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 has held exhibitions at various museums throughout the world, and in recent years her large-scale retrospective exhibitions at the Tate Modern and Pompidou Centre have elicited considerable responses. She recorded more than 2 million visitors to her tours in Latin America and Asia, which led to her being named the ‘world’s most popular artist in 2014’ by the Art Newspaper. In 2016, she received Japan’s Order of Culture. In 2017, a North American tour of her works started from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. In 2021, solo exhibition KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature is held at the New York Botanical Garden. Retrospective exhibition Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective opens at the Gropius Bau, Berlin.
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Yayoi Kusama | Monochrome
25 Jun - 30 Jul 2016 TokyoYayoi Kusama is the only Japanese who has been featured in the American magazine TIME's 100 Most Influential People in April 2016. She was named 'World's Most Popular Artist' based...Read more -
primal lines
26 Jan - 20 Feb 2016 TokyoOta Fine Arts is pleased to announce 'primal lines', an exhibition of drawings by various artists, including new works and works which will be presented in Japan for the first...Read more -
Gallery Collection
8 Dec 2015 - 16 Jan 2016 TokyoYayoi Kusama Yuken Teruya Takao Minami Akira the Hustler Jay Flores Ticar Rina Banerjee Zhang EnliRead more -
Yayoi Kusama: Prints Part 2
Yayoi Kusama 28 Feb - 28 Mar 2015 TokyoWe are delighted to announce the second part of the exhibition 'Yayoi Kusama: Prints'. All the works are different from part one and will be shown to the public for...Read more -
Yayoi Kusama: Prints Part 1
Yayoi Kusama 17 Jan - 21 Feb 2015 TokyoRenown for the use of repeating and accumulating motifs, Yayoi Kusama's artistic practice spans paintings, sculptures and other artistic fields. She also started to pursue print works in 1979, which...Read more -
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama 28 Nov 2014 - 11 Jan 2015 SingaporeOpening reception: Friday, 28 November 2014 19.00 - 21.00 Ota Fine Arts Singapore is delighted to present 'Yayoi Kusama', a solo exhibition featuring nine new, brilliant paintings and a set...Read more -
Gallery Collection
Yee Sookyung, Nobuaki Takekawa, Ay Tjoe Christine, Yayoi Kusama, Zai Kuning 28 Oct - 6 Dec 2014 TokyotestRead more -
Yayoi Kusama: Prints
Yayoi Kusama 25 Oct - 22 Nov 2014 SingaporeOta Fine Arts Singapore is delighted to present 'Yayoi Kusama: Prints', a solo exhibition featuring a vibrant range of limited edition screenprints and etchings produced over the past two decades...Read more -
Vivid Strata: New Representations of Asia II
Yayoi Kusama, Jia Aili, Firoz Mahmud, Qin Qi, Nobuaki Takekawa, Baek Jin Sook and Yeesookyung 22 Aug - 11 Oct 2014 SingaporeOta Fine Arts is delighted to present 'Vivid Strata: New Representations of Asia II', a summer group exhibition featuring a host of artists who are at the forefront of shaping...Read more -
Beyond the Surface
Yayoi Kusama, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Masayasu Mitsuke, Yeesookyung, and Hiraki Sawa 27 Jul - 25 Aug 2013 SingaporeOta Fine Arts is delighted to announce 'Beyond the Surface', a group exhibition featuring works by Yayoi Kusama, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Masayasu Mitsuke, Yeesookyung and Hiraki Sawa. The pieces selected...Read more -
Gallery Collection
Tomoko Kashiki, Yayoi Kusama, Hiraki Sawa, Jessica Diamond, Nobuaki Takekawa, Dale Berning, Masanori Handa 9 Feb - 9 Mar 2013 Tokyo -
YAYOI KUSAMA: New Paintings II
Yayoi Kusama 8 Dec 2012 - 2 Feb 2013 TokyoOta Fine Arts is pleased to announce that 'YAYOI KUSAMA: New Paintings II' will start on 8 December. The tour of Yayoi Kusama's large-scale retrospective, organised by TATE Modern in...Read more -
Yayoi Kusama "LOVE FOREVER"
Yayoi Kusama 2 Nov - 20 Dec 2012 SingaporeFor our second exhibition at Gillman Barracks, Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present Yayoi Kusama's 'Love Forever' series for the first time in Singapore. The artist has worked on...Read more -
YAYOI KUSAMA: New Paintings
Yayoi Kusama 26 Oct - 7 Dec 2012 TokyoOta Fine Arts is pleased to announce the exhibition of YAYOI KUSAMA: New Paintings starting from 26 October, 2012. Starting in 2009, KUSAMA's latest painting series, 'My Eternal Soul' has...Read more -
Yayoi Kusama "METALLIC"
Yayoi Kusama 14 Sep - 28 Oct 2012 SingaporeOta Fine Arts is delighted to announce the inaugural exhibition 'YAYOI KUSAMA: METALLIC' at our new gallery space in Singapore. The gallery will have a grand opening at Gillman Barracks...Read more -
Vertical
Dagvasambuu Uuriintuya, Tomoko Kashiki, Yayoi Kusama, Zang Wang, Nobuaki Takekawa, Takeshi Kobayashi, Kuo I-Chen 21 Mar - 6 Apr 2012 Tokyo -
Melancholia
Albrecht Dürer, Hiraki Sawa, Louis Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, Naoya Inose 25 Oct - 19 Nov 2011 Tokyo -
Portraits in August
Rodel Tapaya, Yayoi Kusama, Heri Dono, Tomoko Kashiki, Rinshiro Fujiki, Manami Koike 2 - 27 Aug 2011 Tokyo -
Yayoi Kusama in \'80s
Yayoi Kusama 16 Jul - 27 Aug 2010 TokyoYayoi Kusama's major solo exhibition is being planned to start from next spring. The exhibition will be toured in Europe and it will feature the side of the artist as...Read more -
Sculptures
Zhan Wang, Yee Sookyung, Rinshiro Fujiki from SHINCHIKA, Yuken Teruya, Akira the Hustler, Yayoi Kusama, Haniwa Human Figure 22 May - 3 Jul 2010 TokyoFrom East to West, China to Iran, this exhibition will follow the cultural belt of Asia. It has selected three-dimensional works with wide-range Asian tones. Born in Qazvin, Iran in...Read more -
Season of Incubation 2
Naoya Inose, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Tomko Kashiki, Nobuaki Takekawa 29 Jan - 6 Mar 2010 Tokyo -
Animal Garden
Hiraki Sawa, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Nobuaki Takekawa, Yayoi Kusama, Tiger Tateishi, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Nagasawa Rosetsu, Maruyama oukyo 14 Oct - 15 Nov 2008 TokyoHistorically, domestic animals and pets, even wild animals were part of our daily lives. Sometimes as beings to be feared of, and other times as a symbol of power, or...Read more -
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama 18 Jul - 22 Aug 2008 TokyoIt is delightful to be able to show 'Love Forever' series for the first time in Japan. The artist had started this series since 2004 and completed fifty pieces in...Read more -
Gallery Collection - Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama 7 Jul - 4 Aug 2007 Tokyo -
Gallery Collection - Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama 28 Nov - 22 Dec 2006 Tokyo -
New Acquisition
Masayasu Mitsuke, Nobuaki Takekawa, Hiraki Sawa, Yuken Teruya, Yayoi Kusama, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Tigar Tateishi, Michiro Tokushige, Yuichi Higashionna, I-Chen Kuo 11 Jul - 26 Aug 2006 Tokyo -
Gallery Collection
Mio Shirai, Tomomi Maekawa, Yayoi Kusama, Akira the Hustler, BuBu de la Madeleine, Yuken Teruya 6 Dec 2005 - 27 Jan 2006 Tokyo -
Gallery Collection-Yayoi Kusama Monochrome Malerei
Yayoi Kusama 13 Jul - 31 Aug 2005 Tokyo -
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama 13 Nov - 17 Dec 2004 Tokyo -
Maestros in early period
Yayoi Kusama, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yasumasa Morimura, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Nobuyoshi Araki 15 Jul - 14 Aug 2004 Tokyo -
COUPLE
Nobuaki Takekawa, BuBu and Yoshiko Shimada, Akira the Hustler, Yayoi Kusama, Dennis Oppenheim, GI JOE 22 Jun - 10 Jul 2004 Tokyo -
Gallery Collection B
Yayoi Kusama, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hiraki Sawa, Tomomi Maekawa 6 Apr - 1 May 2004 Tokyo -
Gallery Artists
BuBu de la Madeleine, Akira the Hustler, Yayoi Kusama, Tsuyoshi Ozawa 6 - 28 Jun 2003 Tokyo -
Yayoi Kusama
28 Jun - 27 Jul 2002 Tokyo -
Gallery Collection
Yasumasa Morimura, Atelier Van Lishout, Tomomi Maekawa, Tamu Ochiai, Alighiero Boetti, Yayoi Kusama, Dennis Oppenheim, Koji Sekimoto, Jessica Diamond, Bruce Nauman, Nobuaki Takekawa, BuBu de la Madeleine 19 Mar - 27 Apr 2002 Tokyo -
Yayoi Kusama
6 Jul - 4 Aug 2001 TokyotestRead more -
Yayoi Kusama
14 Jun - 15 Jul 2000 Tokyo -
Work on Paper
Atelier Van Lishout, PH STUDIO, Yukinori Yanagi, Kazumi Nakamura, Joseph Grigely etc 23 May - 10 Jun 2000 Tokyo -
Yayoi Kusama "Where am I ?"
Yayoi Kusama 1 Jun - 3 Jul 1999 Tokyo -
Gallery Collection - Listening Kaoru Abe
Tomio Miki, Jiro Takamatsu, Yayoi Kusama, On Kawara avec Kaoru Abe 2 - 27 Feb 1999 Tokyo -
Video Work
Yayoi Kusama, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, BuBu+Shimada 16 Sep - 3 Oct 1998 Tokyo -
Yayoi Kusama
26 Jun - 1 Aug 1998 Tokyo -
Yayoi Kusama "Kusama\'s Kusama"
Yayoi Kusama 8 Jul - 7 Aug 1997 Tokyo -
Portrait
Yayoi Kusama, Yoshiko Shimada, Tadao Kimura, Paul Delvaux, Takashi Murakami, Isamu Noguchi, Dennis Oppenheim, Yasumasa Morimura, Tomio Miki, Kazuo Katase, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Noritoshi Hirakawa 7 - 22 Nov 1996 Tokyo -
Yayoi Kusama: 10 Paintings from 60\'s to the Present
Yayoi Kusama 23 May - 15 Jun 1996 Tokyo -
Print
Yayoi Kusama, Yoshiko Shimada, Shinro Otake, Mtsuo Kanou, Reiko Ikemura, Sigmar Polke, Imi Knoebel, Francesco Clemente, Joseph Beuys 21 Nov - 20 Dec 1995 Tokyo -
Photograph
Yayoi Kusama, Christian Boltanski, Tomio Miki, Yasumasa Morimura, Hotarou Koyama, Kazuo Katase, Barbara Ess, Tatsumi Orimoto 5 - 30 Sep 1995 Tokyo -
Yayoi Kusama "I who Committed Suicide"
Yayoi Kusama 1 Jul - 5 Aug 1995 Tokyo -
Gallery Collection
Christian Boltanski, Sol LeWitt, Yayoi Kusama, Kazuo Katase 17 May - 24 Jun 1995 Tokyo
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Yayoi Kusama "VEUVE CLICQUOT LA GRANDE DAME 2012 × YAYOI KUSAMA"
4 Sep 2020Yayoi Kusama designed a special gift box and 100 editions of small sculpture My Heart That Blooms in the Darkness of Night for 'Veuve Clicquot...Read more -
Yayoi Kusama "THE VISION OF FANTASY THAT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN IS THIS SPLENDOR" YAYOI KUSAMA MUSEUM, Tokyo
20 Jul 2020Yayoi Kusama is holding a solo show 'THE VISION OF FANTASY THAT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN IS THIS SPLENDOR' at Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo from...Read more -
"Taipei Connections" 30 April - 5 May, 2020
29 Apr 2020Ota Fine Arts will participate in 'Taipei Connections', a new digital platform launched by Taipei Dangdai in collaboration with Ocula. The first edition will feature...Read more -
A Message From Yayoi Kusama To The Whole World
15 Apr 2020Today, with the world facing COVID-19, I feel the necessity to address it with this message. A MESSAGE FROM YAYOI KUSAMA TO THE WHOLE WORLD...Read more