Yayoi Kusama
Prints from 1982 to 2004
Biography
1929
Born in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-ken, Japan
1957
Studies at Art Student League
1958
Moves to the US. Paints in a grand format, soft sculptures and environmental installations using electricity and mirrors. During the second half of the 60s, Kusama organises body paint performances, fashion shows as well as numerous happenings against the war (most notably). She also starts to become interested in media as a means of artistic expression: production of films, a weekly publication, etc.
1963
Acquires a permanent visa to the U.S.
1967
Wins the Fourth Belgium International Short Film Prize
1968
Her film, 'Self-Obliteration,' is made and includes images of her 'naked' happenings. It is awarded at the 4th International Festival for Short-Films in Belgium. Holds various exhibitions and happenings throughout Europe.
1973
Returns to Japan. Publishes numerous novels and poem collections all in the vein of support for her artistic endeavors.
1982
Golden prize from the Italian Academy of Arts
1983
Receives the Literary Magazine Prize Yasei Jidai for her novel Christopher Homosexual Brother.
1996
Exhibits primarily in New York. Receives the International Art Critic Association prize for a solo exhibit in New York at the Paula Cooper Gallery and the Robert Miller Gallery.
2000
Receives Education Minister's Art Encouragement Prize and Foreign Minister's commendations
2001
Receives the Asahi Prize
2003
Received Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Exhibitions
2007
Yayoi Kusama, Hills Café/Space Project, Yayoi Kusama presents a polka dots café in universe, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
2007
Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession, Love transformed into Dots, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2006
YAYOI KUSAMA, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
2006
Crimson Eye, Piece Unique, Paris
2006
IDOL!, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2006
Aomori Art of Art, Aomori, Japan
2006
YAYOI KUSAMA Metamorphosis , Galleria Civica Modena, Italy
2006
ZERO. International Avant-garde of the 50's and 60's Musee d'Art Moderne, Saint- Etienne, France
2006
Singapore Biennale, Singapore
2006
Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo, Berlin, Germany
2006
Summer of Love. Art of the Psychedelic Era, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
2006
YAYOI in FOREVER, Yayoi Kusama, Iwami Art Museum, Shimane, Japan
2005 - 2006
Barocco y Neobarocco: The Hell of the Beautiful, DA2, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
2005 - 2006
Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
2005
Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
2004 - 2005
Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2004 - 2005
Yayoi Kusama: Sailing the Sea of Infinity, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
2004
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2004
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo
2004
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2003
Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon
2003
Pièce Unique and Pièce Unique Variations, Paris
2003
Love Forever, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zürich (solo)
2002
Yayoi Kusama, Kunsthalle Wein im Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
2002
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
2001
Pièce Unique, Paris and also at Pièce Unique Variations, Paris (solo)
2001
FIAC 2001 with Pièce Unique, Paris
2001
Yokohama
2000
Participated in the Sydney Biennale
2000
Solo exhibition at the Consortium in Dijon. This exhibition then was presented at the Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris, at the Abattoirs de Toulouse and various other areas in Europe and Asia
1999
American Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1998 - 1999
An important retrospective of work by Kusama is presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and then at the MOMA in New York, the Walker Art Center of Minneapolis and finally at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.
1998 - 1999
Exhibited at the Robert Miller Gallery of New York and at Pièce Unique in Paris
1998
Collective Work, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
1997
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Walker Art Center and Museum of Modern Art, New York
1996
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1995
Exhibited in Tokyo galleries and at the YU Contemporary Art in Yokohama
1994
First outdoor sculptures. Created out of Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) for the medical center of Fukuoka, the Museum of Fine Arts of Fukuoka and the "Island Museum" of Naoshima. Furthermore, Kusama realized mural paintings in the metro corridors of Lisbon
1993
Venice Biennale, Japan Pavilion, Venice
1990 - 1992
Numerous exhibitions in japanese galleries and museums
1989
Exhibitions at the Center for International Arts in New York and at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford
1986 - 1987
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais and at the Musée Municipal de Dôle
1966
Galeria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan
1962
Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York
1961
1961 Stephan Radich Gallery, New York
1961
Yayoi Kusama: Watercolors, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC
1960
Yayoi Kusama, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC
1959
Yayoi Kusama, First solo exhibition in New York, Brata Gallery, New York
1959
Brata Gallery, New York
1958
Nova Gallery, Boston
1957
Yayoi Kusama, Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle
1955
Exhibition: Yayoi Kusama, Kyuryudo Gallery, Tokyo
1954
Eight Japanese Women Artists, Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo
1952
First solo exhibition, First Community Center, Matsumoto, Nagano