curates the Donna and Howard Stone Gallery for Film, Video, and New Media.

Yoko Ono is widely recognized for her Conceptualist work, groundbreaking films, radical music, as well as her performance art. Ono has exhibited her work throughout the world. Recent and current exhibitions include INVISIBLE PEOPLE in Palermo, Yoko Ono at Leeds, Buddha’s Life, Path to the Present in Amsterdam, Add Color Painting (Refugee Boat) at Mori Art Museum, Yoko Ono: Arising at the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and Archives, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, YOKO ONO: PEACE is POWER at MdbK in Leipzig, YOKO ONO: LIBERTÉ CONQUÉRANTE in Montreal, YOKO ONO: LOOKING FOR … in Cambridge, and DOUBLE FANTASY — John & Yoko in Liverpool, and BELLS FOR PEACE in Manchester.