2005 · Premio
Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award
2006
The Turin Winter Olympics opening ceremony
Ono performs at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, dressed in white, like many other performers, to symbolise the snow of winter. She reads a free-verse poem calling for world peace as an introduction to Peter Gabriel’s performance of “Imagine”.
May – June 2007
“Odyssey of a Cockroach” at the Moscow Biennale
Yoko Ono’s exhibition “Odyssey of a Cockroach” takes place in the TsUM department store as part of the 2nd Moscow Biennale; her book of the same name was published in 2005.
2007
A visit to Bernovo
Ono visits Bernovo, the birthplace of Anna Bubnova-Ono, the violinist wife of her uncle Shunichi Ono, and of her sister, the avant-garde artist Varvara Bubnova, who returned to the USSR after their husbands died in Japan.
9 October 2007
The Imagine Peace Tower is lit in Iceland
On Viðey Island the Imagine Peace Tower, dedicated to peace and to Lennon, is turned on with Ono, Sean, Ringo Starr and Olivia Harrison in attendance. Each year between October 9 and December 8 it projects a vertical beam of light into the sky.
2008
“Sky Ladders” at the Liverpool Biennial
Ono returns to Liverpool for the 2008 Liverpool Biennial, where she unveils “Sky Ladders” in the ruins of the Church of St Luke, largely destroyed in the Second World War and now a roofless memorial to those killed in the Liverpool Blitz.