PERFORMANCE ART
'14th Street Happening', 1966
INSTALLATIONS
Kusama with 'Narcissus Garden', Venice Biennale, 1966
“One day, after gazing at a pattern of red flowers on the tablecloth,
I looked up to see that the ceiling, the windows, and the columns seemed to be plastered with the same red floral pattern. I saw the entire room, my entire body, and the entire universe covered with red flowers, and in that instant my soul was obliterated and I was restored, returned to infinity, to eternal time and absolute space.”
–Yayoi Kusama
MIRROR ROOMS
INFINITY
Polka Dots
Obliteration Room
After
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Before
PAINTING
I Want to Live Honestly, Like the Eye in the Picture, 2009.
An Encounter with a Flowering Season, 2009
Pumpkins
1929
1989
Kusama moves to New York in June, enrolling in the Art Students League of New York in order to obtain a student visa.
Around the age of ten, Kusama begins using polka dots and net motifs in her drawings, watercolours, pastels and oils.
1973
REAPPRAISAL
Born in Matsumoto
Back to Japan
Yayoi Kusama's iconic Pumpkin sculpture
FOR 24 YEARS
1958
1939
THE STORY OF
Pumpkin Paintings
YAYOI KUSAMA
“One day, after gazing at a pattern of red flowers on the tablecloth, I looked up to see that the ceiling, the windows, and the columns seemed to be plastered with the same red floral pattern. I saw the entire room, my entire body, and the entire universe covered with red flowers, and in that instant my soul was obliterated and I was restored, returned to infinity, to eternal time and absolute space.”
–Yayoi Kusama
JAPANESE FEMALE POP ARTIST
Active in painting, collage, sculpture, performance art and environmental installations
What we will be making