September 5, 2026
Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE opens at MoMAYoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE opened at the Museum of Modern Art on September 3 and is scheduled to remain on view through spring 2027. Presented on Floor 1, the installation brings one of the artist’s most persistent public messages into the museum’s everyday circulation.
Ono has treated language as both an artistic material and an invitation to participate. Short instructions and declarative phrases in her work ask viewers to complete an image mentally, reconsider an ordinary action, or imagine a social condition that does not yet exist. In this context, “Imagine Peace” functions less as a slogan to be passively observed than as a prompt addressed to every visitor.
MoMA places the installation within a history that reaches back to the 1969 WAR IS OVER! campaign created by Ono and John Lennon in response to the Vietnam War. Ono subsequently carried messages about peace across billboards, advertisements, postcards, clothing, and digital platforms, deliberately moving art beyond the conventional gallery object.
The museum also connects the project to its earlier collaborations with Ono, including the 2019 commission PEACE is POWER. A related work, THINK PEACE, ACT PEACE, SPREAD PEACE, IMAGINE PEACE, is due to appear at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 6 in fall 2026.
The MoMA installation is organized by Alison Burstein with Lydia Mullin and Elizabeth Wickham. Current visiting information is available from the museum’s official exhibition page. | 
