Art installation series by Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono'sWish Trees for London at the "Yoko Ono To The Light" exhibition at theSerpentine Gallery , London, June 2012 Wish Tree art installation series by Japanese artistYoko Ono , started in 1996,[ 1] New York City ,St. Louis , Detroit,Wish Tree for Washington, DC San Francisco ,Pasadena , andPalo Alto, California ,Tokyo ,Venice ,Paris ,Dublin ,London ,Exeter, England ,Finland andBuenos Aires ,Argentina ,Calgary .
Her 1996Wish Piece had the following instructions:
Make a wish. Write it down on a piece of paper. Fold it and tie it around a branch of a Wish Tree. Ask your friends to do the same. Keep wishing. Until the branches are covered with wishes.[ 2]
Installations have involved from one to 21 trees, and varieties includelemon trees,eucalyptus , andcrepe myrtles . To honor wish writers' privacy, Ono claims she does not read the wishes, and collects them all to be buried at the base of theImagine Peace Tower on Viðey Island in Kollafjörður Bay inIceland .[ 1]
The series developed after an installation of one tree in Finland grew into a mini-forest, and Ono felt a continuing social need. She has also said:
As a child in Japan, I used to go to a temple and write out a wish on a piece of thin paper and tie it around the branch of a tree. Trees in temple courtyards were always filled with people's wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar.[ 1]
In fall 2010, Ono performedVoice Piece for Soprano, near theMoMA rendition of the piece as part of the museum's collections show.[ 3] Pharrell Williams wrote on one in New York in 2013.[ 4]
Year City or country Institution or group, if known Title, if known Tree type, if known Other Before 1996 Finland [ 1] 1996 Alicante ,Valencia, Spain [ 5] pomegranate [ 6] [incomplete short citation 2002 San Francisco [ 7] SFMoMA Exeter, England [ 8] 2003 Venice, Italy Peggy Guggenheim Collection Wish Tree Venice 2003. To Peggy with Love x Yoko olive tree [ 9] Permanent installation 2007 Washington, DC Hirshhorn Museum gardensWish Tree for Washington, DC dogwood [ 10] São Paulo ,[ 8] Brazil Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo Yoko Ono - Uma Retrospectiva[ 11] ficus benjamina 10/11/2007 to 03/02/2008 2008 Pasadena, California One Colorado shopping center Wish Tree for Pasadena 21crepe myrtle trees Permanently installed atArlington Garden , Pasadena 2009 Palo Alto, California Stanford University campustwo lemon trees[ 12] Tokyo [ 8] 2010 New York City [ 4] MoMA Oberlin, Ohio [ 8] Oberlin College 2012 New York City Occupy Wall Street (Zuccotti Park )Wish Tree for Zuccotti Park Project altered to distribution of 10,000 postcards after fall 2011 police raid of park[ 13] Dublin Wish Tree for Ireland [ 14] London Serpentine Galleries Wish Tree for London 2012-13 Brooklyn, New York [ 15] Brooklyn Museum 2013 St. Louis [ 16] Saint Louis Art Museum Sydney, Australia Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney Wish Tree for Sydney [ 17] sixeucalyptus [ 18] 2014 Orlando [ 19] Tampa, Florida [ 20] Hard Rock Cafe locations2016 Manhattan Beach, California Manhattan Beach Art Center Wish Tree for Manhattan Beach unknown Temporary installation Buenos Aires ,Argentina MALBA Part of Yoko Onoretrospective 2018 New York City Performa 17unknown Temporarily installed at festival headquarters[ 21] 2019 Bad Homburg vor der Höhe Blickachsen Wish Trees for Bad Homburg [ 22] apple tree [ 22] 2019 France Château la Coste Wish Trees 8 olive trees Permanent installation 2022 Liverpool Yoko Ono Lennon Centre Wish Trees olive [ 23] Temporary installation[ 24] 2024 London Tate Modern Wish Trees for London [ 25] olive [ 23] Temporary installation 2024 New York Park Avenue Armory Wish Tree [ 26] Temporary installation 2024 Berlin Martin Gropius Bau &Neue National Gallery Wish Tree for Berlin olive Temporary Installation
|2024||Germany |Museum unter Tage/ Situation Kunst/ Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum |Wish Tree [ 27]
^a b c d "Yoko Ono's Wish Trees" . Imagine Peace Tower website.^ Munroe, Alexandra; Ono, Yoko; Hendricks, Jon; Altshuler, Bruce; Ross, David A.; Wenner, Jann S.; Concannon, Kevin C.; Tomii, Reiko; Sayle, Murray; Gomez, Edward M. (October 2000).Yes Yoko Ono ISBN 0-81094-587-8 ^ "Multimedia: Voice Piece for Soprano & Wish Tree. At MoMA. Summer 2010 by yoko ono" . moma.org. RetrievedNov 20, 2014 .^a b "Pharrell Williams Wrote a Pretty Cool Wish on Yoko Ono's Wish Tree" . N.Y. Observer. June 6, 2013.^ "Imagine....Yoko Ono in Pasadena,Folio " (PDF) . Pasadena Arts Council. July 2008. p. 1.[dead link ^ Munroe et al. 2000 , p. 266.^ "yes Yoko Ono First American Retrospective of Pioneering Artist on View at SFMoMA in Only West Coast Presentation (press release)" . sfmoma.org. Jan 22, 2002. Archived fromthe original on September 19, 2015. RetrievedNovember 19, 2014 .^a b c d Gurney, Sari."Exhibitions by Yoko Ono" . Archived from the original on May 12, 2016. RetrievedNov 20, 2014 . ^ "Yoko Ono" . Peggy Guggenheim Collection. RetrievedNov 20, 2014 .^ "Yoko Ono, Imagine Peace. Street Scenes: Projects for DC. Inauguration 2009" (PDF) . streetscenesdc.com. Jan 13, 2009.^ https://acervo.mac.usp.br/acervo/index.php/Detail/objects/22750 ^ Haven, Cynthia (December 19, 2008)."Yoko Ono to speak at Stanford, Stanford Report" . Stanford University. ^ Levin, Sam (Jan 14, 2012)."Yoko Ono (Not Present) Promotes Peace at Zuccotti; Occupiers Proceed to 'Drop Dead' . Village Voice. Archived fromthe original on January 16, 2012. ^ "Yoko Ono receives a lifetime achievement award in Dublin | Irish Entertainment in Ireland and Around the World" . IrishCentral. June 28, 2012. RetrievedNovember 19, 2014 .^ "Exhibitions: Wish Tree" . Brooklyn Museum. RetrievedNov 20, 2014 .^ "Yoko Ono's Wish Tree at Saint Louis Art Museum" . Blouin Art Info. August 19, 2013. Archived fromthe original on November 10, 2013. RetrievedNovember 19, 2014 .^ "Museum of Contemporary Art Photo: Wish Tree – Yoko Ono" . TripAdvisorUK. 2000. RetrievedNov 20, 2014 .^ "News: MCA Insight: War Is OVer! (if you want it): Yoko Ono" . Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. RetrievedNov 20, 2014 .^ "News: Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos Takes Part in 7th Annual Imagine There's No Hunger Campaign Invites Guests and Fans to Take Park in Wish Tree" . Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos. Nov 10, 2014.^ "Seminole Hard Rock Hotels & Casino Tampa to Participate in Seventh Annual Imagine There's No Hunger Campaign" . Tampa Bay Newswire. Nov 13, 2014. Archived fromthe original on November 29, 2014. RetrievedNovember 19, 2014 .^ "Performa 17" . February 2018.^a b "Wish Trees for Bad Homburg" (in English and German). Blickachsen 12.^a b "A Tate Modern Retrospective Is Reclaiming Yoko Ono" .Observer . 2024-03-26. Retrieved2024-10-23 .^ Haygarth, Dan (2022-03-25)."Sean Ono Lennon in Liverpool to open new Yoko Ono centre" .Liverpool Echo . Retrieved2025-05-09 . ^ Tate."Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" .Tate . Retrieved2024-10-23 . ^ "Wish Tree : Program & Events" . Retrieved2024-10-23 .^ "Wish Tree : Program & Events" (in German). Retrieved2025-07-17 .
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