It has almost been 60 years. Not limiting herself
to paintings or sculptures, from poems, novels and films to fashion,
Kusama has always continued to challenge herself to new things.

Kids Guide vol.1

An Avant-Garde Artist

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama was born in
Matsumto City,
Nagano Prefecture,
Japan, a place known
for being surroundedby beautiful
mountains.

Every day, all she thinks about is art.
From day to night, her creativity never stops.
What do you think she is creating at this very moment?

She is the youngest
daughter in her family,
who ran a big wholesale
business that sold seeds
and seedlings to growflowers and trees!

The artworks that she hascreated so far have been viewed
by many people all over the world.
From a young age,
Kusama could hear flowers
and dogs speaking to her,and she suffered fromvisions that made herbelieve she was being
surrounded by a grey curtain.

Now, with the establishment of
Yayoi Kusama Museum, everyone can visit
and enjoy her works at any time.

Thank you for visiting!
Hope to see you again!

Every day, as a way to copewith her fear and trauma fromthese illusionary experiences,
she drew the visions she saw.

After the Second World War, Kusama entered an art school,
where she began to experiment with different styles.
She rented a flat in New York
City where she drew and painted
every day.
She exhibited paintings
that looked like nets,
with sequences of white circles
as tiny as seashells painted
over blackーone of them is a
10-meter-long canvas.

These white net paintings
with no center, beginning or
end blew the New Yorkers away,caught everyone‛s attention
like no others.

What kind of world exists
beyond these mountains?
She always had a dream to venture
into the unknown world,
and to create her own art in a placeof freedom, where she could let her
imagination and creativity run wild.
Although at the time, it was not easy
to travel overseas for Japanese people,
with high hopes, Kusama flew halfway
across the world to the United States.

From soft sculptures
to infinity mirrored rooms,
nude performancesand many more,
one after the next,
Kusama produced new art.

After the Second World War, Kusama entered an art school,
where she began to experiment with different styles.
She rented a flat in New York
City where she drew and painted
every day.
She exhibited paintings
that looked like nets,
with sequences of white circles
as tiny as seashells painted
over blackーone of them is a
10-meter-long canvas.

These white net paintings
with no center, beginning or
end blew the New Yorkers away,caught everyone‛s attention
like no others.

What kind of world exists
beyond these mountains?
She always had a dream to venture
into the unknown world,
and to create her own art in a placeof freedom, where she could let her
imagination and creativity run wild.
Although at the time, it was not easy
to travel overseas for Japanese people,
with high hopes, Kusama flew halfway
across the world to the United States.

From soft sculptures
to infinity mirrored rooms,
nude performancesand many more,
one after the next,
Kusama produced new art.

It has almost been 60 years. Not limiting herself
to paintings or sculptures, from poems, novels and films to fashion,
Kusama has always continued to challenge herself to new things.

Kids Guide vol.1An Avant-Garde Artist

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama was born in
Matsumto City,
Nagano Prefecture,
Japan, a place known
for being surroundedby beautiful
mountains.

Every day, all she thinks about is art.
From day to night, her creativity never stops.
What do you think she is creating at this very moment?

She is the youngest
daughter in her family,
who ran a big wholesale
business that sold seeds
and seedlings to growflowers and trees!

The artworks that she hascreated so far have been viewed
by many people all over the world.
From a young age,Kusama could hear flowers
and dogs speaking to her,and she suffered fromvisions that made herbelieve she was being
surrounded by a grey curtain.

Now, with the establishment of
Yayoi Kusama Museum, everyone can visit
and enjoy her works at any time.

Thank you for visiting!
Hope to see you again!

Every day, as a way to copewith her fear and trauma fromthese illusionary experiences,
she drew the visions she saw.