Yayoi Kusama
Biography
Yayoi Kusama started to paint using polka dots and nets as motifs at around age ten, and created fantastic paintings in watercolors, pastels and oils. She is best known for her works featuring repeating motifs and psychedelic imagery that evoke themes of psychology, feminism, obsession, sex, creation, destruction, and intense self-reflection.
She went to the United States in 1957. Exhibiting several large paintings, soft sculptures, and environmental sculptures using mirrors and electric lights. In the late 1960s, she staged many elaborate happenings like body painting festivals, fashion shows and anti-war demonstrations. She is contemporary of Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg. She is regarded and the best-selling living female artist.
In the 1970s she returned to Japan and has been living voluntarily in a Mental Health Hospital since.
Born: Nagano-Ken, Japan, 1929
Education: Kyoto Municipal School of Arts & Crafts, Kyoto, Japan – Arts and Crafts School, Kyoto, Japan – Art Students’ League, New York, USA
Exhibitions
Select Exhibitions
2017
Inaugural exhibition Creation is a Solotary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art, YAYOI KUSAMA MUSEUM, Tokyo
YAYOI KUSAMA : LIFE IS THE HEART OF A RAINBOW, National Galley Singapore / Galley of Modern Art[GOMA], Brisbane, Nov.2017-Feb.2018 / The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara [ Museum MACAN], Jakarta, May.-Sep.2018
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors
HIrshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington, D.C / Seattle Art Museum, Jun.-Sep.2017 / The Broad, Los Angels, Oct.2017-Jan.2018 / Art Galley of Ontario, Toronto, Mar.-May.2018 / Cleaveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Jul.-Sep.2018 / High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Nov.2018-Feb.2019
YAYOI KUSAMA: My Eternal Soul, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2016
Imagined Peripheries, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
Yayoi Kusama : Prints, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
Kusama Monochrome, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
YAYOI KUSAMA My Eternal Soul Paintings, Victoria Iro MAyfair, London
Yayoi Kusama : Sculptures, Paintings & Mirror Rooms, Victoria Miro Galley I, Gallery II and Garden, London
primal lines, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
2015
YAYOI KUSAMA, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark / Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Feb.-May.2016 / Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Jun.-Sep.2016 / Helsinki Art Museum, Oct.2016-Jan.2017
YAYOI KUSAMA The Place for My Soull, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
YAYOI KUSAMA INFINITY THEORY
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
YAYOI KUSAMA GIVE ME LOVE, David Zwirner, New York
YAYOI KUSAMA : Prints Part 2, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
YAYOI KUSAMA : Prints Part 1, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
2014
ZERO : Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins, Victoria Miro, London
KUSAMA YAYOI A DREAM IN JEJU, Bonte Museum, Jeju
DOGO ONSEN ART2014, Dogo Onsen, Ahime, Japan, Pre open, Dec.2013
2013
Yayoi Kusama I Who Have Arrived In Heaven, David Zwirner, New York
Shinjuku Creaters Festa, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Postwar Sculpture : Focus on Materials, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
KUSAMA YAYOI, A Dream I Dreamed, Daegu Art Museum, Korea /Museum Contemporary Art Shanghai, Dec.2013- Mar.2014 / Seoul Arts Centre, May.-Jun.2014 / Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Feb.-May. 2015 / National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Jun.-Aug.2015
Takahashi Collection – Mindfullness
Kirishima Open-Air Museum ,Kagoshima /Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Sep.-Nov.2013 / Nagoya City Art Museum, Apr.-Jun. 2014
Yayoi Kusama. Obsession Infinita [Infinite Obsession]
Malba – Fundacacion Constantini, Buenos Aires / Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Oct.2013-Jan.2014 / Centro Cultutal Banco do Brasil, Brasília, Feb.-Apr.2014 / Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, May.-Jul.2014 / Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Sep.2014-Jan.2015 / Fundacio´n CorpArtes, Santiago, Chili, Mar.-Jun.2015
Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
YAYOI KUSAMA
Dots Obsession – Love Transformed into Dots
SKMU Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway
Flowers, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
Visceral Sensation – Voices So Far, So Near
21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Mori Art Museum 10th Anniversary exhibition
All You Need is Love : From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsume Miku
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
YAYOI KUSAMA Paintings & Accumulation Sculptures
Victoria Miro, London
Wonderful My Art
Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
Situations and Exchanges: Fukuoka Contemporary Art Chronicle
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art,
Fukuoka Art Museum
2012
YAYOI KUSAMA : New Paintings 2, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Japan
YAYOI KUSAMA : New Paintings, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Art Will Thrill You! – The Essence of Modern Japanese Art
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Son et Lumier (et sagesse profonde
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, kanazawa
The Osaka Best Art Exhibition
Osaka City Museum of Modern Art [tentative name], Shinsaibashi exhibition room
Dialogues, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
YAYOI KUSAMA METALLIC, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
Toyohashi City Museum Art and History
LA VIE DES FORMES, les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Masterpieces from the Ohara Museum of Art, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
YAYOI KUSAMA – HONG KONG BLOOMS IN MY MIND, Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery
To Wander a Garden, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
The 35th Anniversary of the National Museum of Art, Osaka: the Allure of the Collection
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
MOMAS Collection[1], The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art. Japan
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan
State Museum of Modern Art of Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow
!ne. Shimane, Iwami Art Museum, Shimane
Kusama New Works
Victoria Miro, London
Yayoi Kusama Eternity of Eternal Eternity
The National Museum of Art, Osaka / The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Apr.2012 / Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Jul.2012 / Niigata City Art Museum, Nov.2012 / Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Apr.2013 / Oita Art Museum, Jul.2013 / Museum of Art Kochi, Nov.2013-Feb.2014 / Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Apr.-Jun.2014 / Akita Senshu Museum of Art & Akita Museum of Modern Art, Jul.-Sep.2014 / Matsuzakaya Museum, Nagoya, Sep.-Oct.2014
2011
YAYOI KUSAMA New Paintings & Sculptures, Victoria Miro, London
YAYOI KUSAMA, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
YAYOI KUSAMA, GAGOSIAN GALLERY, Rome
2010
Yayoi Kusama Outdoor Sculptures, Victoria Miro, London
AICHI TRIENNALE 2010 Arts and Cities
Oasis 21, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and Nayabashi, Nagoya
INNOCENCE -ART towards LIFE
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
Yayoi Kusama in ’80s, OTA FINE ARTS, Tokyo
17TH BIENNALE OF SYDNEY
THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE SONGS OF SURVIVAL IN A PRECARIOUS AGE
Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Arts Towada Grand Opening Memorial Exhibition
YAYOI KUSAMA Singing in Towada, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
GARDEN OF PAINTING Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2009
Yayoi Kusama at Fairchild
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami
YAYOI KUSAMA. I WANT TO LIVE FOREVER
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Twist and Shout: Comtemporary Art from Japan
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre,Thailand
Special Exhibition: YAYOI KUSAMA – The Place for My Soul
Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nggano, Japan
Yayoi Kusama Propagating room
Six, Osaka, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Outdoor Sculptures, Victoria Miro, London
WALKING IN MY MIND, The Hayward Gallery, London
Big in Japan
The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Yayoi Kusama Flowers That Bloom at Midnight
GAGOSIAN GALLERY, Beverly Hills, Los Angels
Yayoi Kusama
GAGOSIAN GALLERY, West 24th Street, New York
2008
Art of our time PRAEMIUM IMPERIALE 20
The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Liverpool Biennial International 08: MADE UP
Pilkingtons Warehouse, Liverpool
Akasaka Art Flower 08, Akasaka Sacas, Tokyo
YAYOI KUSAMA MIRRORED YEARS
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam / Musueum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,24 Feb.-8 Jun.2009 / City Gallery Wellington, 26 Sep.-7 Feb.2010
Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
YAYOI KUSAMA, STEVEN PARRINO, ANSELM REYLE, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro, London
Yayoi Kusama
Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
JAPAN! CULTURE + HYPER CULTURE
The Kennedy Center, Washington,D.C.
Yayoi Kusama
Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
2007
Yayoi Kusama
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art. Japan
Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro, London
Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan
Long March Project, “798” Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China / Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 25 Dec.2007-20 Jan.2008
YAYOI KUSAMA, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
KUSAMA “Dots Obsession – Dots Transformed into Love”
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany / WIELS, Brussel, Belgium,13 Sep.-18
Nov.2007 / la Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, 11 Jul.-17 Aug.2008
2006
Real Utopia Stories of the Unlimited
21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
COLLAGE AND PHOTOMONTAGE
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
YAYOI KUSAMA, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Crimson Eye, Piece Unique, Paris
Naoshima Standard Exhibition
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
IDOL!, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary
Aomori Art of Art, Aomori, Japan
Yayoi Kusama
Arndt&Partner, Berlin, YAYOI KUSAMA Metamorphosis
Galleria Civica Modena, Italy
Singapore Biennale
Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
ZERO. International Avant-garde of the 50’s and 60’s
museum kunst palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Yayoi Kusama solo exhibition “YAYOI in FOREVER”
Forever Museum of Contemporary Art gallery, Akita, Japan
Yayoi Kusama
Iwami Art Museum, Shimane, Japan
Permanent Collection
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Yayoi Kusama
Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Part object Part sculpture
Wexner Center for the Arts, Gallery C, Ohio
Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo
Mori Museum, Tokyo
Line and Surface Works on Paper
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Vision II
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2005
Snoopy LIFE DESIGN Happinessmis THE 55th ANNIVERSARY
Tokyo International Forum, Hall A, Tokyo / Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, Korea, 29 Jun.2007-16 Sep.2007
Shunan City Museum of Art and History, Yamaguchi, Japan
KUSAMA SEOUL, Jean Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
art collection 2005, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
YAYOI KUSAMA KA! 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
ARTSingapore2005
Art-2 Gallery, Singapore, Bienal de Valencia
Valencia, Spain
Japanese Women Artist in Avant-garde Movement, 1950-1975
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
YAYOI KUSAMA The Place for My Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
Eye : Dot & Net, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
On Conceptual Clothing
Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
Yayoi Kusama Partl:Print1980-1983/Painting(recent work)
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Partll:Print1994-2005/Painting(recent work)/Objet
POP POP POP The Facet of Korean and Japanese Contemporary Art
Gana Art Center, Seoul
Chikaku Time and Memory in Japan
Kunsthaus Graz, AustriaAustria
Summer of Love.Art of the Psychedelic Era
TATE Liverpool / Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt,2 Nov.2005-12 Feb.2006 / Kunsthalle Wien, Austria,5 May.-3 Sep.2006 / Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,24 May.-16 Sep.2007
Kiss the Frog! The Art of Transformation
Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo
Yayoi Kusama 60’s Fashion
MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
YAYOI KUSAMA: Sailing the Sea of Infinity
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Yayoi Kusama Furniture by Graf
Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano
YAYOI KUSAMA
Studio Guenzani, Milano
Homestyle, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Art-Robe: Women Artists at the Nexus of Art and Fashion, UNESCO Headquarters,Paris
YAYOI KUSAMA: Eight Places for Burning Soul
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Drifting Objects of Dreams: The Collection of Shuzo Takiguchi
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama Exhibition
Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
YAYOI KUSAMA, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
2004
Shanhai Art Fair, Shanai
Yayoi Kusama Colorist
Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
On Conceptual Clothing, Musashino Art University Museum & Library,Tokyo
Seoul Art Fair, Hangaram Art Center, Seoul Art Center
Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Steel Balls and Soft White Objects
Victor Vasarely: Black and White Painting from the 1950s
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
IN BED Images from a Vital Stage
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R.Weisman Art Foundation
The New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana/
Bakersfield Museum of Art , Calfornia, 20 Nov.2004-25 Mar.2005
Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan
Welcom to the World of Art! A Beautiful Journey…of Life
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Exhibition of Museum Collection
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Maestros in early period
Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Japanease Contemporary Art Performance “EIJANAIKA! YES FUTURE! LE JAPON POST XX SIÈCLE”
Collection Lambert en Avignon, France
Water Level of Image- Transformation and Reflection of Narcissus
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Couple, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
KIAF 2004, Coex, Seoul
GROUND-FIELD-SURFACE
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
WHY NOT LIVE FOR ART?
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art, 1880 to the Present, Highlights from the Museum of Modern Art
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Lee Ufan: Yayoi Kusama, Jean Art Center, Seoul
And or Versus?: Adventures in Images , YOKOHAMA MUSEUM OF ART, Kanagawa, Japan
Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The University Art Museum – Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
Art & Life
Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Paintings, Patricia Piccinini: Sculpture, Patti Smith: Photographs
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
The 2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
YAYOI KUSAMA Nets 1959-1999
MOMA Contenporary, Fukuoka, Japan
KUSAMATRIX, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo / Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan, 5 Jun.-22 Aug.2004
2003
Lille 2004, Lille, France
Obsession, Galica Arte Contemporanea, Milano
YAYOI KUSAMA, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany / ZACHETA NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Warsaw, Poland,6 Apr.-16 May.2004
Primary Matters: The Minimalist Sensibility,1959 to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Korea Japan Contemporary Art 2003, Jean Art Center, Seoul
Inaugural Exhibition HAPPINESS, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
FIAC, Paris
Yayoi Kusama, Piece Unique, Paris
Biennale D’art Contemporain de Lyon 2003, Lyon, France
Yayoi Kusama, J. Johnson Gallery, Florida
Nerima Art Museum,Tokyo
KUSAMA YAYOI LOVE FOREVER
Fabian & Claude Water Galerie, Zurich
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003
Echigo-Tsumari Region, Niigata, Japan
Shunan City Museum of Art and History, Yamaguchi, Japan
2003: An Art Voyage, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Yayoi Kusama Prints, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama-Beyond the Labyrinth
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan /Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido,20 Sep.-24 Nov.2003
Do Hope for the Future
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo
Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan
Color Charity Exhibition 2003 Yellow, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
girls don’t cry
Parco Museum, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan
Transition, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
On this Side of the Sky UNESCO Salutes Women in Art
UNESCO Women and Gender Equality Unit, Paris
Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collections
Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Twinkling touch: Japanese and Western pointillism
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Yayoi Kusama Prints & Pumpkin Ceramic Object Exhibition
Jean Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collections
Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo
Pop and More from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection
Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles
Walking in the City
apexart, New York
2002
Yayoi Kusama, Bass Museum, Miami, U.S.A.
Yayoi Kusama, Galeria DECO, Sao Paulo
Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Loud & Clear, BALTIC, England
Yayoi Kusama
Mubanso, Nagano, Japan
Mostra SESC de ArtesSESC, Sao Paulo
Collection 1
Chateau d’Arenthon
FIAC, Paris
The Growth of the Museum Collection: 1952-2002
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Attitude 2002
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Private Luxury
Manno Art Museum, Osaka, Japan
Exhibition of Museum Collection
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Vitality in Modern Collection from Iwaki City Art Museum
Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Japan
Yayoi Kusama Dot paradise in Shangri-La, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 2002, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
Yayoi Kusama Permanent Collection, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
Hot Air, Carlow town, Ireland
Chat @ the MIMOCA, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), Kagawa, Japan
Yayoi Kusam
Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan
Transformation Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Yayoi Kusama/Furniture, graf, Osaka, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, Book cellar amus, Osaka, Japan
Sleeping/Dreaming/Awakening
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
of Contemporary Paintings
Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan
Fetish:Art/World, USLA FOWLER Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles
Expo.02 Instant and Eternity, Murten, Mora, Switzerland, Korea Japan Contemporary Art 2002
Jean Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Acquisitions, Masuda City Museum, Simane, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Inoue, Nagano, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, Masuda City Museum, Shimane, Japan
Yayoi Kusama Silkscreen
Mubanso, Nagano, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
Yayoi Kusama Mixed Media, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
Box Art
The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
Yayoi Kusama Solitude of the Earth, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
The Unfinished Century: Legacies of 20th Century Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2001
Silver, Leo Castelli, New York, Yayoi Kusama
Studio Guenzani, Milan
graf, Osaka, Japan
Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection
Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Facts of Life, Heyward Gallery, London
Yayoi Kusama, International Triennale of Contemporary Art YOKOHAMA 2001
Pacifico Yokohama Convention Hall and Red Brick Warehause No.1, Kanagawa, Japan
Niigata City Art Museum, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Toyama Kenmin Kaikan Museum of Art, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Mirro Gallery, London
Louise Bourgeois Yayoi Kusama Works from 1942 to 2000, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Global Visions- Art after 1980 from the Museum Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan
Parkett Artists’ Editions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Death of an Illusion, Piece Unique, Paris
Lannees Pop, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Eternal White, The Japan Foundation, Roma
Century City, Tate Modern, London
2000
Hyper Mental, Kunsthaus, Zurich
Cultural Ties, Jariwara Westzone Gallery, London
Yayoi Kusama
Le consortium, Dijon, France / Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris, 13 Feb.-19 May.2001 / KUNSTHALLEN BRANDTS ÆDEFABRIK, Denmark, 12 Jun.2001- / Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France, 5 Oct.2001-6 Jan.2002 / KUNSTHALLE Wien, Vienna, Jan.2002- / Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea, 15.Feb.-28.Apr .2003 / Artsonje Museum, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea, 4.Jul-28.sep.2003
Yayoi Kusama, Jean Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Japanese Art in the 20th Century, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toky
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
Department Store of Contemporary Art, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Recent Works, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Biennale of Sydney 2000
Yayoi Kusama Early Drawings from the Collection of Richard Castellane
The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey / Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 3 Dec.2000-28 Jan.2001 / Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario, 22 Feb.-8 Apr.2001 / Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, 6 Oct.2001-6 Jan.2002 / Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, 21 Sep.-1 Dec.2002
Yayoi Kusama Prints
Mubanso, Nagano, Japan, One Heart, One World
New York / Sao Paulo / Paris / Hanoi / Australia / Tokyo / Sendai / Takamatsu / Kumamoto / Matsuyama / Osaka / Chiba / Gunma / Niigata / Yamagata
The Permanent Exhibition, Takamatsu City Museum of Art
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan
Permanent Collection, Niigata City Art Museum, Japan
Art Buffet-Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection
Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan, Yayoi Kusama
Piece Unique, Paris
Vacant Lot, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, Serpentine Gallery, London
1996
Collage Repetitive Vision MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
Repetition Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
New Installations Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, MA, U.S.A.
Female Identity Okayama Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
New Collection of Commissioned on the theme ‘Hiroshima’ Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Yayoi Kusama Recent Works Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Form Beyond Forms 16 abstract paintings in Japan
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Materials and Forms, Nine Artists’ Attitudes
Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan
Shedding Light on Art in Japan 1953 Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
A Decade of an Avant-garde Artists Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama : 10 Paintings from 60’s to the Present
Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo L’informe: Mode d’emploi Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Now Here Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Yayoi Kusama The 1950s and 1960s Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Art at Home Ideal Standard Life Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Art of Post-war 1960s Avant-Garde Kurashiki Municipal Art Museum, Okayama, Japan
Inside of Works, Outside of Works Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
A Panorama of My Youth MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
The 31st ‘Artist Today’ Exhibition Yokohama Citizens’ Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
GEKI and GEKI : Art Then Art Now Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Inside the Visible: an Elliptical Traverse of 20th-Century Art The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, U.S.A.
Collection in Focus: Selected drawing Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1964 : A Turning Point in Japanese Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
With drawing Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York
1995
Kanagawa International Prints Festival Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Japan
Imagery Forest Inazawa City Ogisu Memorial Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Revolution: Art of The Sixties From Warhol to Beuys Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
A Technique of Contemporary Art (1) Collage Nerima Museum of Art, Tokyo
Photographs Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Recent Prints Memorial Shot Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama : I who committed Suicide Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
About Lines : Non-existing Modernism and Invisible Realism Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
Japanese Culture : The Fifty post War Years Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan, 14 Jun.-21 Jul. / Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan, 15 Aug.-24 Sep. / Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 8 Oct.-5.Nov.
Marx Faux Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York
Division of Labor: ‘Women’s Work’ in Contemporary Art Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
ARS 95 HELSINKI Museum of Contemporary Art, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
Japan Today Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark / Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway / Waino Aaltosen Museo, Turku, Finland / Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
1994
Infinity of Space and Light in the 1950s and 1960s: Yayoi Kusama from the Collection of Richard Castellane, Esquire Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Museum City Tenjin ’94, Super Suburb
Yayoi Kusama MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
Out of Bounds Benesse House Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Okayama, Japan
aspects(1979-1994) Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Japanese Self-Portrait Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama Galleria Cardazzo, Venice
Very Special Art The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo / The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan, Jul.94
memento mori: Visions of Death c.1500-1994 Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo / Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Japan, Jul.
Yayoi Kusama – My Solitary Way to Death Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Japan
When the Body Becomes Art Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Nagano, Japan
Japanese Art after 1945:Scream Against the Sky
Yokohama Art Museum / Guggenheim Museum, Soho, New York, 14 Sep.- / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 31 May.1995-
Cross and Square Grids The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1993
Osaka City Museum, Osaka, Japan
Japanese Outsider Art: Inhabitants of Another World Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Art from US Landmark Hall, Yokohama, Japan
Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in Contemporary Art Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Vision, Illusion, and Anti-illusion from the Museum Collection Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Yayoi Kusama The 45th Venice Biennale
Yayoi Kusama Galleria d’Arte del Naviglio, Venice
Yayoi Kusama Galleria Valentina Moncada, Roma
Yayoi Kusama Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
HAM Collection Yayoi Kusama 1952-1993 Gallery HAM, Nagoya, Japan
1992
Adam & Eve The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Bursting Galaxies The Sogetsu Art Museum, Tokyo / Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan, 7
Yayoi Kusama, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
1991
Landscape into Modern Art: from the Museum Collection Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Yayoi Kusama: Between Heaven and Earth Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
Contemporary Art in Monochrome : from the Museum Collection Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
The 2nd Tokyo Art Expo 1991 The Tokyo International Trade Center, Harumi
Yayoi Kusama MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
The World of Box ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito Art, Ibaraki, Japan
Nobori Exhibition Sumida Riverside Hall, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama-Collage 1952-83 Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
1990
Olympic International Exhibition Jean Gallery, Seoul, Korea
(a hot air balloon exhibition designed by various artists)
Grand Palais, Paris / CNIT, Paris, 10-30 Jun.1991 / Loire Castles, 28-29 Sep.1991 / Kronenbourg Gallery, Paris, 12-22 Nov.1991
Art and Vision: from Japanese Modern Art
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
The Silent Dialogue: Still Life in the West and Japan
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
The Art of Collage/Assemblage from the museum collection
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
1989
Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes
Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
(KAME-ZA) Shell and Vessel, Signifying
Yokohama Citizens’ Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
Soul Burning Flash
The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Yayoi Kusama: Retrospective
Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York
The “Junk” Aesthetic: Assemblage of the 1950s and Early 1960s
Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York
20ste Biennale Middelheim-Japanese:Europalia 89
Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldhouwkunst Middelheim, Antwerp
Art Exciting ’89
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan / Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, 20 Sep.-12 Nov.
Exhibition of New Collection from Apr.1, 1986-Mar. 31, 1989
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
An Aspect of Contemporary Painting: Structure of Repetition
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
1988
Art Kites
Mie Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Large Works from the Permanent Collection
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase
1987
Collection Agnes et Frits Becht, The Centre Regional d’art Contemporain Midi-Pyrenees, Lagere, France
Recent Acquisitions, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Medusa’s Magic: European Mannerism, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Yayoi Kusama, Musee Municipal de Dole, France
Yayoi Kusama, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
1986
Yayoi Kusama, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Calais, France
Japon des Avant Gardes 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Art: A Dialogue on Peace, Ohkurayama Memorial Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Christian Cheneau, Paris
Yayoi Kusama, Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
Infinity ∞ Explosion, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Contemporary Japanese Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
1985
Reconstruction: Avant-garde Art in Japan, 1945-1965, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Japanese Contemporary Paintings, National Gallery of Modern Art, Jaipur House, India Gate, New Delhi
1984
Blam! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yayoi Kusama, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Two Decades of Contemporary Painting: 1960-1980, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Collectie Becht, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1983
The First Show : Paintings and Sculptures from Eight Collections 1940-1980
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Trends in Contemporary Art II The 1960s- Towards Diversity, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Dada in Japan / Japanese Avant-garde from 1920 to 1970: A Photo Documentation
Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf
Yayoi Kusama : 1950-1970, Internationale Galerij Ornis, Hague
Kusama’s Self-Obliteration (Performance), Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama, Supplement Gallery, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama: Encounter of Souls
Jardin de Luseine, Harajuku, Tokyo
1982
Yayoi Kusama
Galleria del Navigrio, Milan
November Steps: Artists of Today
Yokohama Citizens’ Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions
National Museum of International Art, Osaka, Japan
Obsession Yayoi Kusama
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
1981
The 1960’s – A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 10 Feb.-14 Mar.1982
Art Kites
Yayoi Kusama, Kiku Sui, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
My Manifesto for 1981, Abe studio, Tokyo, Sendai civic gallery, Miyagi, Japan
1980
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity and Repetition of Nets and polka Dots, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo
Illusory Scenes, National Museum of International Art, Osaka, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Self obliteration of Nets and polka Dots, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo
Unknown Works by Yayoi Kusama: The Flash That Burns Grass, American Center, Tokyo
1978
Acquisitions, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, U.S.A.
Shapes of Chair- From Design to Art, National Museum of International Art, Osaka, Japan
1977
The Third Moscow International Art Exhibition, Moscow International Biennale
Improbable Furniture, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. / La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
1976
Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Art, A Requiem for Death and Life
Osaka Formes Gallery, Tokyo
1975
Message of Death from Hades, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
Contemporary Art from the College Collection, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, U.S.A.
1974
Woman’s Work: American Art 1974, The Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, PA, U.S.A.
1971
Cage/Painting/Woman
Internationale Galerij Orez, Hague
1970
Zero Unexecuted
Institute of the History of Arts, University of Amsterdam
1968
Soft and Apparently Soft Sculpture
Cedar Rapids, Iowa and New York
Lichter Gallery, Germany
Mickery Gallery, Holland
Visual Arts Committee Presents Selections from the NYU Art Collection
NYU Gould Student Center Gallery, New York
Three Blind Mice de Collecties: Visser, Peeters, Becht
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands / Sint Pietersabdij, Ghent, Belgium
1967
Love Room Internationale Galerij Orez, Hague
Aussfellung: Serielle Formationen
Studio Galerie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
1966
Yayoi Kusama Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, U.S.A.
The Object Transformed The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The 33rd Venice Biennale
Kusama’s Peep Show/ Endless Love Show R. Castellane Gallery, New York
Driving Image Show Naviglio Gallery, Milan, Italy / M.E. Thelen Gallery, Essen, Germany
1965
Inner and Outer Space, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Floor Show, R. Castellane Gallery, New York
Japanese Artists abroad Europe and America
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
White on White, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yayoi Kusama, Internationale Galerij Orez, Hague
Nul 1965, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
The New Style of Works of International Avant-garde, Galerie de Bezige, Amsterdam
New Eyes, Chrysler Museum of Art, Provincetown, U.S.A.
1964
Kusama: Driving Image Show
R. Castellane Gallery, New York
The New Art, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, U.S.A.
1963
Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show
Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York
1962
Yayoi Kusama, Robert Hanamura Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
1961
Whitney Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yayoi Kusama: Watercolors
Gres Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Avant-garde 61, Stadtisches Museum in Trier, West Germany
International Malerei, Galerie 59, Stadt Wolframs-Eschenbach, Aschaffenburg, West Germany
Recent Paintings: Yayoi Kusama
Stephen Radich Gallery, New York
1962
Paintings and Drawings from the collection of Mr.& Mrs. Patrick B. McGinnis
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Yayoi Kusama, Gres Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Monochrome Malerei, Stadtisches Museum in Leverkusen, Germany
1959
Nova Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
Brata Gallery, New York
The International Watercolor Exhibition: Twentieth Biennial Brooklyn Museum, New York
1957
Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, U.S.A.
1955
The International Watercolor Exhibition:18th Biennial Brooklyn Museum, New York
The International Watercolor Exhibition Preview Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
1954
Shiroki-ya Department Store, Tokyo
1952
Yayoi Kusama Recent Works
The First Community Center, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
Yayoi Kusama solo exhibition
The First Community Center, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan