Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist (1929–2026)
- Fame79.3
- Momentum35.0
- Japan rank#18
JapanShe 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.
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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 th…
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