YAYOI KUSAMA
Born 1929 in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-ken, Japan Works in Tokyo, Japan
Education
1957-58 Art Students' League, New York, USA 1948-49 Arts and Crafts School, Kyoto, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Yayoi Kusama, New York Botanical Gardens, New York, USA Yayoi Kusama, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (2021-2022) Yayoi Kusama: Recent Paintings, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore, Singapore Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Rooms, Tate Modern, London, UK
2020 Yayoi Kusama: Recent Paintings, Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai, China The Vision of Fantasy That We Have Never Seen Is This Splendor, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2020-2021) Narcissus Garden, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark Narcissus Garden, The Momentary, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, Arkansas, USA Narcissus Garden, Rubell Museum, Miami, USA (2020-2021) Yayoi Kusama, Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina, USA Spirits of Aggregation, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo, Japan One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape called Love, Muciaccia Gallery, New York, USA Yellow Pumpkin, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
2019 Love is Calling, ICA Boston, Boston, USA Yayoi Kusama: Fireflies on the Water, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA (2019-2020) Yayoi Kusama, David Zwirner, New York, USA Yayoi Kusama: Where the Lights in My Heart Go, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, Colorado, USA Yayoi Kusama: Love is Calling, ICA Boston, Boston, USA Yayoi Kusama: Where the Lights in My Heart Go | Narcissus Garden, MoCA Westport Art Centre, Westport, CT, USA Infinitely Kusama, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, USA Here, Another Night Comes From Trillions of Light Years Away: Eternal Infinity, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo, Japan Infinity Mirrored Room, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Yayoi Kusama, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands Yayoi Kusama: All About Love Speaks Forever, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China Yayoi Kusama: Prints, Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai, China Infinity Mirrored Room―My Heart is Dancing into the Universe, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville AR, USA The Souls of the Assembly, Yayoi Kusama Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Everyday I Pray for Love, David Zwirner, New York, USA
2018 I Want You to Look at my Prospects for the Future: Plants and I, Yayoi Kusama Museum Tokyo, Japan (2018-2019) Yayoi Kusama: The Moving Moment When I Went to the Universe, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Language of Flowers, Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taichung City, Taiwan Yayoi Kusama: The Longing For My Love All Began From My Heart, Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai, China (2018-2019) Hymn of Life, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway Where the Lights in My Heart Go, De Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, USA Yayoi Kusama: My Love for you all Start from my Heart, Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai, China Rockaway! 2018: Narcissus Garden by Yayoi Kusama, Gateway National Recreation Area at Fort Tilden, New York, USA [organized by MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, NY, USA Infinity Mirrors, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, travelling to; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, Museum Macan, Jakarta, Indonesia
2017 Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, Hirshhorn, Washington, DC, USA (2017); travelling to Seattle Art Museum (2017); The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2017 – 2018) Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore (2017); travelling to Queensland Art Gallery- Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2017 – 2018) Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: The obliteration room, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Yayoi Kusama - Festival of Life, David Zwirner, New York, USA Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA Yayoi Kusama: Colour Song, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore, Singapore The best quality of Yayoi Kusama artworks, Art glorieux, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Whitestone Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, 101 Spring Street, Judd Foundation, New York, USA Yayoi Kusama: Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Yayoi Kusama: Dot Obsessions, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2016 – 2017) Yayoi Kusama – Prints, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore, Singapore Yayoi Kusama – Monochrome, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: The obliteration room, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand Kusama: At the End of the Universe, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA Yayoi Kusama: Sculptures, Paintings & Mirror Rooms, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul Paintings, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden, The Glass House, New Canaan, CT, USA Yayoi Kusama: Paintings, Sculptures, & Works on Paper, James Goodman Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2015 Yayoi Kusama: In Infinity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; travelling to Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Helsinki Art Museum, Finland (2015 – 2017) Yayoi Kusama: The Place for My Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan (2015-2016) Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Theory, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Yayoi Kusama, Prints: Part I, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Prints: Part II, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France Yayoi Kusama - Ladder To Heaven, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama - Collages: Wings in the Net Forest, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama – Dots, Obsession Centre d'Art le LAIT, Albi, France Yayoi Kusama, Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yayoi Kusama - Obsesión infinita, CorpArtes 660, Santiago, Chile Yayoi Kusama - A Dream I Dreamed, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2014 Kusama Yayoi: A Dream In Jesu, Bonte Museum, Jeju, Korea (2014-2015) Yayoi Kusama, OTA Fine Arts Singapore, Singapore (2014-2015) Yayoi Kusama: Bronze Pumpkins, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Yayoi Kusama - The obliteration room, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD, Australia Yayoi Kusama, Whitestone Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama - Obsesión Infinita, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico Yayoi Kusama, Osessao infinita, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil Yayoi Kusama - Eternity Of Eternal Eternity, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto (CAMK), Kumamoto, Japan Yayoi Kusama, SILVERLENS, Makati City, Philippines
2013 Yayoi Kusama: A Dream I Dreamed, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea; travelling to Shanghai MOCA, Shanghai, China; Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2013-2015) Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Obsession, Malba – Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires; travelling to Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Mexico City, Mexico; Fundacion Corp Group Centro Cultural, Santiago, Chile (2013-2015) Yayoi Kusama, New Paintings and Accumulations, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Yayoi Kusama: White Infinity Nets, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK I Love Kusama, Ayala Museum, Philippines Yayoi Kusama: I Who Have Arrived in Heaven, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama: Obsessions, Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange, Hanoi, Vietnam Yayoi Kusama: Wonderful My Art, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia Yayoi Kusama, Yorozu Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Yayoi Kusama – Dots Obsession, Sørlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand, Norway Yayoi Kusama - I Love Myself Too Much!!, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Karuizawa, Japan Yayoi Kusama - Dear Pumpkin Paradise!, Takeda Art Co., Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Whitestone Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuk, Japan
2012 Yayoi Kusama: Eternity of Eternal Eternity, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan; Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan; Shizuoka 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 (2014) Yayoi Kusama: New Paintings, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Yayoi Kusama: Drawings from the mid-50s, D’Amelio Gallery, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama: Fireflies on the Water, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Yayoi Kusama: Metallic, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore, Singapore Yayoi Kusama: New Paintings II, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: New Paintings, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: New Sculptures and Recent Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, USA Yayoi Kusama: A Total Vision, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA Yayoi Kusama: Hong Kong Blooms in my Mind, Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong, Honk Kong Yayoi Kusama, Whitestone Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama - Love Forever, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore, Singapore Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Mathieu, Lyon, France Yayoi Kusama - Infinity Dots, Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Yayoi Kusama, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Karuizawa, Japan Yayoi Kusama - Etching Works, Jiro Miura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Infinity in the Universe of..., Opera Gallery, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yayoi Kusama, Tate Modern, London, UK Yayoi Kusama, National Museum of Art Osaka (NMAO), Osaka, Japan
2011 Yayoi Kusama, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; travelled to Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Tate Modern, London, UK; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA (2011-12) Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia Yayoi Kusama: Kusama’s Body Festival in the ’60s, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: New Paintings & Sculptures, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Yayoi Kusama, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy Yayoi Kusama, M Art Center, Shanghai, China Yayoi Kusama: Heaven and Earth, Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2010 Yayoi Kusama: Singing in Towada, Towado Arts Center, Aomori, Japan Yayoi Kusama: I Want to Live Forever, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy Yayoi Kusama, Takeda Art Co., Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Decades, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Mayfair, London, UK Yayoi Kusama in '80s, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Yayoi Kusama at Fairchild, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL, USA Yayoi Kusama I want to live forever, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy Yayoi Kusama - The Place for My Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama Propagating room, Six, Osaka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Mirrored Years, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand Yayoi Kusama: Outdoor Sculptures, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Yayoi Kusama: Flowers that Bloom at Midnight, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA Yayoi Kusama, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama, Mirrored Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2008 Yayoi Kusama, Jil D’ Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (2008-2009) Yayoi Kusama, Mirrored Years, Museums Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession, la Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
Yayoi Kusama, Le Spot, Le Havre, France Yayoi Kusama, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK Yayoi Kusama, Johyun Gallery, Busan, South Korea Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo, Japan Creative Energy, Galerie PICI, Seoul, South Korea Yayoi Kusama, Artlink, Seoul, South Korea Dot with the Pumpkin, Gallery Micah, Seoul, South Korea Avenuel, Gallery Road to the Museum, Seoul, South Korea Yayoi Kusama - Pumpkin Forever, FMOCA - Forever Museum of Contemporary Art, Akita City, Japan
2007 Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession - Dots Transformed into Love, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, travelled to WIELS, Brussels, Belgium; Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France Yayoi Kusama, Noda Contemporary, Nagoya, Japan Gallery Collection-Yayoi Kusama Monochrome Malerei, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama : Prints from 1982 to 2004, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama, Le Consortium, Dijon, France Yayoi Kusama, Takefloor 404 & 502, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama : From Here to Infinity, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama : Dots Obsession - Soul of Pumpkin, Harbour City, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2006 Yayoi Kusama, Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Iwami Art Museum, Shimane, Japan Yayoi Kusama solo exhibition, YAYOI in FOREVER, Forever Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery, Akita, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Arndt&Partner, Berlin, Germany Yayoi Kusama Metamorphosis, Galleria Civica Modena, Modena, Italy Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA Crimson Eye, Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France Yayoi Kusama - Painting,collages And Prints, Gallery Toki No Wasuremono, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Collection - Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan Yayoi Kusama Exhibition, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Eight Places for Burning Soul, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan 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, Milan, Italy Yayoi Kusama, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy Yayoi Kusama Part l: Print 1980-1983/Painting (recent work), Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama Part ll: Print 1994-2005/Painting (recent work)/Objet, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: The Place for My Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusana Ka!, 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand Yayoi Kusama Seoul, Jean Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea Yayoi Kusama, studio J, Osaka, Japan Yayoi Kusama - Monochrome Malerei, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Early Print Works Of Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Toki No Wasuremono, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2004 Kusamatrix, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Nets 1959-1999, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Kusamatrix, Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama Colorist, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, NMWA The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama, studio J, Osaka, Japan
2003 Yayoi Kusama Prints & Pumpkin Ceramic Object Exhibition, Jean Art Center, Seoul, Korea Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama Prints, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama-Beyond the Labyrinth, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan / Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan Kusama Yayoi Love Forever, Fabian & Claude Water Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland Yayoi Kusama, J. Johnson Gallery, Florida, FL, USA Yayoi Kusama, Piece Unique, Paris, France Yayoi Kusama, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany Yayoi Kusama, Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea Yayoi Kusama, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea Perspectives: Yayoi Kusama, Freer and Sackler Galleries - The Smithsonian's Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC, USA
2002 Yayoi Kusama Solitude of the Earth, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama Mixed Media, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Yayoi Kusama Silkscreen, Mubanso, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Masuda City Museum, Shimane, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Inoue, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Book cellar amus, Osaka, Japan Yayoi Kusama/Furniture, graf, Osaka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama Permanent Collection, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Dot paradise in Shangri-La, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Mubanso, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL, USA Yayoi Kusama, Galeria DECO, Sao Paulo, Brazil Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama, Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
2001 Death of an Illusion, Piece Unique, Paris, France Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy Yayoi Kusama: Early Drawings from the Collection of Richard Castellane, Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), Indianapolis, IN, USA
Yayoi Kusama - oeuvres récentes, les Abattoirs - FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France Yayoi Kusama, AGYU / Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
2000 Yayoi Kusama, Le consortium, Dijon, France / Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris, 13 Feb -19 May 2001 / Kunsthallen Brandts Aedefabrik, 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, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK Yayoi Kusama, Piece Unique, Paris, France Yayoi Kusama Prints, Mubanso, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama Early Drawings, from the Collection of Richard Castellane, The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey, US / Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, USA / Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada / Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA / Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama: Recent Works, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Jean Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea Yayoi Kusama: Early Drawings From The Collection Of Richard Castellane, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA Yayoi Kusama, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
1999 Yayoi Kusama: Where am I ?, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968/In Full Bloom: Yayoi Kusama, Years In Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama – Now, Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
1998 Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Mayfair, London, UK Yayoi Kusama - Works on paper from the 1950's, Peter Blum Gallery, New York City, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA Yayoi Kusama: Recent Oil Paintings, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Love forever - Yayoi Kusama, 1958 – 1968, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
1997 Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work and Paintings from the New York Years, Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, DC, USA Yayoi Kusama, Kato Kyobundo, Osaka, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Vision, The Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL, US A Yayoi Kusama Prints, Gallery Olive, Tokyo, Japan Kusama's Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA Yayoi Kusama, Gallery East, Australia Yayoi Kusama: A Snake, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama - Dots Obsession, Rice Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
1996 Yayoi Kusama: Repetition, Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Olive, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: A Panorama of My Youth, Media of Modern Art Contemporary Gallery (MOMA Contemporary), Fukuoka, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: The 1950s and 1960s, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama: Ten Paintings from the '60s to the Present, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Ouka Shorin, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Haruka, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Matsumoto, Japan Yayoi Kusama: I Who Committed Suicide, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama Recent Prints - Memorial Shot, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan Yayoi Kusama Etchings, 77 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: I who Committed Suicide, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Yayoi Kusama Gallery Kura, Matsumoto, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Atelier Kan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: My Solitary Way to Death, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Orient Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Okayama Art Gallery, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Art Wing, Kanagawa, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Chiyoda Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan Kusama 1970s - Recent Works, Gallery Now, Toyama Japan Yayoi Kusama, Media of Modern Art Contemporary Gallery (MOMA Contemporary), Fukuoka, Japan
1993 Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya, Japan Ham Collection: Yayoi Kusama 1952 – 1993, Gallery Ham, Nagoya, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Cardazzo, Venice, Italy Yayoi Kusama, Gallerie d'Arte del Naviglio, Venice, Italy Yayoi Kusama, The 45th Venice Biennale, Japanese Pavillion, Venice, Italy Yayoi Kusama, Shuyu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Now, Toyama, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Tomita, Hiroshima, Japan Prints exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 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, NY, USA
1992 Yayoi Kusama, Art Gallery K2, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Aries, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Mominoki, Tochigi, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Ouka Shorin, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Takeuchi, Aichi, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Art Gallery K2, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Esprit-Nouveau, Okayama, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Toki, Hokkaido, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMA Contemporary), Fukuoka, Japan
Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Lamia, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Bursting Galaxies, Sogetsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Athens, Osaka, Japan (1991-1992) Yayoi Kusama, Sho Art Gallery, Fukushima, Japan Kusama's Collage 1953-86, Nabis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Art Gallery K2, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMA Contemporary), Fukuoka, Japan 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 Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Vinci, Gunma, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Between Heaven and Earth, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Paintings · Prints · Objects, Oka Shorin, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Lamia, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Ashibi-sha, Saitama, Japan
1990 Yayoi Kusama, Shinon Nishiwaki Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Fine Art Hiiragi, Kagoshima, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Kyouni Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Chikugo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Kyouni Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kosai, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Center of International Contemporary Arts, New York, NY, USA, (1989-1990) In Context: Yayoi Kusama, Soul Burning Flashes, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK, (1989-1990) Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, (1989-1990) Yayoi Kusama: Recent Prints, Objects, Paintings, Gallery Ikeda Art, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, Japan
1988 Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Hakone Open Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
1987 Yayoi Kusama, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL, USA
1986 Prints by Yayoi Kusama, Tamagawa Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Musée Municipal, Dôle, France Infinity ¥ Explosion, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Nabis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Christian Chenau, Paris, France
1985 Performance: Flower of Basara, Kuhonbutsu Joshin-ji Temple, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Missoni Boutique at Yurakucho-Marion Seibu, Tokyo, Japan
1984 Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Stella, Fukouka, Japan Kusama's Self-Obliteration, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1983 Yayoi Kusama, Tubaki Gallery, Chiba, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Encounter of Souls, Jardin de Luseine, Fuji Television Gallery, Shigeo Anzai [a photographer] vs. Yayoi Kusama, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Supplement Gallery, Tokyo , Japan Yayoi Kusama: 1950-1970, Internationale Galerij Ornis, The Hague, Netherlands Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Books Rokusan, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Prints and Drawings, Gallery Dorape , Kobe, Japan
1982 Exhibition of Yayoi Kusama, Box Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Yayoi Kusama and Obsession, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Box Art by Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kumo, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Box Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Manu, Akita, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Orient Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy
1981 Yayoi Kusama, Central Gallery, Chiba, Japan The Puzzle Art of Yayoi Kusama, Shibuya Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kumo, Tokyo, Japan Unknown Works by Yayoi Kusama: The Flash That Burns Grass, American Center, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Self-Obliteration of Nets and Polka Dots, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama Soaring from the Dark and Bright Swamp, Nagano Tokyu Department Store, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Infinity and Repetition of Nets and Polka Dots, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Kiku Sui Gallery, Boston, USA
1980 Yayoi Kusama, Toho Gallery, Osaka, Japan Infinity and Repetition of Nets and Polka Dots, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Self-Obliteration of Nets and Polka Dots, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo, Japan 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, Japan
1979 Yayoi Kusama Exhibition, Chungeki Art Salon, Matsumoto, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Exhibition of New Works, Inoue Fourth Floor Gallery, Matsumoto, Japan
1978 Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto Hall of Commerce and Industry Building, Nagano, Japan (1978-1979)
1977 Yayoi Kusama & Shoichi Ito, Transport Building, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Collages, Gallery Nikko, Nikko, Japan
1976 Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Art, a Requiem for Death and Life, Osaka Formes Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1975 Yayoi Kusama: Message of Death from Hades, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1971 Yayoi Kusama: Cage/Painting/Woman, Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, The Netherlands
1970 Self-Obliteration - An Environmental Performance, New School for Social Research, New York, NY, USA
1968 Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Mickery, Loenersloot, The Netherlands Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Ursula Lichter, Frankfurt, Germany
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, USA Bust Out Happening, Central Park, New York, NY, USA Happening, Blue Dome discotheque, New York, NY, USA Grand Orgy to Awaken the Dead Happening, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA Kusama Fashions Company, Establishes, New York, NY, USA
1968 Nude performance at the discotheque, Electric Circus, New York, NY, USA Love in Festival, Central Park, New York, NY, USA Weekly Flesh-In, Body-painting stage, Nirvana Headshop, New York, NY, USA Naked Demonstration/Anatomic Explosion Happening, Wall Street, New York, NY, USA Body Painting Happening, Avanti Galleries, New York, NY, USA Homosexual Wedding Happening, Church of Self-Obliteration, New York, NY, USA Nude Happening, the Allan Burke Show, New York, NY, USA Naked Happenings, Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA Exhibition of works by Yayoi Kusama from 1963 to 1965, Galerie Mickery, Loenersloot, The Netherlands; travelled to Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, The Netherlands Mona Lisa Happening, Kusama's Studio, New York, NY, USA Orgy Happening by the Soviet Flag, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Lichter, Frankfurt, Germany Nixon Homosexual Orgy Happening Burn the Panties Happening, New York, NY, USA The Horse by Polka Dots Happening, Central Park, New York, NY, USA Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy Love Happening, (December)
1967 Self-Obliteration: An Audio-Visual-Light Performance Happening, Black Gate Theater, New York, NY, USA Serielle Formationen, Studio Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany Horse Play (Grouptwoonetwo) Happening, Inter-Arts Festival, Washington Square Park, New York, NY, USA Horse Play, Self Obliteration by Kusama: An Audio-Visual-Light Performance Happening, Woodstock, NY, USA New York, Body Festivals Happenings, Washington Square Park and Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY, USA Kusama Tea Dancers Happening, Electric Circus, New York, NY, USA Body-Painting Party Happening, Cheetah Club, New York, NY, USA Love Room, Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, The Netherlands Happenings with Polka Dots, performed throughout, The Netherlands Body Festival Happening, Chrysler Art Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA
1966 Yayoi Kusama: Driving Image Show, Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy, travelled to Galerie M. E. Thelen, Essen, Germany Kusama's Peep Show: Endless Love Show, Castellane Gallery, New York, NY, USA New Collection, Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA Yayoi Kusama, Nova Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
1965 Solo exhibition and Happening, Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA Yayoi Kusama, Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, The Netherlands Yayoi Kusama: Floor Show, Castellane Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1964 Kusama: Driving Image Show, Castellane Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1963 Yayoi Kusama: One Thousand Boats Show , Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York, NY, US (1963-1964) Driving Image, Castellane Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1962 Yayoi Kusama, Robert Hanamura Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1961 Recent Painting: Yayoi Kusama, Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, NY, USA Yayoi Kusama: Watercolors, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
1960 Yayoi Kusama, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
1959 Yayoi Kusama, First solo exhibition in New York, Brata Gallery, New York, NY, USA Recent Paintings by Yayoi Kusama, Nova Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
1957 Yayoi Kusama, Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
1955 Yayoi Kusama, Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Kyuryudo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1954 Yayoi Kusama, Shirokiya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Mimatsu Shobo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Eight Japanese Women Artists, Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1952 Yayoi Kusama, First Community Center, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Second solo exhibition, First Community Center, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
Selected Awards
2006 Praemium Imperiale, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Odre des Arts et des Lettes, Paris, France
2000 Asahi Price, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Projects / Commissions
2019 Life of the Pumpkin Recites,All About the Biggest Love for the People, 2019, FIAC Vendome, Paris, France Love Flies up to the Sky, Macy’s Parade, New York, USA The Twist Opening, Kistefos, Norway
2018 Infinite Accumulation, Elisabeth Line, London, UK
2012 Collaboration with Louis Vuitton Thousands of Eyes, Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law, Brisbane, Australia
2011 Polka Dots Festival in London, London, UK
2007 Hello, Anyang with Love, Pyeonghwa Park, Anyang, China The Hymn of Life: Tulips, Beverly Gardens Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2006 Pumpkin, Bunka-mura on Benesse Island of Naoshima, Japan
2003 Tsumari in Bloom, Matsudai Station, Niigata, Japan Tulipes Shangri-La, Euralille, Lille, France
2002 The Visionary Flowers, Matsumoto Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan
1998 Mural, Gare do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal
1994 Pumpkin, Fukuoka Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Selected Bibliography
2021 Yoshitake, Mika, Yayoi Kusama: Cosmic Nature, (Rizzoli International Publications, 2021) Dempsey, Amy, Destination Art (Art Essentials), (London, Thames and Hudson Ltd; New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Inc, 2021)
2020 Yayoi Kusama: Everyday I Pray For Love, (New York: David Zwirner Books, 2020) Whyte, Ewan, Shifting Paradigms: Essays on Art & Culture, (Toronto; Chicago; Buffalo; Lancaster: Guernica, 2020) Nisbet, Peter, Yayoi Kusama: Open the shape called love; the James Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach Collection, (Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 2020) Yayoi Kusama - Cosmic Nature, (New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2020) YAYOI KUSAMA: Love Forever, (BAI NV, 2020)
2019 Yayoi Kusama: HERE, ANOTHER NIGHT COMES FROM TRILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY: Eternal Infinity, (Tokyo: Yayoi Kusama Foundation, 2019)
2018 Sorkin, Jenni, Yayoi Kusama, (London, UK: David Zwirner Books, 2018) Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love, (Japan: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha Co. LTD, 2018)
2017 Applin, Jo; Baker, Emma, and Mitchell, Juliet, Traumata: Bourgeois / Kusama,, (London:Sotheby’s, 2017) Chui, Melissa; Dumbadze, Alexander, and Sutton, Gloria auth., Yoshitake, Mika, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, (New York: Prestel, 2017)
Keehan, Reuben and Storer, Russel, Yayoi Kusama: Life Is the Heart of a Rainbow, (Singapore: National Gallery of Singapore, 2017) Suzuki, Sarah, Weinstein, Ellen, Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity, (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2017) Tatehata, Akira,and Kusama, Yayoi, Yayoi Kusama: Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art, (Tokyo: Yayoi Kusama Foundation, 2017) Yalkut, Jud, Yayoi Kusama, (London: Phaidon, 2017) Yayoi, Kusama, Yusuke, Minami, Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul, (Tokyo: The National Art Center, 2017)
2016 Coomer, Martin, et al., Yayoi Kusama, (London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2016) Tatehata, Akira, Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love, (New York: David Zwirner Books, 2016)
2015 Laurberg, Marie, et al., In Infinity, (Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015) Tatehata, Akira, Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love, (New York: David Zwirner Books, 2015) Yamamura, Midori, Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular, (Cambridge, The MIT Press, 2015)
2014 Ahyoung Kim, et al., Yayoi Kusama: A Dream in Jeju, (Jeju: Bonte Museum, 2014) Kusama, Yayoi, Yayoi Kusama: Hi, Konnichiwa, (Tokyo: Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc, 2014) Larratt-Smith, Philip, and Morris, Frances, Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Obsession, (Mexcio City: Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo) Sohyeon, Park, and Kusama, Yayoi, Yayoi Kusama: A Dream I Dreamed, (Seoul: Seoul Arts Center, 2014) Tatehata, Akira, et al., I Who Have Arrived in Heaven, (New York: David Zwirner Books, 2014) Williams, Gilda, Yayoi Kusama: Pumpkins, (London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2014)
2013 Yayoi Kusama: Prints, 1979-2013, (Tokyo: ABE Publishing, 2013) Kim, Sunhee, et al., Yayoi Kusama: A Dream, I Dreamed, (Shanghai: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013) Kusama, Yayoi, Hi, Konnichiwa, (New York: Kodansha, 2013) Larrat-Smith, Philip, et al., Yayoi Kusama: Obsesión Infinita, (Buenos Aires: Fundación Eduardo F. Constantini, 2013) Sonoda, Sayaka, Yayoi Kusama: Locus of the Avant-Garde, (Nagano: The Shinamai Shoseki Printing Co., 2013) Taylor, Rachel, Yayoi Kusama: White Infinity Nets, (London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2013)
2012 Applin, Jo, Infinity Mirror Room - Phalli's Field, (London: Afterall, 2012) Coomer, Martin, Yayoi Kusama. (London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2012) Kusama, Yayoi, Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012) Morris, Frances, Yayoi Kusama, (London: Tate Publishing, 2012) Neri, Louise, and Goto, Takaya, Yayoi Kusama, (New York: Rizzoli, 2012) Tatehata, Akira, et al., Yayoi Kusama: Eternity of Eternal Eternity, (Tokyo: The Asahi Shimbun, 2012)
2011 Aono, Naoko; Hata, Takashi; Kasai, Reiko; Kawachi, Hideko; Nakahara, Sayoko; Shinkawa, Takashi, and Yui, Kiyomi, We Love Yayoi Kusama, (Tokyo: Hankyu Communications, 2011) Deban, Alain, Yayoi Kusama, (Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2011) Kusama, Yayoi, Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama, (London: Tate Publishing, 2011) Kusama, Yayoi, Yayoi Kusama: Prints 1979-2011, (Tokyo: Abe Publishing, 2011) Yayoi Kusama’s Body Festival in the 60s, (Tokyo: Access, 2011) Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever, (Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, 2011)
2009 Yayoi Kusama: Phallic Girl, 1967, (Fukuoka: MOMA Contemporary Co. Ltd, 2009) Ex, Sjarel, Yayoi Kusama: Mirror Years, (Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, 2009) Neri, Louise, et al., I Want to Live Forever, (Milan: PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, 2009) Theerman, Amy Elise, Yayoi Kusama: Performing Difference Through the 'Madwoman' Masquerade, (Milton Keynes: The Open University, 2009) Neri, Louise, Yayoi Kusama, (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009)
2008 Applin, Jo, and Wright, Glenn Scott,Yayoi Kusama, (London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2008)
2007 Kusama, Yayoi, Yayoi Kusama: I Like Myself, (Tokyo, Infas Books, 2007)
2006 Farronato, Milovan; Vettese, Angela,Yayoi Kusama: Metamorfosi/Metamorphosis, (Modena: Galleria - Civica di Modena, 2006)
2005 Kusama, Yayoi, Manhattan Suicide Addict, (Dijon: Les presses du reel, 2005)
2004 Fumio, Najo, Yayoi Kusama: Kusamamatrix, (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten Publishers, 2004) Matsumoto, Tohru ed., Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Eodernity, (Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, 2004) Kusama, Yayoi, Yayoi Kusama: Prints 1979-2004, (Tokyo: Abe Piublishing, 2004)
2003 Grässlin, Karola / Verwoert, Jan. Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1949 bis 2003, (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2003) Yayoi Kusama: Furniture by graf, (Kyoto: Seigensha Art Publishing, 2003)
2002 Kusama, Yayoi, Infinity Nets, (Tokyo: Sakuhinshu, 2002) Ormond, Mark, Yayoi Kusama, (Miami Beach: Bass Museum of Art, 2002) Yayoi Kusama: Dot paradise in Shangri-La, (Kagoshima: Kirishima Open-Air Museum, 2002)
2001 Douroux, Xavier; Gautherot, Franck; Kim, Seung-duk, Nickas, Robert, and Pecoil, Vincent, Yayoi Kusama, (Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 2001) Kim, Seung-duk, et al., Yayoi Kusama (Le Consortium, Contemporary Art Center, Dijon, 2000), Dijon: Les presses du reel, 2001)
2000 Castellane, Richard and Moos, David, Yayoi Kusama: Early Drawings from the Collection of Richard Castellane, (Birmingham: Birmingham Museum of Art, 2000) Hoptman, Laura and Peyton-Jones, Julia auth., Corrin, Lisa G., ed., Yayoi Kusama, (London: Serpentine Gallery, 2000) Hoptman, Laura, Yayoi Kusama, (London: Phaidon Press, 2000)
1999 Hoptman, Laura; Munroe, Alexandra; Seki, Naoko; Tatehata, Akira, and Zelevansky, Lynn, Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968, (Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999) Hoptman, Laura; Munroe, Alexandra; Seki, Naoko; Tatehata, Akira, and Zelevansky, Lynn, In Full Bloom: Yayoi Kusama, (Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999) Kusama, Yayoi, The Hustlers Grotto of Christopher Street, (Tapei: Crown Publishing, 1999) Kusama, Yayoi, New York ’69, (Tokyo: Sakuhinshu, 1999)
1998 Hirst, Damien, et al., Yayoi Kusama: Now, (New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1998) Kusama, Yayoi. Hustlers Grotto. Three Novellas, (Berkeley: Wandering Mind Books, 1998) Munroe, Alexandra, Yayoi Kusama: Violet Obsession: Poems, (Berkeley: Wandering Mind Books,
1998) Kusama, Yayoi, Poems: Violet Obsession, (Berkeley: Wandering Mind Books, 1998) Kusama, Yayoi, Three Novelas: Hustlers Grotto, (Berkeley: Wandering Mind Books, 1998) Kusama, Yayoi, Violet Obsession, (Tokyo: Sakuhinshu, 1998) Zelevansky, Lynmn, et al., Yayoi Kusama: Love Forever, 1958-1968, (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1998) Yayoi Kusama: Now. Interview with the artist by Damien Hirst. (New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1998)
1997 Cottong, Kathy, et al., Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Vision, (Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1997) Kusama, Yayoi, Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work and Paintings from the New York Years, (Washington: Baumgartner Galleries, 1997)
1996 Munroe, Alexandra, Yayoi Kusama: The 1950s and 1960s, (New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, 1996) Kusama, Yayoi, Yayoi Kusama: Recent Works, (New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1996)
1994 Castellane, Richard, Infinity of Space and Light in the 1950s and 1960s: Yayoi Kusama from the Collection of Richard Castellane, (New York: Picker Art Gallery & Colgate University Hamilton, 1994) Kusama, Yayoi, Yayoi Kusama: The Madhouse of Ants, (Tokyo: Jiritsu Shobo, 1994)
1993 Bertozzi, Barbara, Yayoi Kusama (46e Biennale Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia, 1993), (Roma: Valencia Moncada, 1993) Kusama, Yayoi, The New York Story, Tokyo, (Japan: Jiritsu Shobo, 1993) Tatehata, Akira, Yayoi Kusama: Giappone - XLV Biennale di Venezia/Japanese Pavilion - the 45th Venice Biennale, (Tokyo: The Japan Foundation, 1993)
1992 Hayashi, Kiichiro, Yayoi Kusama, (Tokyo: The Sogetsu Art Museum, 1992) Kusama, Yayoi, Lost in Swampland, (Tokyo: Jiritsu Shobo, 1992) Yayoi Kusama: Print Works, (Tokyo: Abe Publishing, 1992)
1991 Munroe, Alexandra, Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, (New York: Center for International Contemporary Arts, 1991) Kusama, Yayoi, The Foxgloves of Central Park, (Tokyo: Jiritsu Shobo, 1991)
1990 Kusama, Yayoi, Angels in Cape Cod, (Tokyo: Jiritsu Shobo, 1990)
1989 Karia, Bhupendra ed., Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, (New York: Center for International Contemporary Arts, 1989) Kusama, Yayoi, Aching Chandelier, (Tokyo: Peyotoru kobo, 1989) Kusama, Yayoi, Double Suicide at Sakuragazuka, (Tokyo, Jiritsu Shobo, 1989) Kusama, Yayoi, The Hustlers Grotto of Christopher Street, (Tokyo: Jiritsu Shobo, 1989) Kusama, Yayoi, Poetical Works: Distressed Like This, (Tokyo: Jiritsu Shobo, 1989)
1988 Kusama, Yayoi, Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes, (Tokyo: Fuji Television Gallery, 1988) Kusama, Yayoi, Between Heaven and Earth, (Tokyo: Jiritsu Shobo, 1988) Kusama, Yayoi, Woodstock Phallus Cutter, (Tokyo: Peyotoru kobo, 1988)
1987 Minemura, Toshiaki; Nakajima, Junichi; Nakazawa, Sinichi, Yayoi Kusama, (Fukuoka: Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, 1987)
1986 Guattari, Felix, and Minemura, Toshiaki, Infinity ∞ Explosion, (Tokyo: Fuji Television Gallery, 1986) Kusama, Yayoi, Yayoi Kusama: Driving Image, (Tokyo: PARCO Shuppan, 1986) Restany, Pierre, Yayoi Kusama, (Calais: Musée de beaux-arts de Calais, 1986)
1985 Kusama, Yayoi, The Burning of St. Mark’s Church, (Tokyo: PARCO Shuppan, 1985)
1984 Kusama, Yayoi, Manhattan Suicide Addict, (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1984) Nakahara, Yūsuke, Restany, Pierre, Yayoi Kusama, (Tokyo: Fuji Television Gallery, 1984)
1983 Kusama, Yayoi, The Hustlers Grotto of Christopher Street, (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1984)
1982 Brown, Gordon; Kultermann, Udo, and Nakahara, Yusuke,Yayoi Kusama: Obsession, (Tokyo: Fuji Television Gallery, 1982) Kusama, Yayoi, Yayoi Kusama, (Akita: Gallery Manu, Akita, 1982) Tamaki, Masatoshi,Yayoi Kusama, (Milan: Galleria d’Arte del Naviglio, 1982)
1980 Kusama, Yayoi, Unknown Works by Yayoi Kusama: The Flash That Burns Grass, (Tokyo: American Center, 1980) Takahasi, Hidemoto,Yayoi Kusama, (Osaka: Toho Gallery, 1980)
1978 Yayoi Kusama, (Matsumoto: Matsumoto Municipal Hall of Commerce and Industry, 1978)
1977 Kusama, Yayoi, A Book of Poems and Paintings, (Tokyo: Japan Edition Art, 1977) Tamaki, Masatoshi,Yayoi Kusama: Collages, (Nikko: Gallery Nikko, 1977)
1975 Nakahara, Yusuke, and Tokuda, Yoshito, Yayoi Kusama: Message of Death from Hades, (Tokyo: Nishimura Gallery, 1975)
Public Collections
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Benesse Art Site, Naoshima, Japan Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin, USA The Broad, Los Angeles, California, USA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US A Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection, New York, USA Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C, USA Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Komagane, Japan Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano, Japan Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan Oita Art Museum, Oita, Japan Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, Princeton, USA Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka City, Japan Sogetsu Foundation, Tokyo, Japan Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, US Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, US Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Tapei City, Taiwan Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, US