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Yayoi Kusama Born 1929 in Matsumoto, . Lives and works in .

EDUCATION

1948-1949 Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts, Kyoto, Japan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 , Gropius Bau, Berlin [itinerary: Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Fondation Beyeler, Basel] [forthcoming] Yayoi Kusama, New York Botanical Garden, New York [forthcoming]

2019-2021 Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING, Institute of ,

2019 Yayoi Kusama: All About Love Speaks Forever, Fosun Foundation, Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE, David Zwirner, New York Yayoi Kusama: HERE, ANOTHER NIGHT COMES FROM TRILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY: Eternal Infinity, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Fireflies on the Water, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio Yayoi Kusama: My Heart is Dancing into the Universe, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas [permanent installation] Yayoi Kusama: Prints, Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai Yayoi Kusama: SPIRITS OF AGGREGATION, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands

2018 Rockaway! 2018: Narcissus Garden by Yayoi Kusama, Gateway National Recreation Area at Fort Tilden, New York [organized by MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York] Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: I Want You to Look at My Prospects for the Future: Plants and I, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM: LET’S SURVIVE TOGETHER, Wndr Museum, Chicago Yayoi Kusama: THE LONGING FOR MY LOVE ALL BEGAN FROM MY HEART, Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida Yayoi Kusama: THE MOVING MOMENT WHEN I WENT TO THE UNIVERSE, Victoria Miro, London Yayoi Kusama: With All My Love For The Tulips, I Pray Forever, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

2017-2019 Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC [itinerary: Art Museum; , Los Angeles; , Toronto; The , Ohio; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia] [catalogue]

2017 Traumata: Bourgeois / Kusama, S|2, Sotheby’s, London [two-person exhibition] [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life and Infinity Nets, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama, 101 Spring Street, Judd Foundation, New York Yayoi Kusama: Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo [exhibition publication] Yayoi Kusama: Life Is the Heart of a Rainbow, National Gallery of Singapore [itinerary: Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), Jakarta] [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul, The National Art Center, Tokyo [catalogue]

2016 Yayoi Kusama: At the End of the Universe, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsessions, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession - Alive, Seeking for Eternal Hope, The , New Canaan, Connecticut Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul Paintings, Victoria Miro, London [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden, The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut Yayoi Kusama: The obliteration room, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand Yayoi Kusama: Sculptures, Paintings & Mirror Rooms, Victoria Miro, London [catalogue]

2015 Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue published in 2016] Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Theory, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow Yayoi Kusama: The Place for My Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Prints: Part I, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Prints: Part II, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

2015-2017 Yayoi Kusama: In Infinity, Louisiana , Humlebæk, Denmark [itinerary: Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Helsinki Art Museum] [catalogue published in 2015]

2014 Yayoi Kusama: A Dream in Jeju, Bonte Museum, Seogwipo, Yayoi Kusama: The obliteration room, Children’s Art Centre, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Yayoi Kusama: Pumpkins, Victoria Miro, London [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore

2013-2015 Yayoi Kusama: A Dream I Dreamed, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea [itinerary: Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai; Seoul Arts Center; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung] [three venues published their own catalogues] Yayoi Kusama: Obsesión infinita/Infinite Obsession, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de (MALBA) - Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires [itinerary: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília; Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, ; Fundación CorpArtes, Santiago] [three catalogues published in bilingual editions: Portuguese/English in 2013 and Spanish/English in 2013 and 2014; and exhibition publication]

2013 Yayoi Kusama: I Love Kusama, Ayala Museum, Philippines Yayoi Kusama: I Who Have Arrived In Heaven, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue published in 2014] Yayoi Kusama: New Paintings and Accumulations, Victoria Miro, London Yayoi Kusama: Obsessions, Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange, Hanoi Yayoi Kusama: White Infinity Nets, Victoria Miro, London [catalogue]

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2012-2014 Yayoi Kusama: Eternity of Eternal Eternity, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan [itinerary: The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan; Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan; Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan; Oita Art Museum, Oita, Japan; The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan; Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan; Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Akita, Japan; Matsuzakaya Museum, Nagoya, Japan] [catalogue]

2012 Yayoi Kusama: Drawings from the mid-50s, D’Amelio Gallery, New York Yayoi Kusama: Fireflies on the Water, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Yayoi Kusama: METALLIC, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore Yayoi Kusama: New Paintings, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: New Paintings II, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: New Sculptures and Recent Paintings, , Beverly Hills Yayoi Kusama: New Works, Victoria Miro, London [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: A Total Vision, [organized on the occasion of the concurrent exhibition elles: from the Centre Georges Pompidou]

2011 Kusama’s Body Festival in the 60s, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane [online catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: New Paintings and Sculptures, Victoria Miro, London Yayoi Kusama, Gagosian Gallery, Rome Yayoi Kusama, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid [itinerary: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; , London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York] [each venue published its own catalogue]

2010 Yayoi Kusama: That Bloom Tomorrow, Victoria Miro, London Yayoi Kusama: Singing in Towada, Towada Arts Center, Japan Yayoi Kusama in the ’80s, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

2009 Yayoi Kusama: Flowers That Bloom at Midnight, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills Yayoi Kusama: I Want to Live Forever, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (PAC), Milan [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Outdoor Sculptures, Victoria Miro, London Yayoi Kusama: The Place for My Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gagosian Gallery, New York [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama at Fairchild, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami Yayoi Kusama Propagating Room, Six, Osaka, Japan

2008 Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, [itinerary: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand] [catalogue published in 2009] Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro, London [catalogue]

2007 Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession - Dots Transformed into Love, Haus der Kunst, Munich [itinerary: Wiels Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels; Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris] Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession - Soul of Pumpkin, Harbour City, Hong Kong Yayoi Kusama: Prints, Peter Blum Gallery, New York Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Yayoi Kusama, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro, London

2006 Yayoi Kusama: Crimson Eye, Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris

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Yayoi Kusama: Metamorfosi/Metamorphosis, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Yayoi in Forever, Forever Museum of Contemporary Art, Akita, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Arndt & Partner, Berlin Yayoi Kusama, Iwami Art Museum, Shimane, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York Yayoi Kusama, Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan

2005 Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Yayoi Kusama: Eight Places for Burning Soul, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan [catalogue Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity published in 2004] Yayoi Kusama: Furniture, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan Yayoi Kusama: Ka!, 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok Yayoi Kusama: Part l: Print 1980-1983/Painting (recent work) and Part II: Print 1994- 2005/Painting (recent work)/Object, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: The Place for My Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Sailing the Sea of Infinity, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Studio Guenzani, Milan Yayoi Kusama 60s Fashion, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMACON), Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama Seoul, Jean Art Gallery, Seoul

2004 Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [itinerary: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan] [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Kusamatrix, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo [itinerary: Art Park, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan] [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Nets 1959-1999, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMACON), Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

2003 Yayoi Kusama: Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1949 bis 2003/Works from the year 1949 to 2003, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany [itinerary: Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw] [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Beyond the Labyrinth, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan [itinerary: Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan] Yayoi Kusama: Love Forever, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zürich Yayoi Kusama: Prints, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Prints & Object, Jean Art Gallery, Seoul Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida

2002 Yayoi Kusama: Dot paradise in Shangri-La, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Furniture by graf, graf, Osaka, Japan [catalogue published in 2003] Yayoi Kusama: Mixed Media, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMACON), Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Silkscreen, Mubanso, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Solitude of the Earth, Robert Miller Gallery, New York The World of Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Inoue, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama, Book Cellar Amus, Osaka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Galeria Deco, São Paulo Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Masuda City Museum, Shimane, Japan

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Yayoi Kusama, Mubanso, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Yayoi Kusama Permanent Collection, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Japan

2001 Yayoi Kusama: Death of an Illusion, Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama, Peter Blum Gallery, New York [two-person exhibition] Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Studio Guenzani, Milan

2000-2003 Yayoi Kusama, Le Consortium, Dijon, France [itinerary: Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris; Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju-si, Korea] [two catalogues published in 2001: French/English edition and German edition]

2000 Yayoi Kusama: Early Drawings from the Collection of Richard Castellane, The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey [itinerary: Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Art Gallery of York University, Toronto; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; Munson- Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York] [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Prints, Mubanso, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris Yayoi Kusama, Jean Art Gallery, Seoul Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Serpentine Gallery, London [catalogue]

1999 The 7th Yayoi Kusama Exhibition, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Beyond My Illusion, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMACON), Fukuoka, Japan In Full Bloom: Yayoi Kusama, Years in Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Installations, Robert Miller Gallery, New York Message from Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto Municipal Museum, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Where am I?, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Crown Art Center, Taipei Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles Yayoi Kusama, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm Yayoi Kusama, Mubanso, Nagano, Japan

1998 Yayoi Kusama: Drawings, Paintings, and Works on Paper, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan Yayoi Kusama: Love Forever, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [itinerary: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; , Minneapolis, Minnesota; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo] [catalogues published in 1998 and 1999] Yayoi Kusama: Now, Robert Miller Gallery, New York [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Recent Oil Painting, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Self-Obliteration, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMACON), Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Works on paper from the 1950s, Peter Blum Gallery, New York Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris Yayoi Kusama, Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro, London Yayoi Kusama ’50-70s, Taka Ishii Gallery, Santa Monica

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1997 Kusama’s Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Vision, The Arts Club Chicago [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Prints, Gallery Olive, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work and Paintings from the New York Years, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC [exhibition brochure] Yayoi Kusama, Kato Kyobundo, Osaka, Japan Yayoi Kusama and , D’Amelio Terras, New York [two-person exhibition]

1996 Yayoi Kusama: The 1950s and 1960s, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: A Panorama of My Youth, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMACON), Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Recent Works, Robert Miller Gallery, New York [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Repetition, Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Ten Paintings from the ’60s to the Present, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Haruka, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Olive, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Ouka Shorin, Nagano, Japan

1995 Yayoi Kusama: Etchings, 77 Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: I Who Committed Suicide, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Recent Prints Memorial Shot, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Matsumoto, Japan Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, , Japan

1994 Infinity of Space and Light in the 1950s and 1960s: Yayoi Kusama from the Collection of Richard Castellane, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York [exhibition brochure] Kusama 1970s - Recent Works, Gallery Now, Toyama, Japan Yayoi Kusama: My Solitary Way to Death, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Atelier Kan Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Chiyoda Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Cardazzo, Venice Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Matsumoto, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Komagane, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMACON), Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano, Japan

1993 Ham Collection: Yayoi Kusama 1952-1993, Gallery Ham, Nagoya, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Print Work, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome Yayoi Kusama, Galleria d’Arte del Naviglio, Venice Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Now, Toyama, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Tomita, Hiroshima, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Japanese Pavilion at the 45th [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama, Shuyu Gallery, Tokyo

1992 Yayoi Kusama: Bursting Galaxies, Sogetsu Museum of Art, Tokyo [itinerary: Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan] Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Aries, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMACON), Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan

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1991 Yayoi Kusama: Between Heaven and Earth, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: 1952-83, Nabis Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Paintings·Prints·Objects, Oka Shorin, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Prints, Art Space Ashibisha, Saitama, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Athens, Osaka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMACON), Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan

1990 Yayoi Kusama, Chikugo Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kyoni, Tokyo

1989 Yayoi Kusama: Recent Prints, Objects, Paintings, Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flash, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England

1988 Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo [itinerary: Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan; Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo] [catalogue]

1987 Yayoi Kusama, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan [catalogue]

1986 Yayoi Kusama: Infinity ∞ Explosion, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama: Prints, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Christian Chenau, Paris Yayoi Kusama, Musée de beaux-arts de Calais, Calais, France [itinerary: Musée Municipal de Dole, Dole, France] [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama, Nabis Gallery, Tokyo

1984 Yayoi Kusama, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Stella, Fukuoka, Japan

1983 Yayoi Kusama: 1950-1970, Internationale Galerij Ornis, The Hague Yayoi Kusama: Encounter of Souls, Jardin de Luseine, Harajuku, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Prints and Drawings, Gallery Do ra pe, Kobe, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Supplement Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Tsubaki Gallery, Chiba, Japan

1982 Yayoi Kusama: Obsession, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo [catalogue] Yayoi Kusama, Box Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Galleria d’Arte del Naviglio, Milan [exhibition brochure] Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Manu, Akita, Japan [exhibition brochure]

1981 Yayoi Kusama, Central Gallery, Chiba, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Kiku Sui Gallery, Boston Yayoi Kusama’s Puzzle Art, Shibuya Seibu Department Store, Tokyo

1980 Yayoi Kusama: Infinity and Repetition of Nets and Polka Dots, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Self-Obliteration of Nets and Polka Dots, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Soaring from the Dark and Bright Swamp, Nagano Tokyu Department Store, Nagano, Japan Unknown Works by Yayoi Kusama: The Flash That Burns Grass, American Center, Tokyo [exhibition brochure] Yayoi Kusama, Toho Gallery, Osaka, Japan [exhibition brochure]

1979 Yayoi Kusama, Chungeki Art Salon, Matsumoto, Japan

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Yayoi Kusama, Inoue Department Store, Matsumoto, Japan

1978 Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto Municipal Hall of Commerce and Industry, Japan [exhibition brochure]

1977 Yayoi Kusama: , Gallery Nikko, Tokyo [exhibition brochure]

1976 Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Art, a Requiem for Death and Life, Formes Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1975 Yayoi Kusama: Message of Death from Hades, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo [exhibition brochure]

1971 Yayoi Kusama: Cage/Painting/Woman, Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague

1968 Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Mickery, Loenersloot, The Netherlands Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Ursula Lichter, Frankfurt

1966 Yayoi Kusama: Driving Image Show, Galleria d’Arte del Naviglio, Milan [itinerary: Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen, Germany] Yayoi Kusama: New Collection, Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts Yayoi Kusama: Peep Show/Endless Love Show, Castellane Gallery, New York

1965 Yayoi Kusama: Floor Show, Castellane Gallery, New York Yayoi Kusama, Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague

1964 Yayoi Kusama: Driving Image Show, Castellane Gallery, New York

1963 Yayoi Kusama. Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show, Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York

1962 Yayoi Kusama, Robert Hanamura Gallery, Chicago

1961 Yayoi Kusama: Recent Painting, Stephen Radich Gallery, New York Yayoi Kusama: Watercolors, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC

1960 Yayoi Kusama, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC

1959 Recent Paintings by Yayoi Kusama, Nova Gallery, Boston Yayoi Kusama, Brata Gallery, New York

1957 Yayoi Kusama, Zoë Dusanne Gallery, Seattle

1955 Yayoi Kusama, Kyuryudo Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo

1954 Yayoi Kusama, Shirokiya Department Store, Tokyo

1952 Yayoi Kusama: Recent Works, First Community Center, Matsumoto, Japan Yayoi Kusama, First Community Center, Matsumoto, Japan

SELECTED PERFORMANCES, FILMS & BY THE ARTIST

1991 Self-Obliteration in front of the Ginza Sony Building, Tokyo

1985 Flowers of Extravagance happening at Kuhonbutsu Joshin-ji Temple, Tokyo

1983 Polka Dots Obliteration happening at Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo

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1971 Self-Obliteration, First Annual New York Erotic Film Festival, New York [film screening]

1970 The Creative Imagination and the Environment: A Step into the ’70s, The New School for Social Research, New York Naked happening in Iwaibashi Park, Tokyo

1969 Body-Painting happening at Bungei Shunju Company, Tokyo Bust Out happening in , New York Grand Orgy to Awaken the Dead happening at The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1968 The Anatomic Explosion happening in front of the George Washington statue across from the New York Stock Exchange; Statue of Liberty; Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park; United Nations Building; United Federation of Teachers; Board of Elections, New York Anti-War happening on Wall Street and the , New York Body-Painting happening at Avanti Galleries, New York Homosexual Wedding happening on Church Street, New York Love in Festival happening in Central Park, New York Naked happening at , New York Nude happening on the Alan Burke television show, New York Self-Obliteration, Fourth International Experimental Film Competition, [film screening] Self-Obliteration, Gymnasium, Palm Gardens, and Blue Dome, New York [film screening] Self-Obliteration by Dots performance in Yayoi Kusama’s studio, New York

1967 Body Festival happening in Tompkins Square Park and Washington Square Park, New York [in collaboration with Minoru Araki] Body-Painting happening at the Cheetah Club, New York Horse Play happening in Woodstock, New York Kusama Tea Dancers happening at Electric Circus, New York Love Room happening at Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague Self-Obliteration: An Audio-Visual-Light Performance, Black Gate Theater, New York and Woodstock, New York

MONOGRAPHS & SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

2019 Yayoi Kusama: HERE, ANOTHER NIGHT COMES FROM TRILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY: Eternal Infinity, Yayoi Kusama Foundation, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

2018 Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love. Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha Co. LTD., Japan (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama. Text by Jenni Sorkin. David Zwirner Books, New York (exh. cat.)

2017 Traumata: Bourgeois / Kusama. Texts by Jo Applin, Emma Baker, and Juliet Mitchell. S|2, Sotheby’s, London (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama. Interview with the artist by . Phaidon, London Yayoi Kusama: Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art. Texts by Yayoi Kusama and Akira Tatehata. Yayoi Kusama Foundation, Tokyo (exh. pub.) Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors. Edited by Mika Yoshitake. Texts by Melissa Chiu, Alexander Dumbadze, Gloria Sutton, and Miwako Tezuka. Prestel, New York (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Life Is the Heart of a Rainbow. Texts by Reuben Keehan and Russell Storer. National Gallery of Singapore (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul. Texts by Yayoi Kusama, Yusuke Minami, and Akira Tatehata. The National Art Center, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

2016 Yayoi Kusama. Texts by Martin Coomer et al. , London (exh. cat.)

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Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love. Texts by Yayoi Kusama and Akira Tatehata. David Zwirner Books, New York (exh. cat.)

2015 Yayoi Kusama: In Infinity. Texts by Jo Applin, Yayoi Kusama, Marie Laurberg, and Stefan Würrer. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular. Text by Midori Yamamura. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2014 Yayoi Kusama: A Dream I Dreamed. Texts by Yayoi Kusama and Park Sohyeon. Seoul Arts Center (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: I Who Have Arrived In Heaven. Text by Akira Tatehata. Poem by Yayoi Kusama. David Zwirner, New York (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Obsesión infinita/Infinite Obsession. Texts by Philip Larratt-Smith and Frances Morris. Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (exh. cat.) [Spanish/English edition] Yayoi Kusama: Obsesión infinita/Infinite Obsession. Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (exh. pub.) Yayoi Kusama: Pumpkins. Text by Gilda Williams. Victoria Miro, London (exh. cat.)

2013 Yayoi Kusama: A Dream I Dreamed. Texts by Ban Ejung, Yayoi Kusama, Ha Kyehoon, Lee Minjung, and Kang Seyun. Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: A Dream I Dreamed. Texts by Kim Sunhee and Wang Weiwei. Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Locus of the Avant-Garde. Text by Sayaka Sonoda. The Shinano Mainichi Shimbun, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Obsesión infinita/Infinite Obsession. Texts by Philip Larratt-Smith and Frances Morris. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) - Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires (exh. cat.) [Spanish/English edition] Yayoi Kusama: Obsessão infinita/Infinite Obsession. Texts by Philip Larratt-Smith and Frances Morris. Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (exh. cat.) [Portuguese/English edition] Yayoi Kusama: Prints 1979-2013. Text by Yayoi Kusama. Abe Publishing, Tokyo [revised and expanded edition; originally published in 2011] Yayoi Kusama: White Infinity Nets. Text by Rachel Taylor. Victoria Miro, London (exh. cat.)

2012 Yayoi Kusama. Edited by Frances Morris. Texts by Jo Applin, Juliet Mitchell, Mignon Nixon, Rachel Taylor, and Midori Yamamura. Tate Publishing, London and Distributed Art Publishers, New York (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama. Edited by Louise Neri and Takaya Goto. Texts by Leslie Camhi, RoseLee Goldberg, Laura Hoptman, Chris Kraus, Arthur Lubow, Kevin McGarry, Louise Neri, Akira Tatehata, Alison Wender, and Oliver Zahm. Rizzoli, New York Yayoi Kusama. Text by Jo Applin. Interview with the artist by Glenn Scott Wright. Victoria Miro, London (exh. cat.) [two volumes] Yayoi Kusama: Eternity of Eternal Eternity. Texts by Yayoi Kusama, Akira Shibutami, Akira Tatehata, and Masahiro Yasugi. The Asahi Shimbun, Osaka, Japan (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room - Phalli’s Field. Text by Jo Applin. Afterall Books, London

2011 We Love Yayoi Kusama. Texts by Naoko Aono, Hisashi Ikai, Takashi Shinkawa, Yukiko Takahashi, Hideko Kawachi, Reiko Kasai, Takashi Hata, Sayoko Nakahara, and Kiyomi Yui. Hankyu Communications, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama. Texts by Chantal Béret, Laura Hoptman, Gérard Wajcman, Midori Yoshimoto, and . Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama. Edited by Frances Morris. Texts by Jo Applin, Juliet Mitchell, Mignon Nixon, Rachel Taylor, and Midori Yamamura. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, TF Editores, Madrid, and Tate Publishing, London (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama’s Body Festival in the 60s. Access, Tokyo (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

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(exh. cat.) [online] Yayoi Kusama: Prints 1979-2011. Text by Yayoi Kusama. Abe Publishing, Tokyo [revised and expanded edition; originally published in 2004]

2009 Yayoi Kusama. Edited by Louise Neri. Texts by Louise Neri, Robert Nickas, and Midori Yamamura. Gagosian Gallery, New York (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: I Want to Live Forever. Texts by Laura Hoptman, Louise Neri, Robert Nickas, and Akira Tatehata. Padiglione d’Arte Conemporanea (PAC), Milan (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years. Texts by Diedrich Diederichsen, Franck Gautherot, Seungduk Kim, Lily van der Stokker, and Midori Yamamura. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Les presses du réel, Dijon, France (exh. cat.)

2008 Yayoi Kusama. Texts by Jo Applin and Glenn Scott Wright. Victoria Miro, London (exh. cat.) [second edition published as two-volume catalogue in 2012]

2007 Yayoi Kusama: I Like Myself. Text by Yayoi Kusama. Infas Books, Tokyo

2006 Yayoi Kusama: Metamorfosi/Metamorphosis. Text by Angela Vettese. Interview with the artist by Milovan Farronato. Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy (exh. cat.)

2004 Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity. Text by Yayoi Kusama. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Kusamatrix. Texts by Takashi Azumaya, David Elliott, Yayoi Kusama, and Fumio Nanjo. Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Prints 1979-2004. Text by Yayoi Kusama. Abe Publishing, Tokyo

2003 Yayoi Kusama: Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1949 bis 2003/Works from the year 1949 to 2003. Text by Jan Verwoert. Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Furniture by graf. Texts by Eizo Okada, Noi Sawaragi, Atsushi Tanigawa, and Rika Yamashita. Interview with the artist by Hideki Toyoshima and Shigeki Hattori. Seigensha Art Publishing, Kyoto, Japan (exh. cat.)

2002 Yayoi Kusama. Text by Mark Ormond. Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Dot paradise in Shangri-La. Texts by Yayoi Kusama, Hiroyuki Miyazono, and Akira Tatehata. Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan (exh. cat.)

2001 Yayoi Kusama. Texts by Xavier Douroux, Franck Gautherot, Robert Nickas, and Vincent Pécoil. Interview with the artist by Seung-duk Kim. Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (exh. cat.) [German edition] Yayoi Kusama. Texts by Xavier Douroux, Franck Gautherot, Robert Nickas, and Vincent Pécoil. Interview with the artist by Seung-duk Kim. Les presses du réel, Dijon, France (exh. cat.) [French/English edition]

2000 Yayoi Kusama. Edited by Lisa G. Corrin. Text by Laura Hoptman. Serpentine Gallery, London (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama. Texts by Laura Hoptman, Takuboku Ishikawa, Udo Kultermann, and Yayoi Kusama. Interviews with the artist by Gordon Brown and Akira Tatehata. , London Yayoi Kusama: Early Drawings from the Collection of Richard Castellane. Texts by Richard Castellane and . Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama (exh. cat.)

1999 Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968 and In Full Bloom: Yayoi Kusama, Years in Japan. Texts by Laura Hoptman, Alexandra Munroe, Naoko Seki, Akira Tatehata, and Lynn Zelevansky. Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.) [two volumes]

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1998 Yayoi Kusama: Love Forever. Edited by Thomas Frick. Texts by Laura Hoptman, Julie Joyce, Kristine C. Kuramitsu, Alexandra Munroe, Akira Tatehata, and Lynn Zelevansky. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Now. Interview with the artist by Damien Hirst. Robert Miller Gallery, New York (exh. cat.)

1997 Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Vision. Text by Judith Russi Kirshner. The Arts Club Chicago (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work and Paintings from the New York Years. Text by Yayoi Kusama. Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC (exh. bro.)

1996 Yayoi Kusama: The 1950s and 1960s. Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Recent Works. Text by Yayoi Kusama. Robert Miller Gallery, New York (exh. cat.)

1994 Infinity of Space and Light in the 1950s and 1960s: Yayoi Kusama from the Collection of Richard Castellane. Text by Richard Castellane. Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York (exh. bro.)

1993 Yayoi Kusama: Giappone - XLV Biennale di Venezia/Japanese Pavilion - the 45th Venice Biennale. Text by Akira Tatehata. The Japan Foundation, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

1992 Yayoi Kusama: Print Works. Texts by Akira Asada, Yusuke Nakahara, Yayoi Kusama, and Ryu Murakami. Abe Publishing, Tokyo

1991 Yayoi Kusama: Between Heaven and Earth. Text by Alexandra Munroe. Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

1989 Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective. Text by Alexandra Munroe. Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York (exh. cat.)

1988 Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes. Text by Yayoi Kusama. Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

1987 Yayoi Kusama. Texts by Toshiaki Minemura, Junichi Nakajima, and Shinichi Nakazawa. Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan (exh. cat.)

1986 Infinity ∞ Explosion. Texts by Félix Guattari and Toshiaki Minemura. Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama. Texts by Félix Guattari, François Julien, Yayoi Kusama, Patrick Le Nouëne, and Pierre Restany. Musée de beaux-arts de Calais, Calais, France (exh. cat.) Yayoi Kusama: Driving Image. Text by Yayoi Kusama. PARCO Shuppan, Tokyo

1984 Yayoi Kusama. Texts by Yūsuke Nakahara and Pierre Restany. Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

1982 Yayoi Kusama. Text by Masatoshi Tamaki. Galleria d’Arte del Naviglio, Milan (exh. bro.) Yayoi Kusama. Text by Yayoi Kusama. Gallery Manu, Akita, Japan (exh. bro.) Yayoi Kusama: Obsession. Texts by Gordon Brown, Udo Kultermann, and Yusuke Nakahara. Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

1980 Unknown Works by Yayoi Kusama: The Flash That Burns Grass. Text by Yayoi Kusama. American Center, Tokyo (exh. bro.) Yayoi Kusama. Text by Hidemoto Takahashi. Toho Gallery, Osaka, Japan (exh. bro.)

1978 Yayoi Kusama. Matsumoto Municipal Hall of Commerce and Industry, Matsumoto, Japan (exh.

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1977 Yayoi Kusama: Collages. Text by Masatoshi Tamaki. Gallery Nikko, Tokyo (exh. bro.)

1975 Yayoi Kusama: Message of Death from Hades. Texts by Yūsuke Nakahara and Yoshito Tokuda. Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo (exh. bro.)

SELECTED BOOKS BY THE ARTIST

2013 Hi, Konnichiwa. Kodansha, New York

2012 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Text by Lewis Carroll. Penguin Group, New York Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago [English; third edition]

2011 Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama. Tate Publishing, London [English; second edition]

2005 Manhattan Suicide Addict. Les presses du réel, Dijon, France [third edition]

2002 Infinity Nets. Sakuhinshu, Tokyo [Japanese; first edition]

1999 The Hustlers Grotto of Christopher Street. Crown Publishing, Taipei [third edition] New York ’69. Sakuhinshu, Tokyo

1998 Poems: Violet Obsession. Wandering Mind Books, Berkeley, California Three Novelas: Hustlers Grotto. Wandering Mind Books, Berkeley, California Violet Obsession. Sakuhinshu, Tokyo

1994 Yayoi Kusama: The Madhouse of Ants. Jiritsu Shobo, Tokyo

1993 The New York Story. Jiritsu Shobo, Tokyo

1992 Lost in Swampland. Jiritsu Shobo, Tokyo

1991 The Foxgloves of Central Park. Jiritsu Shobo, Tokyo

1990 Angels in Cape Cod. Jiritsu Shobo, Tokyo

1989 Aching Chandelier. Peyotoru kobo, Tokyo Double Suicide at Sakuragazuka. Jiritsu Shobo, Tokyo The Hustlers Grotto of Christopher Street. Jiritsu Shobo, Tokyo [second edition] Poetical Works: Distressed Like This. Jiritsu Shobo, Tokyo

1988 Between Heaven and Earth. Jiritsu Shobo, Tokyo Woodstock Phallus Cutter. Peyotoru kobo, Tokyo

1985 The Burning of St. Mark’s Church. PARCO Shuppan, Tokyo

1984 Manhattan Suicide Addict. Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo [second edition]

1983 The Hustlers Grotto of Christopher Street. Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo [first edition]

1978 Manhattan Suicide Addict. Kosakusha, Tokyo [first edition]

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1977 A Book of Poems and Paintings. Japan Edition Art, Tokyo

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Akron Art Museum, Ohio Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Art Institute of Chicago The Benesse Art Site, Naoshima, Japan , The University of Texas, Austin The Broad, Los Angeles Carnegie Museum of Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea Des Moines Art Center, Iowa Detroit Institute of Arts Fondazione Mudima, Milan Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan , New York University Art Collection Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Komagane, Japan Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo Moderna Museet, Stockholm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano, Japan Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan Oita Art Museum, Oita, Japan Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan

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Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Sammlung Goetz, Munich Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka City, Japan Sogetsu Foundation, Tokyo Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York Taipei Fine Arts Museum Tate Gallery, London Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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