Born in 1933 in Tokyo. She lives in New York.

Yoko Ono achieved global renown in the 1960s as an artist with ties to the Fluxus movement. Creating experimental videos and composing music, she also became a pioneer of conceptual and feminist art. In her famous performance "Cut Piece" (1964), on show at the exhibition, she adopted a motionless pose while audience members cut off parts of her dress with scissors, until she was almost naked. In 2003 Ono repeated the performance at the Ranelagh theater in Paris, and dedicated it to the struggle for peace in the post-9/11 world. "Cough Piece" (1961), also at the exhibition, is a sound composition that consists of recordings of coughing and holds true to the spirit of Fluxus.