is an American-Japanese multimedia artist, musician, and peace activist. She is best known for her involvement in the Fluxus art movement and, in the culture at large, for her marriage to the Beatles frontmanwere both highly influential to Ono’s Neo-Dada artwork, which often achieves a unique combination of humor and poignancy.
Her seminal performance,, took this idea even further, putting herself at the mercy of an audience that cut her clothes off, piece by piece. Born on February 18, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan, Ono was profoundly marked by her experience of living through WWII and moving to New York as a young woman.