Yayoi KUSAMA
YAYOI KUSAMA
Born 1929
Matsumoto, Japan
Moved to New York 1958
Returned to Tokyo 1977
Lives and works Tokyo, Japan
Selected solo exhibitions*
2002 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
'Yayoi Kusama: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture', Elias Fine Art,
Allston, USA
2000 Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
'From Zero to Infinity: Yayoi Kusama in Context', Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, USA
'Yayoi Kusama', Le Consortium Contemporary Art Center, Dijon, France; Denmark; Korea
'Early Drawings from the Collection of Richard Castellane', The Art
Museum, Princeton University, USA
Ouka-Shorin, Nagano
Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France
1999 'In Full Bloom: Yayoi Kusama, Years in Japan', Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, USA; Japan
Crown Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Gallery Paris, Yokohama
1998 'Yayoi Kusama: Works from the 1950s', Peter Blum Gallery, New York,
USA
'Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama 1958–1968', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA; Japan
'Self Obliteration', Media of Modern Art Contemporary (Moma
Contemporary), Tokyo
1996 'Yayoi Kusama: The 1950s and 1960s', Paula Cooper Gallery, New
York, USA
Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka
1996, '98, 2002
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
1995 'Yayoi Kusama Etchings', 77 Gallery, Tokyo
1995, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000, '01
Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
1994 Nagano Prefectual Shinano Art Museum
Gallery Art Wing, Kanagawa
1993 Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy
Shuyu Gallery, Tokyo
Gallery Tomita, Hiroshima
1992 Gallery Aries, Tokyo
Gallery Lamia, Tokyo
Sogetsu Art Museum and Niigata City Art Museum
1991, '92, '94, '96, '98, '99
MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka
1991, 1996, 2000
Ouka-Shorin, Nagano
1989 'Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective', Center for International Contemporary
Art, New York, USA
Gallery Ikeda Bizyutsu, Tokyo
1989, '91, '92, '99, 2000, '01
Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
1988 'Soul Burning Flashes', Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; UK
1987 Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka
Musée Municipal, Dole, France
1983 'Self-Obliteration', Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo (performance)
'Encounter of Souls', Jardin de Luseine, Tokyo
1983, '89, '90, '94, '95
Gallery KURA, Matsumoto
1982 Box Gallery, Nagoya
1982, '84, '86, '91, '94, '95
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
1982, '93
Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy
1980 'Self Obliteration of Nets and Polka Dots', Gallery Toshin, Tokyo
'Unknown Works by Yayoi Kusama: The Flash That Burns Grass',
American Center, Tokyo
1976 'Obsessional Art, a Requiem for Death and Life', Osaka Formes
Gallery, Tokyo
1975 'Message of Death From Hades', Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
1967 'Love Room', Galerij Orez, The Hague, The Netherlands
1966 'Driving Image Show', Gallerie d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy;
Germany
'New Collection', Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, USA
1964, '65, '66
R. Castellane Gallery, New York, USA
1963 'Aggregation One Thousand Boats Show', Gertrude Stein Gallery, New
York, USA
1961 Stadtisches Museum, Trier, Germany
1960, '61
Gres Gallery, Washington DC, USA
1959 'Obsessional Monochrome', Brata Gallery, New York, USA
1957 Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, USA
1955 Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo
1952 The First Community Center, Matsumoto
Selected group exhibitions*
2001 ‘Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art’
'Les Annees Pop', Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris, France
'Collaborations with Parkett 1984 to Now', The Museum of Modern
Art, New York, USA
'Global Visions: Art After 1980', Museum of Contemporary Art,
Tokyo
'Louise Bourgeois & Yayoi Kusama: Works from 1942 to 2000',
Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA
'Facts of Life: Contemporary Japanese Art', Hayward Gallery,
London, UK
'Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis', Tate Modern,
London, UK
2000 Gallery Now, Toyama
'12th Biennale of Sydney', Australia
Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
'Japanese Art in the 20th Century', Museum of Contemporary Art,
Tokyo
1999 'Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949–76',
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA; Austria; Spain; Japan
'Spiral TV: 3rd Art Life 21 Festival', Spiral Garden, Tokyo
'Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset', The National Museum
of Modern Art, Kyoto
1998 'Tension', Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
'Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation', MIT List
Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
'Site of Desire: 1998 Taipei Biennale (3rd)', Taipei Fine Arts Museum,
Taiwan
'Art/Ecosystem: The Contemporary Japanese Art Scene', Utsunomiya
Museum of Art, Tochigi
'Towards Another Normality', Hara Museum ARC, Gunma
'Between the Unknown Straits: Art Now in Japan and Korea', Meguro
Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Korea
'Travel & Leisure', Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
1997 'The Maximal Sixties: Pop, Op and Figuration', The Museum of
Modern Art, New York, USA
'De-Genderism', Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
'Japan Today MAK', Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
'Japanese Art 1960s, Japanese Summer 1960–64', Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
'5th NICAF '97 Tokyo', Tokyo International Exhibition Center
1996 '1964: A Turning Point in Japanese Art', Museum of Contemporary
Art, Tokyo
'50 Contemporary Japanese Artists', Nabio Museum, Osaka
Galerie A, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Art of Postwar 1960s Avant-Garde', Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki
'Art at Home: Standard Ideal Life', Spiral Garden, Tokyo
'NowHere', Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
'A Decade of an Avantgarde Artists', Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA
1995 'ARS 95', Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Sweden
'Maux Faux', Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York, USA
'Minimal Form', Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
'Revolution: Art of The Sixties: From Warhol to Beuys', Museum of
Contemporary Art, Tokyo
'Japanese Culture: The Fifty Post War Years', Meguro Museum of Art,
Tokyo
'4th NICAF Yokohama '95', Pacifico Yokohama
1994 'Cross and Square Grids', The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
'Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky', Yokohama Museum
of Art, Japan; USA
'When the Body Becomes Art', Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
'Aspects (1979–1994)', Hara Museum ARC, Gunma
'Open Air '94: Out of Bounds', Benesse House Naoshima Contemporary
Art Museum
'Museum City Tenjin '94', Fukuoka
1993 'Japanese Outsider Art: Inhabitants of Another World', Setagaya
Art Museum, Tokyo
'45th Biennale di Venezia', Italy
1992 'Adam & Eve', Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
'10 Artists: Contemporary Japanese Art of the 1980s–90s', Tokyo
Metropolitan Art Museum
1991 'The World of Box', Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
1990 'The Silent Dialogue: Still Life in the West and Japan', Shizuoka
Prefectural Museum of Art
1989 '20ste Biennale Middelheim-Japan', Middelheim Open Air Museum of
Sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium
'Art Exciting '89', Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
'Japanese Ways: Western Means', Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane,
Australia
1986 'Contemporary Japanese Art', Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
'Art: A Dialogue On Peace', Ohkurayama Memorial Hall, Yokohama
'Japon des Avant-Garde, 1910–70', Musée National d'Art Moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1985 'Art Fair '85', Tokyo Central Museum of Art
'40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art', Tokyo Metropolitan Art
Museum
'Reconstructions: Avant Garde Art in Japan, 1945–1965', Museum of
Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1983 'Trends of Japanese Art in the 1960s', Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
'Yayoi Kusama and Ushio Shinohara Prints', Gallery Ho-Sun, Tokyo
1981 'The 1960s: A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art',
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1977 'Improbable Furniture', Institute of Contemporary Art, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
1974 'Woman's Work: American Art 1974', Philadelphia Civic Center, USA
1968 'Soft and Apparently Soft Sculpture', Georgia Museum of Art, Athens,
USA
1967 'Objecten: Made in USA', Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1966 '33rd Biennale di Venezia', Italy
'Inner and Outer Space', Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
'The Object Transformed', The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1965 'Zero Avanguardia', Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy
'Japanese Artists Abroad: Europe and America', National Museum of
Modern Art, Tokyo
1964 'Mikro Zero/Nul/Mikro Nieuwe Realisme', Galerie Delta, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
1963 Green Gallery, New York, USA
'No Show', Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York, USA
1962 'Tentoonstelling Nul', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1961 'Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and
Sculpture', Carnegie Institute, USA
1960 'Japanese Abstraction', Gres Gallery, Washington DC, USA
'Japan-American Women Artists Exhibition', Riverside Museum, New
York, USA
'Monochrome Malerei', Stadtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
1959 Nova Gallery, Boston, USA
1955 '18th Biennial International Watercolor Exhibition', Brooklyn
Museum, New York, USA
Qualifications, grants & awards*
1983 Kadokawa Shoten Novelist Prize, Tokyo
1982 Gold Award, Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, Italy
1958 Studied at Art Students League, New York, USA
1949 Graduated Kyoto Municipal School of Arts & Crafts
Collections*
Fukuoka Art Museum
Hara Museum ARC, Gunma
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung, Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
* All Japan unless otherwise stated
Selected bibliography
Adams, Brooks and Munroe, Alexandra. ‘Proliferating obsessions’. Art in
America, vol.78, no.4, April 1990, pp.228–33.
Corrin, Lisa G., Aladren, Mary Jane, and Greenan, Althea. ‘Kusama's tea’. Make, no.87, March–May 2000, pp.8–11.
Friis-Hansen, Dana. ‘Yayoi Kusama's feminism’. Art and Text, no.49, September 1994, pp.48–55.
Greenstein, M.A. ‘Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama in retrospective’. Art AsiaPacific, no.20, 1998, pp.34–6.
Handelman, Eliot. ‘Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958–1968: Museum of Modern Art, New York’. Parachute, no.94, April–June 1999, pp.57–8.
Hoptman, Laura et al. Yayoi Kusama. Phaidon, London, 2000.
Karia, Bhudendra & Munroe, Alexandra. Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective [exhibition catalogue]. Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York, 1989.
Koplos, Janet. ‘The phoenix returns’. Art in America, vol.87, no.2, February 1999, pp.92–7.
Kim, Seung Duk. ‘Yayoi Kusama’. Art Press, no.267, April 2001, pp.20–3.
Kultermann, Udo. ‘Lucid logic’. Sculpture, vol.16, no.1, January 1997, pp.26–31.
Kuresawa, Takemi. ‘An unwritten biography: overturning the narrative of Yayoi Kusama’s self-obliteration’. Art AsiaPacific, no.30, 2001, pp.68–76.
Matsui, Midori. ‘Beyond Oedipus: desiring production of Yayoi Kusama’. Parkett, no.59, 2000, pp.92–106.
Munder, Heike. ‘Yayoi Kusama: body and representation strategies’. Camera Austria, no.71, 2000, pp.15–26.
Munroe, Alexandra. ‘Radical will’. Art AsiaPacific, no.16, 1997, pp.28–9.
Murphy, Jay. ‘Pop goes Surrealism’. Art Papers, vol.23, no.3, May–June 1999, pp.28–9.
Nixon, Mignon. ‘Posing the phallus’. October, no.92, Spring 2000, pp.98–127.
Panhans-Buhler, Ursula. ‘Yayoi Kusama: between heaven and earth: this languid weight of life'. Parkett, no.59, 2000, pp.74–91.
Pollock, Griselda. ‘Yayoi Kusama: three thoughts of feminity, creativity and elapsed time’. Parkett, no.59, 2000, pp.107–23.
Solomon, Andrew. ‘Dot dot dot: Yayoi Kusama’. Artforum, vol.35, no.6, February 1997, pp.66–73, 100, 104, 109.
Turner, Grady. ‘Yayoi Kusama’. Bomb, no.66, Winter 1999, pp.62–9.
Walsh, Maria. ‘Obsession’. Art Monthly, no.234, March 2000, pp.7–10.
Wye, Pamela. ‘Yayoi Kusama: in between the outside and inside’. M/E/A/N/I/N/G, no.15, May 1994, pp.37–41.
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