# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yayoi-kusama
# Generated: 2026-09-02T03:29:24.879Z

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name: "Yayoi Kusama"
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description: "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."
tagline: "Japanese artist (1929–2026)"
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country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1929-03-22"
deathDate: "2026-08-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             35
  historical:           54
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.