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Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation. She is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, art brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and…
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culture · Japanese artist and writer (born 1929) · conceptual artist · sculptor · novelist · painter · writer · draftsperson · photographer · installation artist · fashion designer · video artist · also Yayoi Kusama, Kusama Yayoi, Kusama
Born 22 March 1929 · Q231121
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Kusama unveiled a new Infinity Mirror Room titled Infinity Mirrored Room – Beauty Described by a Spherical Heart as part of her solo exhibition Every Day I Pray for Love at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London
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By Asia Society for her actions that strengthened the bounds between Asia and the world
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Kusama is "officially the world's most successful living artist"
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The Yayoi Kusama Museum opened in Tokyo, featuring her works
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A fifty-year retrospective of Kusama's work opened at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC
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A 50-year retrospective of her work opened at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC
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Awarded Order of Culture (2016).
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The website Artsy named Kusama one of its top 10 living artists of the year
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Kusama was ranked the most popular artist of the year after a record-breaking number of visitors flooded her Latin American tour, Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Obsession
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The British indie pop duo The Boy Least Likely To made song tribute to Kusama, writing a song specially about her
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A 120-foot (37 m) reproduction of Kusama's painting Yellow Trees (1994) covered a condominium building under construction in New York's Meatpacking District
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At a SoHo pop-up shop, which was decorated with Kusama's trademark tentacle-like protrusions and polka-dots
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Was commissioned to design the front cover of millions of pocket London Underground maps; the result is entitled Polka Dots Festival in London (2011)
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Kusama created artwork for six limited-edition lipglosses from Lancôme
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Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2010).
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Kusama designed a Town Sneaker styled bus, which she titled Mizutama Ranbu (Wild Polka Dot Dance) and whose route travels through her hometown of Matsumoto
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Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (2009).
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Kusama designed a handbag-shaped cell phone entitled Handbag for Space Travel, My Doggie Ring-Ring, a pink dotted phone in accompanying dog-shaped holder, and a red and white dotted phone inside a mirrored, dotted box du
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The Guideposts were re-installed at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, this time displayed as floating "humps" on a lake
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Awarded Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (2006).
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Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2006).
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Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2003).
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That depicts her life from growing up in Japan, her departure to the United States, and her return to her home country, where she now resides
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Awarded Asahi Prize (2000).
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Realized a mural for the hallway of the Gare do Oriente subway station in Lisbon
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On a pier on Naoshima, Kagawa, becoming iconic as her profile grew in the following decades; it was reinstalled in 2022 after being destroyed by a typhoon a year earlier
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A dazzling mirrored room filled with small pumpkin sculptures in which she resided in color-coordinated magician's attire, Kusama went on to produce a huge, yellow pumpkin sculpture covered with an optical pattern of bla
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Kusama starred in the film Tokyo Decadence, written and directed by Ryū Murakami, and in 1993, she collaborated with British musician Peter Gabriel on an installation in Yokohama
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Kusama published a book of poems and paintings entitled 7
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Found a doctor who was using art therapy to treat mental illness in a hospital setting
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Kusama presided over the happening Homosexual Wedding at the Church of Self-obliteration at 33 Walker Street in New York and performed alongside Fleetwood Mac and Country Joe and the Fish at the Fillmore East in New York
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Kusama and Jud Yalkut's collaborative work Kusama's Self-Obliteration won a prize at the Fourth International Experimental Film Competition in Belgium and the Second Maryland Film Festival and the second prize at the Ann
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Kusama established Kusama Fashion Company Ltd, and began selling avant-garde fashion in the "Kusama Corner" at Bloomingdale's
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Writing: "let's forget ourselves, dearest Richard, and become one with the absolute, all together in the altogether
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Jud Yalkut made a film of Kusama titled Kusama's Self-Obliteration
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Kusama first participated in the Venice Biennale for its 33rd edition
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Kusama created her work Accumulation of Stamps, 63
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Was the only female artist to take part in the widely acclaimed Nul (Zero) international group exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
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Moved her studio into the same building as Donald Judd and sculptor Eva Hesse; Hesse became a close friend
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At the Brata Gallery and then she went on to pioneering body art performances and "happenings"
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Kusama had her first solo exhibition in New York at the Brata Gallery, an artist's co-op
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Where the majority of her well known collections were born: Infinity Networks and sculptures
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And was a part of the New York avant-garde scene throughout the 1960s, especially in the pop-art movement
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Moved to Seattle, where she had an exhibition of paintings at the Zoe Dusanne Gallery
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At age 10, in which the image of a Japanese woman in a kimono, presumed to be the artist's mother, is covered and obliterated by spots
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Born 1929-03-22.
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