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Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and she is also active in painting, performance, video art, 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, the world's top-selling female artist, and the world's most successful living artist. Her work influenced that of her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.

Kusama was raised in Matsumoto, and trained at the Kyoto City University of Arts for a year in a traditional Japanese painting style called nihonga. She was inspired 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. Em

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1929–1944

Yayoi Kusama is born, the youngest of four children, in the small provincial city of Matsumoto about 200 km west of Tokyo. Her upbringing is marked by conservative values and the cold relationship between her parents. Kusama starts painting and drawing at an early age.

1948–1952

Despite her parents’ resistance, Kusama begins to study art in Kyoto, where she learns nihonga painting. She participates in more and more traveling exhibitions, both in her local area as well as in cities like Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. In 1952, Kusama’s first solo exhibition is shown in Matsumoto.

1953

With the help of two psychiatrists who have treated her for her mental disorders, Kusama is admitted to the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Though it is her great desire to go to Paris, Kusama declines the offer when she gets the chance to have a solo exhibition in Tokyo.

1955

Participates in The International Watercolor Exhibition: 18^th Biennial at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. She writes a letter to the

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Yayoi Kusama

Japanese artist and writer (born 1929)

"Kusama" redirects here. For the film director, see Karyn Kusama.

Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and she is also active in painting, performance, video art, 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,^[1] the world's top-selling female artist,^[2] and the world's most successful living artist.^[3] Her work influenced that of her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.

Kusama was raised in Matsumoto, and trained at the Kyoto City University of Arts for a year in a traditional Japanese painting style called nihonga.^[4] She was inspired by American Abst