GAME CHANGERS: Renegade artists defying convention
Bridget Riley,Nancy Fouts,Swoon,Tracey Emin,Yayoi Kusama
30 Jul 2021 – 17 Sep 2021
Artist
Yayoi Kusama
Responsible for some of the most Instagrammable art of our times, Kusama creates bold, graphic sculptures of pumpkins, flora and slithering unidentified creatures, as well as bewitching Infinity Mirrored Rooms, featuring repeating displays of light and colour. Her pieces have a hallucinatory quality informed by time in 1960s New York and continuing mental illness (she’s lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution since 1977): viewers in the rooms can immerse themselves in Kusama’s repetitive worlds, while her sculptures are outsized, paint box bright and decked out in polka dots.
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Artworks
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Did you know?
Kusama’s flowers and recurring dots are influenced by childhood hallunications at her parents’ plant nurseries.
Country of Birth
Japan
Auction Record
£8,465,243
Phillips, New York, 'Untitled (Nets)', 2022
Notable Collections
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Tate Modern, London, UK
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Notable Exhibitions
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Rooms, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2020
Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray For Love, David Zwirner, New York, USA, 2019
Yayoi Kusama: Sculptures, Paintings & Mirror Rooms, Victoria Miro, London, UK, 2016
Yayoi Kusama, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2012
Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958–1969, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, 1999
Represented Japan at the Venice Biennale, Japanese Pavilion, Venice, IT, 1993
Exhibitions by Yayoi Kusama
