Kusama Yayoi Love Forever
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Art
Ceramic
2010s Pop Art Mixed Media
Ceramic, Porcelain, Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Art
Porcelain
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Art
Ceramic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Art
Ceramic
1990s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Art
Porcelain
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Ceramic
1990s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Bronze
1990s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Bronze
2010s Pop Art More Art
Ceramic, Porcelain, Mixed Media, Screen
2010s Pop Art Mixed Media
Wood, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Screen
2010s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Offset
2010s Pop Art Mixed Media
Leather, Polyester, Mixed Media
People Also Browsed
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Ceramic, Majolica
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Bottles
Glass
1960s Pop Art Sculptures
Nylon
2010s More Art
Fabric
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Offset
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Stools
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1960s Persian Persian Rugs
Wool
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Resin
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Sofas
Fabric, Foam
2010s Italian Dinner Plates
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Chairs
Plastic
2010s Pop Art Still-life Sculptures
Resin
2010s Canadian Post-Modern Chairs
Rattan, Maple
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
2010s Pop Art More Art
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Recent Sales
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Metal
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Resin
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Resin
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Resin
1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Offset
1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Lithograph, Offset
Early 2000s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Screen, Pencil
1960s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Offset
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Wood, Screen
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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.
Even if you don’t know her name, you’ve likely experienced Kusama’s art — or have seen it on Instagram. Her soft sculptures and dazzling “Infinity Mirrors” are the stuff of selfie-takers’ dreams, but Kusama’s impressive decades-long career certainly holds far more cachet than it does fodder for today’s aspiring social-media influencers.
Born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929, Kusama has worked with her signature polka dots since the age of 10, when she began to experience vivid hallucinations and claimed that patterns and dots were moving around her, swallowing up everything in view. She started to incorporate them into her paintings as a child. Kusama saw circular forms and nets on every surface and became especially fascinated with the pebbles that lined the bottom of the creek near her childhood home. Her family was sternly opposed to her art and her mother physically abused Kusama and discouraged her at a very early age. She has suffered psychological turmoil her whole life and is vocal about her mental illness. Today, Kusama is a voluntary resident at a psychiatric facility in Tokyo, and she calls her work “art medicine.”
At the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts, Kusama trained in Nihonga, a traditional style of Japanese painting that originated during the Meiji period. On advice she solicited from painter Georgia O'Keeffe, a pioneer of modernism in America whom she greatly admired, she subsequently moved to New York City in 1958. There, Kusama flourished, creating prescient sculptures and large-scale monochrome paintings that bridged current styles with minimalism, which hadn’t yet achieved any kind of prominence as an art movement. She pushed boundaries with her “Accumulations” series, which saw her transforming found furniture pieces into sexualized objects, as well as with an avant-garde staging of theatrical orgies on the street — both stemming from her anxieties about sex as well as an endeavor to make a feminist statement about patriarchal authority and sexism.
Kusama was captivated by Surrealists as well as the Abstract Expressionists and greatly influenced the Pop artists who followed, befriending such icons as Donald Judd — who called her work “the best paintings being done” — and Andy Warhol, with whom she exhibited and later accused of stealing her ideas. Kusama moved with ease through artistic circles and made a point to draw attention to her “otherness” as a Japanese woman by wearing kimonos to her openings.
In 2021, Kusama brought her floral and vegetal sculptures to the New York Botanical Garden and her works can be found in the collections of many of the world’s top museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. She famously collaborated with Louis Vuitton in 2012, and she created a 34-foot-tall balloon for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan in 2019, becoming the first female artist to design a work for the event. In addition to her visual artwork, Kusama is a writer, publishing poetry, novels and an autobiography.
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