Wish Tree
Yoko Ono
February 14, 2025 - February 17, 2025
Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Yoko Ono is a groundbreaking and influential artist and activist, with a multidisciplinary career spanning conceptual art, film, and performance. A trailblazer of early conceptual and participatory work, a celebrated musician, and a formidable campaigner for world peace, her practice centers on ideas over objects, often expressed in poetic, humorous, profound, and radical ways.
Her powerful, participatory practice is realized at the Armory with the largest installation of her ongoing work Wish Tree in North America to date. Within the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, a grove of 92 trees will be installed in honor of the influential artist’s 92nd birthday. Visitors are invited to contribute by tying personal wishes to the trees, creating a large scale, yet intimate activation of her social practice work.
The installation also intersects with our Making Space series of public programs with a two-day symposium of conversations, panels, and activations that trace Ono’s radical approach to art, language, and participation while amplifying her legacy of peace activism, female empowerment, and challenging the boundaries of artist and audience.
Installation Dates & Hours
February 14–17, 2025
Friday: 2:00pm–10:00pm
Saturday–Monday: 12:00pm–8:00pm
"To say that Yoko Ono has the audience in mind, at all times, is the merest understatement. It would be hard to think of an artist more bent on universal public address. … Ono is still living and working in a state of hope, still asking us to give peace a chance"
The Guardian (UK)
"An experimental, enduring and visionary artist in her own right. Her influence has been far-reaching … a distinctive voice in among a lot of noise."
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Making Space at the Armory
A Dream You Dream Together
This convening assembles a host of scholars, artists, writers, and activists for a series of panels and performances that explore and highlight Yoko Ono’s message and highlight her influence and impact on the art world and the world at-large.
Making Space at the Armory
Yoko Ono Tribute Concerts
In concurrence with Yoko Ono's Wish Tree and A Dream You Dream Together – A Symposium Celebrating Yoko Ono, Making Space at the Armory presents two intimate tribute concerts in one of the Armory historic period rooms inspired by Ono’s works and legacy.
Support
Making Space at the Armory is made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF).
Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne Adams.
