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Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts.
Yayoi Kusama was born on 22 March 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano. [11] Born into a family of merchants who owned a plant nursery and seed farm, [12] Kusama began drawing pictures of pumpkins in elementary school and created artwork she saw from hallucinations, works of which would later define her career. [9] Her mother was not supportive of her creative endeavors; Kusama would rush to finish her ...
Yayoi Kusama’s art is a testament to her unbridled imagination, and these ten famous works are just the tip of the polka-dotted iceberg. Her creative journey has taken her through various mediums, from painting and sculpture to immersive installations.
In recent years, they’ve become the major draw of Kusama retrospectives, transporting viewers into a kaleidoscopic black hole of shimmering dots, while also providing the perfect backdrop for a selfie sure to inspire lots of likes.
Just a year and a half after her arrival, Kusama had her first U.S. solo show, at New York’s Brata Gallery, where she exhibited white-on-white paintings that seemed to barely even be...
Widely inspirational and innovative artist Yayoi Kusama has a body of work that is exceptionally varied, ranging from graphic prints and paintings to polka-dot pumpkin sculptures, hypnotic collages, large-scale installations and fashion design.
View all 27 artworks. Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929, a remarkable figure of Japanese Feminist Art and Outsider art (Art brut). Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Following Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's latest collaboration with fashion brand Louis Vuitton, we have collected eight projects and collaborations featuring her trademark colourful polka...
An Introduction to Yayoi Kusama. We explore the artist's childhood, activism and unique fashion sense. Explore the Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms exhibition at Tate Modern. Hear from Tate curators Francis Morris and Katy Wan, as they explore the exhibition work-by-work.
Born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Yayoi Kusama grew up as the youngest of four children in a wealthy merchant family. In this black-and-white family photo, taken around the year 1943, she is the second figure from the right. From a very young age, Kusama showed a talent for painting, yet her family was far from supportive.