# Yayoi Kusama

> She covers the world in polka dots — rooms, pumpkins, naked bodies, whole museums — and calls it survival. Yayoi Kusama turned hallucination into installation, and the art world made her the top-selling female artist alive.

*Japanese artist (1929–2026)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Country:** Japan
- **Born:** 1929-03-22
- **Died:** 2026-08-14
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Kusama grew up in Matsumoto and studied nihonga painting in Kyoto for a year before American abstract impressionism pulled her elsewhere. She moved to New York in 1958 and spent the 1960s in the avant-garde trenches, staging happenings where naked participants became canvases for her signature dots — a stunt that caught the counterculture wave and influenced Warhol and Oldenburg. The 1970s went quiet; her work fell out of view. A revival in the 1980s brought her back, and she hasn't stopped since. She's lived in a mental health facility since the '70s and speaks plainly about it: art is the thread she follows to stay alive, the only method she's found that eases the pain.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 79.3 / 100
- **Momentum:** 35.0 / 100  (trend: BREAKOUT)
- **Historical depth:** 54.0 / 100
- **Now attention:** 100.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 75.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 85.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #18
- **Category rank:** #16

## Platforms
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp
- **WEBSITE**: https://yayoi-kusama.jp/
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0476202/ (@nm0476202)

## Topics
#Artists, #Artist, #Sculpture, #Fiction, #Painting, #Literature, #Photography, #Voice Acting

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