Artworks by Yayoi Kusama at Omer Tiroche Gallery on artnet

Yayoi Kusama

(Japanese, born 1929)

Yayoi Kusama

Incomplete Proliferation No. 81, 1951

720,000–780,000 USD

Yayoi Kusama

Net, 1995

210,000–230,000 USD

Yayoi Kusama

Sleeping Girl, 1988

110,000–130,000 USD

Yayoi Kusama

Increment in The Spring, 1986

1,000,000–1,200,000 USD

Yayoi Kusama

Pumpkin, 1991

450,000–650,000 USD

Yayoi Kusama

Infinity Nets, 1990

210,000–250,000 USD

Biography

Timeline

1929: Born in Nagano-Ken, Japan
1948 - 1951: Studied at the Arts and Crafts School, Kyoto, Japan
1948: Entered senior class at the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts & Crafts, Kyoto, Japan
1957 - 1958: Studied at the Art Students' League, New York, USA
1957: Moved to Seattle, USA
1966: Became a US Citizen
1967: Won the Fourth Belgium International Short Film Prize
1968: 'Self-Obliteration' is awarded at the 4th International Festival for Short-Films in Belgium
1973: Returned to Japan
1982: Golden prize from the Italian Academy of Arts
1983: Received the Literary Magazine Prize Yasei Jidai for her novel Christopher Homosexual Brother
1996: Received the International Art Critic Association prize
2000: Received Education Minister's Art Encouragement Prize and Foreign Minister's commendations
2001: Received the Asahi Prize
2003: Received Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
: Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

Exhibitions

2013 - 2014: Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Obsession, Centro Cultural Banco de Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
2013: Dynamo: Un Siecle de lumiere et de mouvement dans l'art 1913-2013/A Century of light and movement in art 1913-2013, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Yayoi Kusama: Eternity of Eternal Eternity, Shizuoka Prefectural museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan (solo)
Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality, Victoria Miro, London, England
Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Obsession, Malba - Fundacion Constantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: A Dream I Dreamed, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, David Zwirner, New York, USA
2012: Drawings from the mid-50s - D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA
Yayoi Kusama, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Yayoi Kusama, Tate Modern, London, England
Yayoi Kusama, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina, Sofia, Bulgaria; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Tate Modern, London, England; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2011: Yayol Kusama: Heaven and Earth, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Yayoi Kusama, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy
Yayoi Kusama, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Yayoi Kusama's Body festival in 60's - Watari-Um, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2010: Yayoi Kusama, The Place for My Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Minimalism & Conceptualism, Jason Rulnick, New York, NY
2009: Flowers That Bloom at Midnight, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, , Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Yayoi Kusama - I Want to Live Forever - PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (solo)
Yayoi Kusama - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Yayoi Kusama - Mirrored Years - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, Australia (solo)
2008: Yayoi Kusama, Marlborough London, London, UK (solo)
Sotto Voce, Yvon Lambert, New York, NY
Yayoi Kusama, Mirrored Years, Museums Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK (solo)
The Masked Portrait: Aspects of Japanese Contemporary Art 1949-Present, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan (Solo)
2007: Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession - Dots Transformed into Love, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; WIELS, Brussel, Belgium (solo)
Infinity Nets 2006, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan (solo)
Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan, Long March Project, "798" Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China
Rose Art: Works from the Permanent Collection, The Rose Art Museum, Massachusetts
NAOSHIMA STANDARD 2, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
2006: Yayoi Kusama, Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Iwami Art Museum, Shimane, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, YAYOI in FOREVER, Forever Museum of Contemporary Art gallery, Akita, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Arndt&Partner, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Metamorphosis, Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Crimson Eye, Piece Unique, Paris, France (solo)
2005: Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Eight Places for Burning Soul, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama 60's Fashion, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: Sailing the Sea of Infinity, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Furniture by Graf, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano, Italy (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Studio Guenzani, Milano, Italy (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Partl: Print1980-1983/Painting (recent work), Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama The Place for My Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama KA!, 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Jean Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Exhibition, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
2004: KUSAMATRIX, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Nets 1959-1999, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
KUSAMATRIX, Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Colorist, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2003: Yayoi Kusama Prints & Pumpkin Ceramic Object Exhibition, Jean Art Center, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Prints, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama-Beyond the Labyrinth, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan; Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama LOVE FOREVER, Fabian & Claude Water Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Piece Unique, Paris, France (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (solo)
Paintings, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
2002: Yayoi Kusama Solitude of the Earth, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Mixed Media, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Silkscreen, Mubanso, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Masuda City Museum, Shimane, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Inoue, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Book cellar amus, Osaka, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama/Furniture, graf, Osaka, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Permanent Collection, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Dot paradise in Shangri-La, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Mubanso, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Bass Museum, Miami, FL (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Galeria DECO, Sao Paulo, Brazil (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2001: Death of an Illusion, Piece Unique, Paris, France
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy (solo)
2000: Yayoi Kusama, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Piece Unique, Paris, France (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Prints, Mubanso, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Early Drawings, from the Collection of Richard Castellane, The Art Museum, Princeton University, NJ; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, IL; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: Recent Works, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan(solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Jean Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Le consortium, Dijon, France; Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris, France; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France; KUNSTHALLE, Wien, Austria; Artsonje Museum, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea (solo)
1999: Yayoi Kusama Retrospective Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Beyond My Illusion, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan (solo)
1998: Cage Painting Women 1967-1970, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
Self Obliteration, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1997: Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work and Paintings from the New York Years, Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, DC (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Kato Kyobundo, Osaka, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Vision, The Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Prints, Gallery Olive, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Kusama's Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery East, North Fremantle, Australia (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: Repetition, Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan (solo)
1996: Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Olive, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: A Panorama of My Youth, Media of Modern Art Contemporary Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: The 1950s and 1960s, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: Ten Paintings from the '60s to the Present, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Ouka Shorin, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (Japan)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Haruka, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1995: Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Matsumoto, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: I Who Committed Suicide, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Recent Prints - Memorial Shot Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Etchings, 77 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1994: Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Matsumoto, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Atelier Kan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: My Solitary Way to Death, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Orient Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Okayama Art Gallery, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Art Wing, Kanagawa, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Chiyoda Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan (solo)
Kusama 1970s - Recent Works, Gallery Now, Toyama, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Media of Modern Art Contemporary Gallery (MOMA Contemporary), Fukuoka, Japan (solo)
1993: Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
Ham Collection: Yayoi Kusama 1952 – 1993, Gallery Ham, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Cardazzo, Venice, Italy (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallerie d'Arte del Naviglio, Venice, Italy (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, The 45th Venice Biennale, Japanese Pavillion, Venice, Italy
Yayoi Kusama, Shuyu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Now, Toyama, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Tomita, Hiroshima, Japan (solo)
Infinity of Space and Light in the 1950s and 1960s: Yayoi Kusama from the collection of Richard Castellane, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY (solo)
1992: Yayoi Kusama, Art Gallery K2, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Aries, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Ouka Shorin, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Takeuchi, Aichi, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Art Gallery K2, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Esprit-Nouveau, Okayama, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Toki, Hokkaido, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMA Contemporary), Fukuoka, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Lamia, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: Bursting Galaxies, Sogetsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Sho Art Gallery, Fukushima, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Athens, Osaka, Japan (solo)
1991: Kusama's Collage 1953-86, Nabis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Art Gallery K2, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMA Contemporary), Fukuoka, Japan (solo)
Performance Self-Obliteration Tokyo Art Expo 1991, Pre-Event, Ginza Sony Building, Tokyo, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, Tokyo Art Expo 1991, Fuji Television Gallery Booth, The Tokyo International Trade Center at Harumi, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Vinci, Gunma, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Between Heaven and Earth, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: Paintings • Prints • Objects, Oka Shorin, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Lamia, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Ashibi-sha, Saitama, Japan (solo)
1990: Yayoi Kusama, Shinon Nishiwaki Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Fine Art Hiiragi, Kagoshima, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Kyouni Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Chikugo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Kyouni Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kosai, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Center of International Contemporary Arts, New York, NY (solo)
In Context: Yayoi Kusama, Soul Burning Flashes, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1989: Yayoi Kusama: Recent Prints, Objects, Paintings, Gallery Ikeda Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, Japan (solo)
1988: Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Hakone Open Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
1987: Yayoi Kusama, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan (solo)
1986: Prints by Yayoi Kusama, Tamagawa Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Musée Municipal, Dôle, France (solo)
Infinity ¥ Explosion, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Nabis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Christian Chenau, Paris, France
1985: Performance: Flower of Basara, Kuhonbutsu Joshin-ji Temple, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Missoni Boutique at Yurakucho-Marion Seibu, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1984: Yayoi Kusama Gallery Stella, Fukouka, Japan (solo)
Kusama's Self-Obliteration, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1983: Yayoi Kusama, Tubaki Gallery, Chiba, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Supplement Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Polka Dots Obliteration, Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: 1950-1970, Internationale Galerij Ornis, The Hague, The Netherlands (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: Prints and Drawings, Gallery Do ra pe, Kobe, Japan (solo)
1982: Exhibition of Yayoi Kusama, Box Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama and Obsession, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Box Art by Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kumo, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Box Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Manu, Akita, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Orient Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy (solo)
1981: Yayoi Kusama, Central Gallery, Chiba, Japan (solo)
The Puzzle Art of Yayoi Kusama, Shibuya Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kumo, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1980: Yayoi Kusama, Toho Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)
Unknown Works by Yayoi Kusama: The Flash That Burns Grass, American Center, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama Soaring from the Dark and Bright Swamp, Nagano Tokyu Department Store, Nagano, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity and Repetition of Nets and Polka Dots, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1979: Yayoi Kusama Exhibition, Chungeki Art Salon, Matsumoto, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama: Exhibition of New Works, Inoue Fourth Floor Gallery, Matsumoto, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto Wall of Commerce and Industry Building, Nagano, Japan (solo)
1977: Yayoi Kusama; Collages, Gallery Nikko, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1976: Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Art, a Requiem for Death and Life, Osaka Formes Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)
1969: Happening, Iwaibashi Park, Tokyo, Japan
Nude Happening, Before the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan
Body Painting Happening, Bungei Shunju Company, Tokyo, Japan
Bust Out Happening, Sheepsmeadow, Central Park, New York, NY
Happening, Blue Dome discotheque, New York, NY
Grand Orgy to Awaken the Dead Happening, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Kusama Fashions Company, Establishes, New York, NY
1968: Nude performance at the discotheque, Electric Circus, New York, NY
Love in Festival, Central Park, New York, NY
Weekly Flesh-In, Body-painting stage, Nirvana Headshop, New York, NY
Naked Demonstration/Anatomic Explosion Happening, Wall Street, New York, NY
Body Painting Happening, Avanti Galleries, New York, NY
Homosexual Wedding Happening, Church of Self-Obliteration, New York, NY
Nude Happening, the Allan Burke Show, New York, NY
Naked Happenings, Fillmore East, New York, NY
Exhibition of works by Yayoi Kusama from 1963 to 1965, Galerie Mickery, Loenersloot, The Netherlands; Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, The Netherlands (solo)
Mona Lisa Happening, Kusama's Studio, New York, NY
Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Lichter, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
The Horse by Polka Dots Happening, Central Park, New York, NY
Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy
1967: Serielle Formationen, Studio Galerie, Frankfurt, West Germany
Horse Play, Happening ,Inter-Arts Festival, Washington Square Park, New York, NY
Horse Play, Self Obliteration by Kusama: An Audio-Visual-Light Performance Happening, Woodstock, NY
Kusama Tea Dancers Happening, Electric Circus, New York, NY
Body-Painting Party Happening, Cheetah Club, New York, NY
Love Room, Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, The Netherlands
Body Festival Happening, Chrysler Art Museum, Provincetown, MA
1966: Yayoi Kusama: Driving Image Show, Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy; Galerie M. E. Thelen, Essen, West Germany (solo)
Kusama's Peep Show: Endless Love Show, Castellane Gallery, New York, NY
Nova Gallery, Boston, MA
1965: Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, MA (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, The Netherlands (solo)
Floor Show, Castellane Gallery, New York, NY
1964: Kusama: Driving Image Show, Castellane Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
One Thousand Boats Show – Kusama, Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1963: Driving Image, Castellane Gallery, New York, NY
1962: Yayoi Kusama, Robert Hanamura Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1961: Recent Painting: Yayoi Kusama, Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, NY
Yayoi Kusama: Watercolors, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
1960: Yayoi Kusama, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
1959: Yayoi Kusama, Brata Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Recent Paintings by Yayoi Kusama, Nova Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
1957: Yayoi Kusama, Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
1955: Yayoi Kusama, Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Yayoi Kusama, Kyuryudo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1954: Mimatsu Shobo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Eight Japanese Women Artists, Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Shirokiya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1952: First Community Center, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan (solo)
First Community Center, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan (solo)

Public Collections

: The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Tate Modern, London, UK
: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
: Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Literature

2008: Jo Applin. Resisting Infinity, Yayoi Kusama. London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2008 (cat.)

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