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.
Find a collection of Yayoi Kusama art on 1stDibs.
Pumpkin ST (Kusama 301)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint in colours, on Arches paper, with full margins Edition 77 of 120 38 x 32.5 cm (15 x 12.8 in) 44.5 x 36.5 x 2.5 cm, 17.5 x 14.4 x 1 in Signed, numbered, dated and titled o...
Screen
$556Sale Price|20% Off
Pumpkin, Red/White, Yayoi Kusama 草間 彌生
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Yayoi Kusama (1929) Title: Pumpkin, Red/White Year: 2016 Medium: Painted cast resin sculpture with decorative box, as issued Sculpture Size: 4 × 3.5 x 3.5 inches Inscription:...
Epoxy Resin
$3,400
Yayoi Kusama - With all My Flowering Heart Skateboard Triptych, 3 Skate Decks
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Yayoi Kusama With All My Flowering Heart (Triptych), 2014 Set of Three (3) Separate Limited Edition numbered skate decks on 7-ply Canadian maple wood 31 × 8 × 2/5 inches (each) Hand ...
Wood, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Screen
Pumpkin (NGV)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Hand painted zinc alloy metal pumpkin with perforated dots Edition 45 of 250 12 x 12 cm (4.7 x 4.7 in) Numbered Mint, as issued. Sold in the original packaging Published by NGV
Metal
$1,080Sale Price|20% Off
Pumpkins, Yellow/Black, Red/White (Two Sculptures), Yayoi Kusama 草間 彌生
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Yayoi Kusama (1929) Title: Pumpkins, Yellow/Black, Red/White (Two Sculptures) Year: 2016 Medium: Painted cast resin sculptures with decorative boxes, as issued Sculpture Size...
Epoxy Resin
Kusama Pumpkins (Set of Two)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Set of Two Pumpkins: Yellow and Black / Red and White: An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these small Kusama pumpkin sculptures feature the universal polka dot p...
Resin
Red Mt. Fuji 1982, 1982
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Lovely work from the artist.
Screen
Naoshima Red Pumpkin. Resin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama Cast resin multiple sculpture painted in colors, 2019, with the artist's stamped signature and title on the underside, from a limited edition of undisclosed size, publis...
Resin
$2,350
Love Forever Porcelain Bowl VIP Gold Edition Limited Edition for Ginza 6 opening
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Yayoi Kusama Love Forever Ceramic Bowl (VIP Gold Edition), 2017 Limited Edition Porcelain Bowl Signature, titled and date fired into bowl on the underside 4.5 x 4.5 x 1 inch Limited...
Ceramic, Porcelain, Mixed Media, Screen
Infinity Nets, 1953-1984 Limited edition print by Yayoi Kusama signed
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Infinity Nets, 1953–1984
Medium: Lithograph in colors on Vélin d’Arches paper
Image: 31 × 40.6 cm (12 1/4 ×...
Lithograph
Red Mt. Fuji 1982, 1982
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Lovely work from the artist.
Screen
$188,900
Original HAND SIGNED AND NUMBERED 7/30 Pumpkin (Red) Sculpture on base with box
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Yayoi Kusama Original Limited Edition hand signed and numbered Pumpkin (Red), 1998 Painted cast resin on ceramic tile in the original wood box, display plate and paper box Signed and...
Ceramic, Resin, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Central, HK
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin, 2025 Hand painted zinc alloy metal pumpkin with perforated dots Individually numbered Edition 87/250 30.5 x 30.5 in 12 x 12 cm
Metal
Dawn (Kusama 120)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Edition 75 of 100 61 × 53.6 cm, 24 x 21.1 in Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front Printer Ishida Ryoichi Artwork in excellent condition considering its age. Mi...
Screen
Yayoi Kusama Plush Pumpkin (Yellow and black pumpkin)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Central, HK
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Plush Yellow (Small), 2004 Nylon 6 x 9 2/5 in diameter 15.24 x 24 cm diameter
Nylon, Polyester
$320Sale Price|20% Off
Kusama Plush Pumpkin (Kusama red & white pumpkin)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Red & White Pumpkin (plush): An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art piece - this Kusama plush pumpkin features the universal polka dot patterns and bold colors for which t...
Nylon
$63,000
Pumpkin, 1983 Limited Edition of 75 Screenprint by Yayoi Kusama, hand signed
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Pumpkin
Edition 62/75.
Screenprint [2 screens, 2 colors, 2 runs].
image: 58.7 x 48.5 cm.
sheet: 69 x 55.2 cm.
Published in 1983 on Pêche Soleil pape...
Paper, Screen
Kusama Skateboard decks (Yayoi Kusama MoMa)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama MoMa Skateboard Decks (set of 2 works): These Kusama skateboard decks feature Kusama's Dots Obsession imagery and make for standout Kusama wall art that hangs with ease...
Wood, Offset
Pumpkin (Yellow and Black)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin Open edition Stamped on base (not signed or numbered) New. Sold in the original box Benesse Museum, Japan
Resin
$1,000
Yayoi Kusama Art Production Fund Limited Edition Beach Towel (NEW in shrinkwrap)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Art Production Fund Limited Edition Beach Towel (NEW in shrinkwrap), 2014 Digital print on brushed cotton beach towel 70 × 60 inches Edition of 1000 Fabric manufacturer's label to ed...
Textile, Digital
Pumpkin (Kusama 25)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Edition of 75 58.7 x 48.5 cm (23.1 x 19.1 in) Signed, numbered, titled and dated on front Condition on request Published by Okabe Tokuzo Kusama reference 25
Screen
Red and Yellow Pumpkins (set of two)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Milano, MI
Yayoi Kusama dazzles audiences worldwide with her immersive “Infinity Mirror Rooms” and an aesthetic that embraces light, polka dots, and pumpkins. The avant-garde artist first rose ...
Resin
Kusama Large Plush Pumpkin (Kusama red & white pumpkin)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Red & White Pumpkin (plush): An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art piece - this large Kusama plush pumpkin features the universal polka dot patterns and bold colors for w...
Fabric, Screen
Naoshima Yellow Pumpkin. Resin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Cast resin multiple painted in colors, 2016, with the artist's stamped signature and title on the underside, from a limited edition of undisclosed size, published by Benesse Holdings...
Resin
Ashtray (Kusama 145)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint in colours with lamé, on Kakita-shi paper Edition 41 of 100 60 x 68 cm (23.6 x 26.8 in) Signed, numbered, dated and titled on front Artwork in excellent condition conside...
Screen
Pumpkin (White T) (Kusama 149)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Edition 102 of 120 83.5 × 70.5 cm (32.9 x 27.8 in) Signed, titled, dated and numbered on front Artwork in excellent condition considering its age. Only visible under stud...
Screen
Yayoi Kusama Plush Pumpkin (Red and white pumpkin)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Central, HK
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Plush Red and White (Small), 2004 Nylon 6 x 9 2/5 in diameter 15.24 x 24 cm diameter
Nylon, Polyester
Kusama Plush Pumpkin (Kusama yellow & black pumpkin)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Yellow & Black Pumpkin (plush): An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art piece - this large Kusama plush pumpkin features the universal polka dot patterns and bold colors fo...
Nylon
Yayoi Kusama -- When Life Boundlessly Flares Up to the Universe, 2014
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Yayoi Kusama When Life Boundlessly Flares Up to the Universe, 2014 Print on the cotton towel Size 93 x 36.4 x 2.5 cm Framed with the white aluminium frame and UV-protected acrylic gl...
Fabric
Untitled (Infinity Mirror Dots)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Part of a group of 3D pop up books released by a well known art publication, this Yayoi Kusama pop up book features her signature dots and infinity room s...
Thinking Pumpkin
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Edition 16 of 120 75.8 x 62.3 cm (29.8 x 24.5 in) Signed, numbered, and dated on the front Condition Upon Request Publisher Okabe Tokuzo, Japan Kusama 182. 2
Lithograph
$26,817
Vase (2)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Lithograph Edition 14 of 50 44.6 x 31.7 cm (17.5 x 12.4 in) Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front Artwork in excellent condition. Minor imperfections may appear due to the ...
Lithograph
Kusama Pumpkins (Set of 3 works)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Set of 3 Pumpkins: Yellow and Black, Red & White and Red & Black Naoshima: An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these small Kusama pumpkin sculptures feat...
Resin
Red Pumpkin (Dot Obsession Red) - Original sculpture with original case
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Paris, IDF
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin red (Dots Obsession Red) A pumpkin sculpture made of resin Signed under the base of the sculpture Diameter: 8 cm Height: 10.5 cm Presented in the original edito...
Resin
Love Forever
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Yayoi Kusama Love Forever, 2016 Ceramic (Porcelain) Dish and Cover Stamped Yayoi Kusama on bottom 4 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches Unframed Limited edition (exact number created is unkno...
Ceramic, Porcelain, Screen
Flowers FW (Kusama 177)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Colour silkscreen Edition 52 of 90 83.5 × 70.9 cm (32.9 x 27.9 in) Framed 95 x 75.5 cm, 37.4 x 29.7 in Signed, numbered and dated on the front Excellent condition. Some minor toning,...
Screen
Kusama Plush Pumpkin (Kusama red & white pumpkin)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Red & White Pumpkin (plush): An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art piece - this Kusama plush pumpkin features the universal polka dot patterns and bold colors for whi...
Nylon
Self Portrait
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Washington , DC, DC
text en verso
Lithograph
Pumpkin sculpture with holes By Yayoi Kusama
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Pumpkin sculpture with holes By Yayoi Kusama Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist known for her avant-garde and immersive installations, often featuring polka dots and mi...
Metal
Lemon Squash (Kusama 33)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Edition 26 of 100 61 x 53.5 cm (24 x 21 in) Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front Artwork in excellent condition. Minor imperfections may appear due to the age ...
Screen
$24,000
Dots Infinity (1986). Screenprint. Limited Edition 58/100 by Yayoi Kusama ABE 94
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama Dots Infinity (1986). Edition 58/100 Screenprint [2 screens, 2 colors] Signed, titled, dated and numbered 58/100 in pencil by the artist 28 x 32 cm [11 ¹/₃₂ x 12 ¹⁹/₃₂ ...
Screen
Eyes Flying in the Sky, 2006, Screenprint by Yayoi Kusama. signed
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Eyes Flying in the Sky, Edition 70/120. Screenprint [5 screens, 5 colors, 5 runs]. Image: 76 x 60 cm. Sheet: 76 x 60 cm. Published in 2006 by Ishida Ryoichi. A print of the same edit...
Screen
Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin Cast Resin Figure - Red, 2019
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin Cast Resin Figure - Red, 2019 3.5 H x 5.5 W x 5.5 D inches Lacquer-painted cast resin figure. Stamped with the artist’s name on the underside. Sold in the o...
Resin, Lacquer, Paint
$21,000
Infinity Nets (1986). Screenprint. Limited Edition 57/100 by Yayoi Kusama ABE 95
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama Infinity Nets (1986). Edition 57/100 Screenprint [2 screens, 2 colors] Signed, titled, dated and numbered 57/100 in pencil by the artist 28 x 32 cm [11 ¹/₃₂ x 12 ¹⁹/₃₂ ...
Screen
Yayoi Kusama -- Pumpkin ( red )
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin ( red ) Print on the cotton towel Size 34.2 x 91.2 x 2.5 cm Framed with the purple golden aluminium frame and the UV-protected acrylic glass published by シンワ繊...
Fabric
$1,500
Yayoi Kusama - Limited Edition leather clutch (bag) famed Infinity Mirrored Room
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrored Room: The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away: Leather Clutch Purse in Original Box, 2017 Leather outside; polyester inside 6 × 10 × 2 inches This le...
Leather, Polyester, Mixed Media
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Mascot (Yellow and black pumpkin)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Central, HK
Yayoi Kusama Yellow Pumpkin Mascot (Yellow and black), 2019 Parachute Nylon 3 9/10 × 3 × 3 in 10 × 7.5 × 7.5 cm
Nylon, Polyester
$15,000
Set of 3
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Extremely rare set of exhibition offset lithographic poster prints from Yayoi Kusama. They were released by the Matsumoto City Museum of Art in Jap...
Paper
$2,000Sale Price|63% Off
I Want to Sing My Heart in Praise of People
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Extremely rare exhibition poster printed on medium thick paper. It was released by the Matsumoto City Museum of Art in Japan with text on the ve...
Lithograph, Offset
Pumpkins (set of 2)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Washington , DC, DC
These are genuine authorized works by Yayoi Kusama, comes with original boxes. The Yellow comes with a blue box and the Red with a red box.
Resin, Paint
$1,880Sale Price|46% Off
Untitled (exhibition poster)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Untitled (exhibition poster)
Lithograph
Yayoi Kusama Skateboard Deck
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama MoMa Skateboard Deck: This Kusama skateboard deck features Kusama's Dots Obsession imagery and makes for standout Kusama wall art that hangs with ease. Published by MoMa...
Wood, Lithograph, Offset
Kusama Pumpkins (plush): set of 2 (Kusama yellow & black pumpkin)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama plush Pumpkins (set of 2 works): An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these highly decorative plush Kusama pumpkins feature the universal polka dot patterns and bo...
Nylon
$1,560Sale Price|65% Off
Love Forever
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Very rare and never released to the public. Produced on the occasion of the opening of the GINZA SIX store location of Opening Ceremony.
Porcelain
$28,000
Wave Crest (1999). Screenprint. Limited Edition of 60 by Yayoi Kusama (ABE 251)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama Wave Crest (1999). Edition 15/60 Screenprint [3 screens, 2 colors, 3 runs] 59.7 x 47.8 cm (image) 76x 56.5cm (sheet) Edition of 60 + 6 Artist Proofs + 5 Printer Proof...
Lithograph
Women, 2006, by Yayoi Kusama, limited edition print, signed, and numbered
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Women, Edition 6/120. Screenprint. Image: 76 x 60 cm. Sheet: 76 x 60 cm. Published in 2006 by Ishida Ryoichi. A print of the same edition is represented in plate 353, page 201 of the...
Screen
Kusama Skateboard deck (Yayoi Kusama MoMa)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama MoMa Skateboard Deck: This Kusama skateboard deck features Kusama's Dots Obsession imagery and makes for standout Kusama wall art that hangs with ease. Published by MoMa...
Wood, Lithograph, Offset
Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin Cast Resin Figure in Red, 2015
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin Cast Resin Figure in Red, 2015 Lacquer-painted cast resin figure. Stamped with the artist’s name on the underside. Comes in the original box, never opened. ...
Resin, Lacquer, Paint
Yayoi Kusama -- When Life Boundlessly Flares Up to the Universe, 2014
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Yayoi Kusama When Life Boundlessly Flares Up to the Universe, 2014 Print on the cotton towel Size 93 x 36.4 x 2.5 cm Framed with a wood-style aluminium frame and UV-protected acrylic...
Fabric
$23,000
Hat, 1982 original lithograph by Yayoi Kusama, signed and numbered by the artist
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Hat, Edition 100/100. Lithograph [5 plates, 5 colors, 5 runs], Collage. Image: 15.5 x 22.5 cm. Sheet: 27 x 33.5 cm. Framed 37 x 45 cm. Published in 1982 on on Velin d' Arches paper b...
Lithograph