Yayoi Kusama

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Yayoi Kusama is a pioneering Japanese contemporary artist renowned for her immersive installations, polka-dot motifs, and exploration of infinity, repetition, and psychological themes.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf contemporary artist
human
installation artist
painter
performance artist
sculptor
awardReceived Asahi Prize NERFINISHED
Order of Culture of Japan NERFINISHED
Praemium Imperiale NERFINISHED
birthDate 1929-03-22
birthPlace Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan NERFINISHED
collaboratedWith Louis Vuitton NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Japan
field installation art
painting
performance art
sculpture
visual arts
gender female
genre conceptual art
environmental art
installation art
hasExhibitedAt Centre Pompidou, Paris NERFINISHED
Guggenheim Museum, New York NERFINISHED
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo NERFINISHED
Museum of Modern Art, New York NERFINISHED
Tate Modern, London NERFINISHED
Whitney Museum of American Art NERFINISHED
hasMentalHealthCondition hallucinations
obsessive-compulsive disorder
hasWebsite https://yayoi-kusama.jp
influenced contemporary installation art
feminist art practices
pop art
influencedBy abstract expressionism
minimalism
surrealism
knownFor self-admitted voluntary residence in a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo
language Japanese
livedIn New York City NERFINISHED
movement avant-garde
contemporary art
feminist art
minimalism
pop art
name Yayoi Kusama NERFINISHED
nationality Japanese
nativeName 草間彌生 NERFINISHED
notableFor exploration of psychological themes
immersive installations
infinity rooms
polka-dot motifs
use of repetition
notableWork Dots Obsession series NERFINISHED
Infinity Mirror Rooms NERFINISHED
My Eternal Soul series NERFINISHED
Narcissus Garden NERFINISHED
Pumpkin sculptures
periodActive 1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
representedBy David Zwirner Gallery NERFINISHED
Victoria Miro Gallery NERFINISHED
residence Tokyo, Japan NERFINISHED
signatureMotif mirrors
nets
polka dots
pumpkins
theme cosmos
hallucinations
infinity
obsession
polka dots
psychological trauma
pumpkins
repetition
self-obliteration

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Phillips Collection hasWorkBy Yayoi Kusama
subject surface form: "The Broad"
David Zwirner Gallery represents Yayoi Kusama

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