Avant-garde artist and novelist. Born in 1929 in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture. From a young age, Yayoi Kusama experienced visual and auditory hallucinations, and began creating net and polka-dot pattern pictures. In 1957, she went to the United States and began making net paintings and soft sculptures, as well as organizing happenings and developing installations that made use of mirrors and lights, establishing herself as an avant-garde artist. Overcoming various obsessions, she discovered an artistic philosophy of self-obliteration via the obsessive repetition and multiplication of single motifs. She continues to actively devote herself to creating artworks, including her largest painting series My Eternal Soul from 2009-2021, amounting to over 800 works in 12 years, as well as a new painting series starting in 2021 titled EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE. She received Japan’s Order of Culture in 2016. Recently, Kusama has held large-scale retrospective exhibitions at various museums throughout the world, including Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and M+.
With All My Love for the Tulips, I Pray Forever, 2013
Gallery Collection
Ay Tjoe Christine, Chen Wei, Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Yayoi Kusama, Dennis Oppenheim, Wang Yahui, Saskia Olde Wolbers20 Jan - 18 Mar 2018ShanghaiOta Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present Gallery Collection, a group exhibition featuring eight artists from across the globe: China, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, The Netherlands and U.S.A. These artists...Read moreYayoi Kusama: Colour Song
Yayoi Kusama8 Jun - 15 Jul 2017SingaporeOta Fine Arts Singapore is delighted to present 'Yayoi Kusama: Colour Song', a solo exhibition featuring 7 recent paintings from the artist's most significant series of work, 'Infinity Nets'. As...Read moreBoundless
Rina Banerjee, Yayoi Kusama, Yeesookyung4 Mar - 8 Apr 2017SingaporeOta Fine Arts Singapore is delighted to present 'Boundless', a group exhibition by 3 influential female artists from Asia: Rina Banerjee (India / USA), Yayoi Kusama (Japan) and Yeesookyung (Korea)....Read moreImagined Peripheries
Masanori Handa, Yayoi Kusama, Firoz Mahmud, Nobuaki Takekawa, Yeesookyung23 Nov - 24 Dec 2016SingaporeOta Fine Arts Singapore is delighted to present 'Imagined Peripheries', a group exhibition by 5 artists from East Asia: Masanori Handa (Japan), Yayoi Kusama (Japan), Firoz Mahmud (Bangladesh), Nobuaki Takekawa...Read more
Yayoi Kusama
"Sense of Wonder: Art Through the Senses", Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka 27 Jun 2023Yayoi Kusama will participate in the group exhibition, 'Sense of Wonder: Art Through the Senses' at Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka from 18th April...Read moreART SG
Booth BD01 10 Jan 2023Ota Fine Arts will participate in 'ART SG', from 11th to 15th January 2023. Ota Fine Arts is located at Booth BD01 , presenting artworks...Read moreYayoi Kusama
"Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now", M+, Hong Kong 17 Nov 2022Yayoi Kusama will hold a solo show 'Yayoi Kusama:1945 to Now' at M+ in Hong Kong from 12th November 2022 to 14th May 2023. Title...Read moreYayoi Kusama
"The Timeless Imagination of Yves Klein: Uncertainty and the Immateriality" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture 8 Oct 2022Yayoi Kusama participates in a group exhibition, ' The Timeless Imagination of Yves Klein: Uncertainty and the Immateriality' at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,...Read more
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