page_title: Yayoi Kusama
section_title: Exhibition catalogs
hierarchical_section_title: Yayoi Kusama / Works and publications / Exhibition catalogs
caption_attribution_description: English: Yayoi Kusama signing an exhibit.
context_page_description: Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan.
  Kusama was raised in Matsumoto, and trained at the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts in a traditional Japanese painting style called nihonga. Kusama was inspired, however, by American Abstract impressionism. She moved to New York City in 1958 and was a part of the New York avant-garde scene throughout the 1960s, especially in the pop-art movement. Embracing the rise of the hippie counterculture of the late 1960s, she came to public attention when she organized a series of happenings in which naked participants were painted with brightly colored polka dots. Since the 1970s, Kusama has continued to create art, most notably installations in various museums around the world.
context_section_description: Rodenbeck, J.F. "Yayoi Kusama: Surface, Stitch, Skin." Zegher, M. Catherine de. Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-262-54081-0 OCLC 33863951
  Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 30 Jan – 12 May 1996.
  Kusama, Yayoi, and Damien Hirst. Yayoi Kusama Now. New York, N.Y.: Robert Miller Gallery, 1998. ISBN 978-0-944-68058-2 OCLC 42448762
  Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 11 June – 7 August 1998.
  Kusama, Yayoi, and Lynn Zelevansky. Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958–1968. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1998. ISBN 978-0-875-87181-3 OCLC 39030076
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 8 Mar – 8 June 1998; three other locations through 4 July 1999.
  Kusama, Yayoi. Yayoi Kusama. Wien: Kunsthalle Wien, 2002. ISBN 978-3-852-47034-4 OCLC 602369060
  Kusama, Yayoi. Yayoi Kusama. Paris: Les Presses du Reel, 2002. ISBN 978-0-714-83920-2 OCLC 50628150
  Seven European exhibitions in France, Germany, Denmark, etc.; 2001–2003.
  Kusama, Yayoi. Kusamatorikkusu = Kusamatrix. Tōkyō: Kadokawa Shoten, 2004. ISBN 978-4-048-53741-4 OCLC 169879689
  Mori Art Museum, 7 Feb.–9 May 2004; Mori Geijutsu Bijutsukan, Sapporo, 5 June–22 Aug 2004.
  Kusama, Yayoi, and Tōru Matsumoto. Kusama Yayoi eien no genzai = Yayoi Kusama: eternity-modernity. Tōkyō: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2005. ISBN 978-4-568-10353-3 OCLC 63197423
  Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, 26 Oct – 19 December 2004; Kyōto Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, 6 Jan – 13 February 2005; Hiroshima-shi Gendai Bijutsukan, 22 Feb – 17 April 2005; Kumamoto-shi Gendai Bijutsukan, 29 Apr – 3 July 2005; at Matsumoto-shi Bijutsukan, 30 July – 10 October 2005.
  Applin, Jo, and Yayoi Kusama. Yayoi Kusama. London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2007. ISBN 978-0-955-45644-2 OCLC 501970783
  Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 10 Oct.–17 Nov 2007.
  Kusama, Yayoi. Yayoi Kusama. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009. ISBN 978-1-932-59894-0 OCLC 320277816
  Gagosian Gallery, New York, 16 Apr – 27 June 2009; Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, 30 May – 17 July 2009.
  Morris, Frances, and Jo Applin. Yayoi Kusama. London: Tate Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-1-854-37939-9 OCLC 781163109
  Reina Sofia, Madrid, 10 May–12 Sep 2011; Centre Pompidou, Paris, 10 October 2011 – 9 January 2012; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 12 July–30 Sep 2012; Tate Modern (London), 9 Feb.–5 June 2012.
  Kusama, Yayoi, and Akira Tatehata. Yayoi Kusama: I Who Have Arrived in Heaven. New York: David Zwirner, 2014. ISBN 978-0-989-98093-7 OCLC 879584489
  David Zwirner Gallery, New York, 8 Nov – 21 December 2013.
  Laurberg, Marie: Yayoi Kusama - In Infinity, Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015, Heine Onstadt, Oslo 2016, Moderna Museum, Stockholm, 2016, and Helsinki Art Museum 2016
  David Zwirner Gallery, New York, 9 November - 14 December 2019.
caption: Kusama signing her art installation