MCA Chicago hosts Yoko Ono’s only U.S. retrospective

Yoko Ono’s upcoming retrospective Music of the Mind  will appear at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago from October 18, 2025, to February 22, 2026, and Chicago is the exhibition’s only U.S. venue.

The show gathers over 200 works across media, films, scores, installations, photographs, archives, and includes interactive, instruction‑based pieces that invite visitor participation. It draws from Ono’s work in the mid‑1950s and is presented in close collaboration with her studio.

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In Chicago, audiences can expect engagement with key works such as Cut Piece, Film No. 4 (Bottoms), Wish Tree, My Mommy Is Beautiful, and public activations across the city. The exhibit originally premiered at London’s Tate Modern, where it drew significant attention, before traveling to Chicago.

Music of the Mind offers a rare chance for American audiences to experience Ono’s radical vision and to reconsider how art, participation and activism intersect. (For more info, click here)

Sources:

https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/01/mca-chicago-yoko-ono-exhibition-2025

https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/articles/mca-chicago-will-be-exclusive-us-venue-for-yoko-ono-music-of-the-mind

https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/yoko-ono-music-of-the-mind

https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/652830/yoko-onomusic-of-the-mind

https://www.ocula.com/institutions/museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago/exhibitions/yoko-ono-music-of-the-mind/