Yayoi Kusam

ka o nyɛ Japan "contemporary artist" ŋun tuma jendi binyɛra mɛbu, instaalibu, ka lahi nyɛ ŋun peentira, ka dɛmdi dɛma, ka niŋdi yɛltɔɣataɣimalisi ni kpɛriti. O nyɛla ŋun ban di nasara dunia nuuni tuunbaŋsim anfaani puuni yino. 

### Sabbu
Yuuni 1977, Kusama daa yina ni buku din jendi yɛtɔɣataɣimalisi mini peentibu ka boli li *7*. One year later, o tuuli salinli *Manhattan Suicide Addict* appeared. Yuuni 1983 mini yuuni 1990 sunsuuni, o daa naai salima din nyɛ *The Hustler's Grotto of Christopher Street* (1983), *The Burning of St Mark's Church* (1985), *Between Heaven and Earth* (1988), *Woodstock Phallus Cutter* (1988), *Aching Chandelier* (1989), *Double Suicide at Sakuragazuka* (1989), n-ti pahi *Angels in Cape Cod* (1990), .

Anashaara goli October 2023, Kusama daa tim sandaani zaŋ chaŋ o sabbu shɛŋa polo.

### Select exhibitions
* 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, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1996.  
* Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 30 January – 12 May 1996.
* Kusama, Yayoi, and Damien Hirst. *Yayoi Kusama Now*. New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1998.  
* 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.  
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 8 March – 8 June 1998; three other locations through 4 July 1999.
* Kusama, Yayoi. *Yayoi Kusama*. Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 2002.  
* Kusama, Yayoi. *Yayoi Kusama*. Paris: Les Presses du Reel, 2002.  
* Seven European exhibitions in France, Germany, Denmark, etc.; 2001–2003.
* Kusama, Yayoi. *Kusamatorikkusu = Kusamatrix*. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 2004.  
* Mori Art Museum, 7 February – 9 May 2004; Mori Geijutsu Bijutsukan, Sapporo, 5 June – 22 August 2004.
* Kusama, Yayoi, and Tōru Matsumoto. *Kusama Yayoi eien no genzai = Yayoi Kusama: eternity-modernity*. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2005.  
* Tokyo Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, 26 October – 19 December 2004; Kyoto Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, 6 January – 13 February 2005; Hiroshima-shi Gendai Bijutsukan, 22 February – 17 April 2005; Kumamoto-shi Gendai Bijutsukan, 29 April – 3 July 2005; at Matsumoto-shi Bijutsukan, 30 July – 10 October 2005.
* Applin, Jo, and Yayoi Kusama. *Yayoi Kusama*. London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 10 October – 17 November 2007.  
* Kusama, Yayoi. *Yayoi Kusama*. Gagosian Gallery, New York, 16 April – 27 June 2009; Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, 30 May – 17 July 2009.  
* Morris, Frances, and Jo Applin. *Yayoi Kusama*. London: Tate Publishing, 2012.  
* Reina Sofia, Madrid, 10 May – 12 September 2011; Centre Pompidou, Paris, 10 October 2011 – 9 January 2012; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 12 July – 30 September 2012; Tate Modern (London), 9 February – 5 June 2012.
* Kusama, Yayoi, and Akira Tatehata. *Yayoi Kusama: I Who Have Arrived in Heaven*. New York: David Zwirner, 2014.  
* David Zwirner Gallery, New York, 8 November – 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.
* Pérez Art Museum Miami. *Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING*, 9 March 2023 – 11 February 2024.
* National Gallery of Victoria. *Yayoi Kusama*, 15 December 2024 – 21 April 2025

### Illustration work
* Carroll, Lewis and Yayoi Kusama. *Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.* London: Penguin Classics, 2012.  

### Chapters
* Nakajima, Izumi. "Yayoi Kusama between abstraction and pathology". Pollock, Griselda, ed. *Psychoanalysis and the Image: Transdisciplinary Perspectives*. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Pub, 2006. pp.&nbsp;127–160.  
* Klaus Podoll, "Die Künstlerin Yayoi Kusama als pathographischer Fall". Schulz R, Bonanni G, Bormuth M, eds. *Wahrheit ist, was uns verbindet: Karl Jaspers' Kunst zu philosophieren*. Göttingen, Wallstein, 2009. p.&nbsp;119.  
* Cutler, Jody B. "Narcissus, Narcosis, Neurosis: The Visions of Yayoi Kusama". Wallace, Isabelle Loring, and Jennie Hirsh. *Contemporary Art and Classical Myth*. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011. pp.&nbsp;87–109.  
* Gipson, Ferren. "Yayoi Kusama" in *Women's Work*, pp. 75-79, Frances Lincoln, 2022 

### Autobiography, writing
* Kusama, Yayoi. *A Book of Poems and Paintings*. Tokyo: Japan Edition Art, 1977.
* Kusama, Yayoi. *Kusama Yayoi: Driving Image = Yayoi Kusama*. Tokyo: PARCO shuppan, 1986.  
* Kusama, Yayoi, Ralph F. McCarthy, Hisako Ifshin. *Violet Obsession: Poems*. Berkeley: Wandering Mind Books, 1998.  
* Kusama, Yayoi, Ralph F. McCarthy. *Hustlers Grotto: Three Novellas*. Berkeley, California: Wandering Mind Books, 1998.  
* Kusama, Yayoi. *Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.  
* Kusama, Yayoï, and Isabelle Charrier. *Manhattan Suicide Addict*. Dijon: Presses du Réel, 2005.  

### Catalogue raisonné, etc.
* Kusama, Yayoi. *Yayoi Kusama: Print Works*. Tokyo: Abe Corp, 1992.  
* Hoptman, Laura, Akira Tatehata, and Udo Kultermann. *Yayoi Kusama*. London: Phaidon Press, 2003.  
* Kusama, Yayoi, and Hideki Yasuda. *Yayoi Kusama Furniture by Graf: Decorative Mode No. 3*. Tokyo: Seigensha Art Publishing, 2003.  
* Kusama, Yayoi. *Kusama Yayoi zen hangashū, 1979–2004 = All Prints of Kusama Yayoi, 1979–2004*. Tokyo: Abe Shuppan, 2006.  
* Kusama, Yayoi, Laura Hoptman, Akira Tatehata, Udo Kultermann, Catherine Taft. *Yayoi Kusama*. London: Phaidon Press, 2017.  
* Yoshitake, Mika, Chiu, Melissa, Dumbadze, Alexander Blair, Jones, Alex, Sutton, Gloria, Tezuka, Miwako. *Yayoi Kusama : Infinity Mirrors*. Washington, DC. . OCLC&nbsp;954134388

## Exhibitions
Yuuni 1959, Kusama tuuli "exhibition" daa kpe New York, Brata Gallery, din nyɛ "artist's co-op". O tuma shɛŋa nyɛla Donald Judd ni daa labi teei (Judd mini Frank Stella zaa daa deei peentibu shɛŋa ni). Kusama tuma shɛŋa nyɛla din kpe Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, ni Jasper Johns ni din pahi pahi. O mini Europenima nuuni tuunbaŋdiba ban tuma laɣindi luɣ'yini shɛba n-nyɛ  Lucio Fontana, Pol Bury, Otto Piene, ni Günther Uecker,yuunin 1962, o ko n daa nyɛ paɣa ŋun be *Nul* (Zero) international group exhibition din daa niŋ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

### Exhibition list

* 1976: Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
*1983: *Yayoi Kusama's Self-Obliteration (Performance)* at Video Gallery SCAN, Tokyo, Japan
* 1993: Represented Japan at the Venice Biennale
* 1998: "Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama,1958–1969", LACMA
* 1998–99: "Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama,1958–1969" – exhibit traveled to Museum of Modern Art, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo)
* 2001–2003: Le Consortium – exhibit traveled to Japanese Culture House of Paris (French: Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris), Paris; Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; and Artsonje Center, Seoul
* 2004: *KUSAMATRIX*, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
* 2004–2005: *KUSAMATRIX* traveled to Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido); *Eternity – Modernity*, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (touring Japan)
* 2007: FINA Festival 2007. Kusama created *Guidepost to the New Space*, an outdoor installation for Birrarung Marr beside the Yarra River in Melbourne. In 2009, the *Guideposts* were re-installed at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, this time displayed as floating "humps" on a lake.
* 2009: *The Mirrored Years* traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
* 2010: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen purchased the work *Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli's Field*. As of 13 September of that year the mirror room is permanently exhibited in the entrance area of the museum.
* July 2011: Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
* 2012: Tate Modern, London. Described as "akin to being suspended in a beautiful cosmos gazing at infinite worlds, or like a tiny dot of fluoresecent plankton in an ocean of glowing microscopic life", the exhibition features a retrospective spanning Kusama's entire career.
* 30 June 2013 – 16 September 2013: MALBA, the Latinamerican Art Museum of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
* 22 May 2014 – 27 June 2014: Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
* 17 September 2015 – 24 January 2016: *In Infinity*, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
* 12 June – 9 August 2015: *Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Theory*, The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. This was the artist's first solo exhibition in Russia.
* 19 February – 15 May 2016: *Yayoi Kusama – I uendeligheten*, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
* 20 September 2015 – September 2016: *Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room*, The Broad, Los Angeles, California
* 12 June – 18 September 2016: *Kusama: At the End of the Universe*, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
* 1 May 2016 – 30 November 2016: *Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden*, The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut.
* 25 May 2016 – 30 July 2016: *Yayoi Kusama: sculptures, paintings & mirror rooms*, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
* 7 October 2016 – 22 January 2017: *Yayoi Kusama: In Infinity*, organised by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Moderna Museet/ArkDes and Helsinki Art Museum HAM in Helsinki, Finland.
* 5 November 2016 – 17 April 2017: "Dot Obsessions – Tasmania", MONA: Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia.
* 23 February 2017 – 14 May 2017: *Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors*, a traveling museum show originating at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
* 30 June 2017 – 10 September 2017: *Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors*, exhibition travels to Seattle Art Museum
* 9 June 2017 – 3 September 2017: *Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow*, National Gallery Singapore.
* October 2017 – January 2018: *Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors*, exhibition travels to The Broad, Los Angeles, California
* October 2017 – February 2018: *Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins*, Dallas Museum of Art
* November 2017 – February 2018: *Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow* and *Obliteration Room*, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia
* December 2017 – April 2018: *Flower Obsession*, Triennial, NGV, Melbourne, Australia
* March 2018 – February 2019"Pumpkin Forever'(Forever Museum of ContemporaryArt), Gion-Kyoto, Japan
* March–May 2018: *Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors*, exhibition travels to Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
* May–September 2018: *Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow*, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), Jakarta, Indonesia
* July–September 2018: *Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors*, exhibition travels to Cleveland Museum of Art, exhibition travels to Cleveland, Ohio
* July–November 2018: *Yayoi Kusama: Where The Lights In My Heart Go*, exhibition travels to deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
*26 July 2018 – Spring 2019: Yayoi Kusama: *With All My Love for the Tulips, I Pray Forever* (2011)
* March–September 2019: *Yayoi Kusama*, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
* 9 November 2019 – 14 December 2019: Yayoi Kusama: Everyday I Pray For Love, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
* 4 January – 18 March 2020: *Brilliance of the Souls*, Maraya, AlUla
* 4 April – 19 September 2020: Yayoi Kusama: "One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection," Washington, DC
* 31 July 2020 – 3 January 2021: *STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World*, Tokyo, Japan
* 10 April – 31 October 2021: *Kusama: Cosmic Nature*, New York Botanical Garden, New York
* 18 May 2021 – 28 April 2024: *Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms,* Tate Modern, London 
* 15 November 2021 – 23 April 2022: *Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective*, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel 
* 9 March 2023 – 11 February 2024: *Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING*, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida
* 11 May – 21 July 2023: Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
* 14 Sep 2023 – 5 May 2024: *YAYOI KUSAMA: Infinity Mirrored Room – Let’s Survive Together*, 2017, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

### Permanent ''Infinity Room'' installations
* *Infinity Dots Mirrored Room* (1996), Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
* *Infinity Mirror Room fireflies on Water* (2000), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Nancy, France
* *[[You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies]]* (2005), Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
* *Gleaming Lights of the Souls* (2008), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
* *The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away* (2013), The Broad, Los Angeles, California
* *Infinity Dots Mirrored Room* (2014), , Jeju Island, South Korea
* *The Spirits of the Pumpkins Descended into the Heavens* (2015), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
* *Hymn of Life* (2015), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
* *Phalli's Field* (1965/2016), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
* *Love is Calling* (2013/2019), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
* *Light of Life * (2018), North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
* *Brilliance of the Souls* (2019), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), Jakarta, Indonesia
* *Infinity Mirror Room – Let's Survive Forever* (2019), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
* *Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity* (2009), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas

## Peer review
* Applin, Jo. Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room – Phallis Field. Afterall, 2012.
* Hoptman, Laura J., et al. Yayoi Kusama. Phaidon Press Limited, 2000.
* Lenz, Heather, director. Infinity. Magnolia Pictures, 2018.

## Collections
Kusama's tuma shɛŋa nyɛla din be binkura biɛhisi shee kamani Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Tate Modern, London; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo n-ti pahi City Museum of Art din be o ya Matsumoto ka bɛ boli li The Place for My Soul.https://visitmatsumoto.com/en/spot/matsumoto-museum-of-art/

## Kundivihira

## External links

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* Yayoi Kusama Museum (English)
* Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958–1968, Museum of Modern Art
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* How to Paint Like Yayoi Kusama
* Yayoi Kusama in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art
* Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction | HOW TO SEE the art movement with Corey D'Augustine, MoMA
* Phoenix Art Museum online 
* Earth is a polka dot. An interview with Yayoi Kusama Video by Louisiana Channel
* , BBC *[[Newsnight]]*, 26 September 2012
* Why Yayoi Kusama matters now more than ever
* "An Artist for the Instagram Age" by Sarah Boxer, *[[The Atlantic]]*, July/August 2017
* Yayoi Kusama/artnet