Yayoi Kusama’s most interesting artworks & exhibitions

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Born in 1929 in Nagano, Japan, Yayoi Kusama is one of the leading figures in the Japanese avant-garde movement. Although she’s widely known as a sculptor and painter, Kusama is also an installation artist, photographer, novelist, performance artist, and conceptual artist.

She moved to the U.S. in 1957 and rose to fame in the New York art scene in the 1960s. She performed thought-provoking Happenings and exhibited immersive sculptures with pumpkins, polka dots, and lights. Kusama not only elevated pop and feminist art but also influenced famous artists like Andy Warhol. Her work has been exhibited at the MoMA and Tate Modern.

Yayoi Kusama & Pumpkins – What you should know

Installations, Paintings, Sculptures / 8 minutes of reading
A life without art would be soundless, tasteless, and shapeless; essentially, an abyss. A life without art would be dull because art is beneath the structure of everything and anything that matters. No one recognizes its fundamental need to society and audiences more than artist Yayoi Kusama does. The global success of Kusama Yayoi Kusama

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Yayoi Kusama – Dots for Love and Peace, 2009, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand feat

Yayoi Kusama covers the City Gallery Wellington with her dots

Installations / 2 minutes of reading
Dots for Love and Peace (2009) was one of only three temporary public art projects worldwide designed by iconic Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. It was installed on the exterior architecture of the City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand. Dots for Love and Peace is an intense and unexpected public artwork and reflects Kusama’s obsessive interest in

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Yayoi Kusama’s Yellow Trees covers entire buildings in New York

Installations / 1 minute of reading
In celebration of Yayoi Kusama’s past retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art earlier in 2012, two off-site projects took place. In one of them, Kusama’s rhythmic dotted “Yellow Tree motif transformed a construction site in the Meatpacking District in Manhattan into a giant canvas. A detail of the original painting Yellow Trees (1994)

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