A key figure in both the Fluxus and Conceptual Art movements of the 1960’s and 1970's, Yoko Ono continues to work across a broad range of disciplines and media, including music, performance and installation.

During the 1950s and 1960s she lived and worked in New York, Tokyo and London, settling in New York with her husband John Lennon in 1971. Yoko Ono has been credited with being one of the originators of Conceptual Art, with works created in 1960, 1961 and 1962 which are language-based, and use the idea of instructions and participation as well as licence and performance structures. At the time she called these works Insound and Instructure. These ideas were a strong influence in the formation of Fluxus in 1961.

Image Credit:Yoko Ono, My Mummy Was Beautiful, 2004. Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial International 04. Photo Alexandra Wolkowicz