Yoko Ono Total Net Worth: How Much Is She Earning?

Yoko Ono Lennon, also known as just Yoko Ono, is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, composer, director, producer, actor, and peace activist.

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Personal Details

Stage Name: Yoko Ono
Full Name: Yoko Ono Lennon
Gender: Female
Birthday: February 18, 1933
Place of Origin: Tokyo, Empire of Japan
Age: 87
Height: 5 ft 1 in.
Nationality: Japanese
Sexual Orientation: Straight Male
Status: Single, widow
Spouse: John Lennon m.1969; died 1980
Profession: Artist, singer, composer, director, producer, author, actor, and peace activist.
Total Net Worth: $700 million

Personal Life

Yoko Ono was born in Tokyo, Japan on February 18, 1933 to parents Isoko Ono and Eisuke Ono. Yoko’s family came from the wealthy Yasuda Clan which is known as the Financial clan because of success in banking. On her father’s side, is a long line of samurai warrior scholars.

When Yoko Ono was just two years old, her family followed their father in San Francisco. The year after Yoko was born, her younger brother was born and in 1937, their family moved back to Japan. Being back in Japan, her parents enrolled Yoko in an elite school Gakushuin. When Yoko was four years old, her family also enrolled her in piano lessons.

In 1940, Yoko’s family moved to New York. In 1941, her father was assigned to Hanoi, Vietnam. Yoko’s family moved back to Japan. She then went to an exclusive primary school, Keimei Gakuen.

Throughout world war II and the massive bombing on March 9, 1945 the family stayed in Japan. The family struggled because food was scarce at that time. They had to pull their things in a wheelbarrow and they were forced to beg for food.

Then, in April 1946, Yoko Ono enrolled in Gakuishuin when the school reopened. The school was not damaged during the war. Yoko was classmates with the future emperor of Japan, Prince Akihito.

When Yoko graduated, she went on to study Philosophy for two semesters only at Gakuishuin University. Her family eventually returned to New York to start a new life and settled in an affluent town Scarsdale, New York. Yoko Ono continued her studies at Sarah Lawrence College and pursued her passion for art.

Yoko Ono was married thrice.. First in 1995, with Toshi Ichiyanagi who is a Japanese composer. They divorced in 1962. Second marriage was with Anthony Cox who is an american jazz musician, to whom she had a daughter named Kyoko Chan Cox.

They divorced on February 2, 1969. Third marriage was with John Lennon later in 1969. The couple had a son named Sean Taro Ono Lennon. John Lennon later on was murdered in 1980.

Career

During college, Yoko Ono began her passion for arts. She met artists, poets, and people who are interesting to her. Soon, she started to experiment with her own art.

In 1961, Yoko Ono had her first solo exhibition at AG Gallery in New York. George Maciunas was the one who helped her first exhibition.

In 1964, She performed her first seminal work called Cut Piece at the Yamaichi Concert Hall in Kyoto. Yoko Ono was one of the pioneers of conceptual and performance art. Cut Piece consisted of Ono who is dressed in her best suit where she is kneeling on stage and in front of her is a pair of scissors.

Audiences were instructed to join her and cut pieces off of her clothing. The piece was reprised several times. Yoko Ono released another seminal work of conceptual art, a book entitled “Grapefruit” which was published in 1964. Grapefruit is a set of instructions for the work of art to be completed either in the literal sense or just in the imagination of the participant. In July 2013, Yoko Ono released the sequel of Grapefruit which is another set of instructions.

Yoko is also a filmmaker. She has 16 experimental films in the years 1964 to 1972. Her renown film was a Fluxus Film in 1966 entitled No. 4 or Bottoms.

She had an art exhibit in London in the year 1966 where she met her late husband, John Lennon. Yoko Ono and John Lennon collaborated in several music and art projects. The couple has released their first album together entitled “Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins and an experimental piece”.

Yoko Ono did a participatory art project called Wish Tree. A tree is installed in the installation site and there are instructions where you write down your wish on a piece of paper and tie it around the branch of the Wish Tree.

Yoko Ono has numerous notable artworks such as Arising in 2015 which she created in Venice. Arising is a feminist artwork. Another one is Skylanding in 2016 which is her first permanent art installed in the United States at Jackson Park, Chicago. And, Refugee Boat in 2019. Refugee Boat is another participatory artwork of Yoko Ono which is composed of a white room and a white boat covered with messages from the audience.

In her music career, Yoko Ono has albums with her husband John Lennon and she also has solo albums as well. She had several popular albums such as “Rising”, “Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band”, “Wedding Album”, “Double Fantasy”, and “Live Peace in Toronto 1969”.

In 1994, Yoko Ono debuted her musical entitled “New York Rock” off-broadway.

In 1997, her solo album was reissued on CD by Rykodisc Records.

In the 2000s, Yoko Ono has returned to music and recording several albums such as “Walking on Thin Ice (remixes), “Blueprint for a Sunrise”, “Between My Head and the Sky”, “Yes, I’m a Witch”, and Yokokimthurston.