Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano district, Japan. She lives and works in Tokyo

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2016
Yayoi Kusama, Monochrome, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama, In Infinity, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Victoria Miro, London
2015
Yayoi Kusama, In Infinity, Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art, Copenaghen
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Theory, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Yayoi Kusama. Obsession Inifinita (Infinite Obsession), Fundacion CorpArtes, Santiago, Chili
Yayoi Kusama: A Dream I Dreamed, Kaohsiung museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (travels to National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung and to National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi)
2014
Logical Emotion, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (travels to Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland)
Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Obsession, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Pumpkins, Victoria Miro, London
A Dream I dreamed, Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul
Yayoi Kusama. Obsession Infinita(Infinite obsession), Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia
Wonderful my Art, Kawagichiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
2013

Yayoi Kusama Eternity of Eternal Eternity, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
2012
Yayoi Kusama, Eternity of Eternal Eternity, The National Museum of Osaka
Yayoi Kusama, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Yayoi Kusama – New Works, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Yayoi Kusama, Tate Modern, London
2011
Yayoi Kusama, Gagosian, Roma
2010
Yayoi Kusama, Outdoor Sculptures, Victoria Miro, London
Yayoi Kusama in 80′s, OTA Fine Arts, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama Singing in Towada, Arts Towada Grand Opening Memorial Exhibition, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
2009
Yayoi Kusama, Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York
Yayoi Kusama, Flowers That Bloom at Midnight, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
Yayoi Kusama: Outdoor Sculptures, Victoria Miro, London
Yayoi Kusama, Propagating Room, Six Osaka, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, The Place for my Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of art, Nggano Japan
Yayoi Kusama, I want to live forever, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano
Yayoi Kusama,Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami
2008
Yayoi Kusama,  Victoria Miro Gallery, London, U.K.
Yayoi Kusama, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Yayoi Kusama Dots Obsession, la Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
2007
Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, U.K.
Dots Obsession – Soul of Pumpkin, HARBOUR CITY, Hong Kong, China
Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession – Dots Transformed into Love, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, / WIELS, Brussel, Belgium
2006
Yayoi Kusama, Iwami Art Museum, Shimane
Yayoi in Forever, Forever Museum of Contemporary Art gallery, Akita
Yayoi Kusama, Arndt&Partner, Berlin,Germany
Yayoi Kusama Metamorphosis, Galleria Civica Modena, Italy
Crimson Eye, Piece Unique, Paris, France
Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York,U.S.A.
2005
Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Yayoi Kusama, Bankamura Gallery, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama: Eight Places for Burning Soul, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Yayoi Kusama, Studio Guenzani, Milano
Yayoi Kusama: Sailing the Sea of Infinity, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Yayoi Kusama The Place for my Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
2004
Kusamatrix, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama Nets 1959-1999”, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Kusamatrix, Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2003
Yayoi Kusama Prints; Pumpkin Ceramic Object Exhibition,  Jean Art Center, Seoul
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan
Yayoi Kusama – Beyond the Labyrinth, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
Yayoi Kusama Prints, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Kusama Yayoi Love Forever, Fabian & Claude Water Galerie, Zurich
Yayoi Kusama, J. Johnson Gallery, Florida
Yayoi Kusama, Piece Unique, Paris
Yayoi Kusama, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
2002
Yayoi Kusama: Solitude of the Earth, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano
Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Yayoi Kusama, Bass Museum, Miami
2001
Death of an Illusion, Piece Unique, Paris
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Giappone
Yayoi Kusama, Prints, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
Louise Bourgeois/Yayoi Kusama: Works from 1942 to 2000, Peter Blum Gallery, New York Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama, Studio Guenzani, Milano
2000
Yayoi Kusama, Serpentine Gallery, Londra
Yayoi Kusama, Piece Unique, Parigi
Yayoi Kusama, Prints, Mubanso, Nagano
Yayoi Kusama Silkscreen-Lame, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Giappone
Recent Works”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama, ZA Gallery, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama: Prints, Collage, Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama, Jean Gallery, Seoul, Corea
Yayoi Kusama, Le Consortium, Digione (mostra itinerante), Maison de la culture du
Japon, Paris (2001); Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense (2001); Les Abbatoirs, Tolosa. (2001),  Kunsthalle Wien, Wien (2002);  Artsonje Center, Seoul (2003); Artsonje Museum, Gyeongsangbuk-do (2003)
Pumpkins, Oka-shorin, Nagano
1999
Beyond my Illusion, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Giappone
The 7th Yayoi Kusama Exhibition”, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama Prints, Galerie 412, Tokyo
Gallery NOW, Toyama, Giappone
Yayoi Kusama, Jears in Japan”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama, Crown Art Center, Taipei
Where am I?, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Gallery Paris, Yokohama, Giappone
Message from Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto Municipal Museum, Nagano, Giappone
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Giappone
Yayoi Kusama, Mubanso, Nagano, Giappone
Yayoi Kusama Screenprints-Pumpkin 1992-1993-1998, ZA Gallery, Tokyo
1998
Yayoi Kusama, Prints, Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo
Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama 1958-1968, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA
Etching Gallery Now, Toyama, Giappone
Self Obliteration, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Giappone
Yayoi Kusama, Prints, Gallery Goto, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama ‘50-’70, Taka Ishii Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Yayoi Kusama Works from the ‘50, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Yayoi Kusama, Recent Oil Painting, Ota Fine Art, Tokyo
Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama 1958-1968, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Nagano, Giappone
Yayoi Kusama, Prints, Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo
1997
Yayoi Kusama, Baumgartner Galleries Inc., New York
Yayoi Kusama, Kato Kyobundo, Osaka, Giappone
Yayoi Kusama, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
Yayoi Kusama-Prints, Gallery Olive, Tokyo
Kusama’s Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1996
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Olive, Tokyo,
A Panorama of my Youth, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Giappone
Yayoi Kusama: 10 Paintings from 60’s to the Present, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama: The 1950s and 1960s, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Yayoi Kusama, Ouka Shorin, Nagano, Giappone
Recent Works, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery HARUKA, Tokyo
Repetition, Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Giappone
Photo Collage Repetitive Vision, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015
Logical Emotion, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle, Halle, Germany
2014
ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
SHE: Picturing women at the turnof the 21st Century, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Seeing Through Light: Selections from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
2013
Wonderful my Art, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi
Flowers, Towada Art Center, Amori, Japan
Roppongi Hills and mori Art Museum 10th Anniversary Exhibition LOVE. All you need is love from Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Wonderful My Art, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi
2012
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow
2011
2011 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
2010
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
17th Biennale of Sidney: 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
Garden of painting, Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2009
Twist and Shout: Contemporary Art from Japan, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand
Walking in my mind, The Hayward Gallery, London
Big in Japan, The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2008
Art of our Time, Praemium Imperiale 20, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama, Steven Parrino, Anselm Reyle, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Japan! Culture + Hyper Culture, The kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
2007
Beautiful New World:Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan, Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2006
Collage and Photomontage, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Singapore biennale
ZERO.International Avant-Garde of the 50’s and 60’s, Museum kunst palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Line and Surface Works on Paper, Peter Blum Gallery, NY

2005
Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Chikaku Time and Memory in Japan, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Summer of Love, Art of the Psychedelic Era, TATE Liverpool/Schirm Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Kiss the Frog! The Art of Transformation, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo
Homestyle, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
2004
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 Weisman Art Foundation, The New Orleans
Museum of Art, Louisiana/ Bakersfield Museum of Art, California
Maestros in early period, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Japanese Contemporary Art Performance “EUANAIKA! YES FUTURE! LE JAPON POST XX SIECLE”, Collection Lambert en Avignon, France
Museum Means: Continuità and Change in Art, 1880 to the Present, Highlights from the Museum of Modern Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2003
Primary Matters: The Minimalist Sensibility 1959 to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art
Inaugural Exhibition HAPPINESS, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
C’est arrivè demain, VII Biennale de Lyon, Lyon
2002
Loud and Clear, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
The  Growth of the Museum Collection: 1952-2002, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Attitude 2002, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Century City, Tate Modern, London
2001
“Century City”, Tate Modern, Londra
“Eternal White”, The Japan Foundation, Roma
“Les Annees Pop”, Centre Pompidou, Paris
“Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to now”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Global Visions – Art after 1980 from the Museum Collections”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel”, Victoria Miro Gallery, Londra
“Le Tribù dell’Arte”, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma, a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva
“International Triennale of Contemporary Art”, Yokohama 2001,
Pacifico Yokohama Convention Hall, Red Brick Warehouse No. 1
“Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent  Collection”, Hara Museum,
Gunma, Giappone
“Silver”, Leo Castelli, New York
2000
“Vacant Lot”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Giappone
“Permanent Collection”, Nigata City Art Museum, Giappone
“Work on Paper Exhibition”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
“Group Exhibition”, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
“Japanese Art in the 20th Century”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“Cultural Ties”, Jariwara West Zone Gallery, Londra
“Hyper Mental”, Kunsthaus, Zurigo
1999
“Art Jungle”, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Giappone
“Art from Japan”, Studio Guenzani, Milano
“The permanent exhibition”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
“Out of Action, 1949-1979, Between Performance and Object”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset”, The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo
“The Balloon Art Festival”, Sizuoka Convention & Arts Center, Giappone
“Yayoi Kusama and Andy Warhol”, Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo
1998    
“Tensions”, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
“Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation”, MIT List Visual Art Center, Massachusetts
“1998 Taipei Biennial: Site of Desire”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
“Now and Forever, Part 1”, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“wakuwaku! Dokidoki! Summer Museum”, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Giappone
“Towards another Normality”, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Giappone
1997
“The Maximal Sizties”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Japan Today”, MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
“Contemporary Art: How Can They Possibly Understand It”, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
“Floting Images of Woman in Art History”, Tochigi Prefectual Museum of Fine Art,Tochigi, Giappone
“Group Exhibition”, Bankamura Gallery, Tokyo
1996
“With Drawing”, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York
“1964: A Turning Point in Japanese Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“Collection in Focus: Selected Drawings”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“Exhibition of 50 Contemporary Japanese Artists”, Nabio Museum of Art, Osaka, Giappone
“A Panorama of my Youth”, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Giappone
“Inside of Works, Outside of Works”, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
“Art of Postwar: 1960s Avant-Garde”, Kurashiki Municipal Art Museum, Okayama, Giappone
“Form Beyond Forms: 16 Abstract Paintings in Japan”, Fukushima Prefectual Museum, JP
“New Installations”, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
“Exhibition of Portraits”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo