Yayoi Kusama Painting
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Wood, Lithograph, Offset
1960s Pop Art Sculptures
Wood, Lithograph, Offset
1960s Pop Art Sculptures
Wood, Lithograph, Offset
1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
1960s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Nylon, Screen
1970s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel, Ink, Felt Pen, Paper
2010s Abstract Figurative Sculptures
Resin
2010s Abstract Figurative Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Sculptures
Wood, Lithograph, Offset
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Resin, Lacquer, Paint
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Resin, Lacquer, Paint
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Resin, Lacquer, Paint
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Resin, Lacquer, Paint
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Resin
2010s Contemporary More Art
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
2010s Pop Art Still-life Sculptures
Resin
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Resin
2010s Pop Art More Art
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
2010s Pop Art More Art
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
2010s Pop Art More Art
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
1990s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Bronze
2010s Conceptual More Art
Wood, Maple, Screen
2010s Conceptual More Art
Wood, Maple
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Ceramic
1990s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Bronze
1990s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Nylon
1960s Pop Art Sculptures
Nylon
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Fabric, Screen
1960s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Nylon, Screen
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Sculptures
Nylon
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Resin
1960s Pop Art Sculptures
Nylon
2010s Pop Art Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1970s Animal Paintings
Enamel
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Sculptures
Nylon, Screen
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Pastel, Paper
2010s Modern Portrait Photography
Color, Archival Pigment
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Resin
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Resin
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Resin
2010s Pop Art Mixed Media
Screen, Wood, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
2010s Pop Art More Art
Ceramic, Porcelain, Mixed Media, Screen
2010s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Offset
2010s Pop Art Mixed Media
Leather, Polyester, Mixed Media
2010s Pop Art Mixed Media
Ceramic, Porcelain, Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Conceptual Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Wood, Oil
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
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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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