Yayoi Kusama Explore Mondoir Collection Nationality: Japanese Born: 1929 BiographyYayoi Kusama (1929–2026) was a Japanese artist whose work transformed painting, sculpture, performance, installation, film, literature, and fashion. Born on March 22, 1929, in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan, she began making art as a child and developed the repeated dots and net-like patterns that became central to her visual language. After moving to New York in 1958, Kusama became a significant figure in the postwar avant-garde, creating Infinity Net paintings, soft sculptures, performances, and immersive mirrored environments that explored obsession, self-obliteration, sexuality, and the cosmos. Kusama returned to Japan in 1973 and, from 1977, chose to live in a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo while working from a nearby studio. Her Infinity Mirror Rooms and monumental pumpkin sculptures later brought her work to an exceptionally broad international audience, while major retrospectives and scholarship restored her central place in the history of postwar art. She received Japan's Order of Culture in 2016 and became one of the most influential and widely recognised artists of her generation. Kusama died at a hospital in Tokyo on August 14, 2026, aged 97. Her legacy endures in the way contemporary artists use repetition, participation, and immersive space to make inner experience visible. Artworks by Yayoi Kusama Dream Medium: Collage, Pastel, Enamel, Acrylic Marker Pen on Paper Price on request
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