Yayoi Kusama
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YAYOI KUSAMA
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1929 1948 1948-51 1957 1957-58 1960 1963 1973 |
Born on March 22nd in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-ken, Japan Entered senior class at the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts & Crafts Studied at the Arts and Crafts School, Kyoto In November, moved to America; lived in Seattle Studied at the Art Students' League, New York Immigrated to the United States Granted permanent residence status in the United States; naturalized 1966 Returned to Japan |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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2012
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Yayoi Kusama, travelling exhibition: Tate Modern, London, January - May 2012, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June - September 2012 |
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2011
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Yayoi Kusama, travelling exhibition: Museo Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid, 10 May - 18 September 2011, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 19 November 2011 - 9 January 2012. |
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2009
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Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Yayoi Kusam: Mirrored Years, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand |
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2008
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Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years, Museums Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession, la Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris |
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2007
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Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany / WIELS, Brussel, Belgium Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Yayoi Kusama's Avant-Garde Fashion, Sofitel, Melbourne Yayoi Kusama Infinity Nets 2006, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan |
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2006
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Yayoi Kusama, Iwami Art Museum, Shimane, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan YAYOI in FOREVER: Forever Museum of Contemporary Art gallery, Akita, Japan Yayoi Kusama Metamorphosis, Galleria Civica Modena, Italy Yayoi Kusama, Arndt&Partner, Berlin Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York |
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2005
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Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Yayoi Kusama: Eight Places for Burning Soul, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima Yayoi Kusama: Sailing the Sea of Infinity, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto Yayoi Kusama: The Place for My Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano Yayoi Kusama ka!: 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand Yayoi Kusama Seoul: Jean Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
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2004
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Kusamatrix, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Kusama Yayoi Avant-Garde Fashion Show, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Kusamatrix, Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Colorist, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo |
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2003
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Yayoi Kusama, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum, Kagawa Yayoi Kusama, Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido Yayoi Kusama, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany |
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2002
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Yayoi Kusama: Installation, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
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2001
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Death of an Illusion, Piece Unique, Paris, France Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano Prefectural Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Eyes of Shuzo, Takiguchi Nizayamz Forest Art Museum, Toyama Studio Guenzani, Milano |
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2000
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Yayoi Kusama, Serpentine Gallery , London Yayoi Kusama, Piece Unique, Paris Yayoi Kusama Prints, Mubanso, Nagano Yayoi Kusama Silkscreen-Lame, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa Yayoi Kusama: Recent Works, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Za Gallery, Fukuoka Yayoi Kusama Prints, Collage Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Jean Gallery, Seoul Yayoi Kusama "Le consortium” (Dijon),traveled to Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris (13 Feb.-19 May,2001), Kunstallen Brandts Kldefabrik (Denmark, 12 Jun.-), Le Abattoirs (Toulouse, 5 Oct.2001-6 Jan.2002) Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins Oka-shorin, Nagano |
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1999
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Love Forever : YAYOI KUSAMA 1958-1968, In Full Bloom: YAYOI KUSAMA, Years in Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Beyond My Illusion, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka The 7th Yayoi Kusama exhibition, Bunkamura Gallery,Tokyo Yayoi Kusama Prints, Galerie 412, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery NOW, Toyama Yayoi Kusama, Crown Art Center, Taipei Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Pierre, Taichung Where am I ? Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Paris, Yokohama Messege from Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto Municipal Museum, Nagano Prefectural Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano Yayoi Kusama, Mubanso, Nagano Yayoi Kusama Screenprints-Pumpkin 1992 1993 1998, ZA GALLERY, Tokyo |
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1998
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Yayoi Kusama Prints, Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo "Love Forever : YAYOI KUSAMA 1958-1968" , Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA Yayoi Kusama, Etching Gallery NOW, Toyama Yayoi Kusama Self Obliteration, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka Yayoi Kusama, Prints Gallery Goto, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama '50-'70s ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA Yayoi Kusama NOW, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA Yayoi Kusama Works from the '50s, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA Yayoi Kusama Recent oil Painting, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo "Love Forever : YAYOI KUSAMA 1958-1968" , The Museum Modern Art, New York, USA Yayoi Kusama, Komagane kogen Art Museum, Nagano Yayoi Kusama Prints, Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo |
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1997
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Yayoi Kusama, Baumgartner Galleries Inc., Washington, USA Yayoi Kusama, Kato Kyobundo, Osaka Yayoi Kusama, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA Yayoi Kusama-Prints, Gallery Olive, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Kusama's Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
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1996
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A Panorama of My Youth, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka Prefecture Yayoi Kusama, The 1950s and 1960s, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Olive , Tokyo Yayoi Kusama : 10 Paintings from 60's to the Present, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Ouka Shorin, Nagano Yayoi Kusama Recent Works, Robert Miller Gallery, New York Yayoi Kusama Gallery HARUKA, Tokyo Repetition, Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka Photo Collage Repetitive Vision MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka |
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1995
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Yayoi Kusama, Gallery KURA, Matsumoto Yayoi Kusama : I who committed Suicide, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Recent Prints~Memorial Shot , Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama ,YU Contemporary Art, Yokohama |
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1994
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Yayoi Kusama, Gallery KURA, Matsumoto,Japan Yayoi Kusama, Atelier KAN Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Nagano Yayoi Kusama, Nagano Prefectual Shinano Art Museum Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama My Solitary Way to Death, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Orient Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama ,Takashimaya Department store,Okayama Art Gallery Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Art Wing, Kanagawa Yayoi Kusama, Chiyoda Gallery, Shizuoka Yayoi Kusama 1970s~Recent Works, Gallery Now, Toyama Yayoi Kusama, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka |
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1993
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Yayoi Kusama The 45th Venice Biennale Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Finarte, Nagaya HAM Collection Yayoi Kusama 1952-1993, Gallery HAM, Nagoya Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Valentina Moncada, Roma, Italy Yayoi Kusama, Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Venice, Italy Yayoi Kusama, Shuyu Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Now, Toyama Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Tomita, Hiroshima |
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1992
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Yayoi Kusama, Art Gallery K2, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Aries, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Mominoki, Tochigi Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Kanagawa Bursting Galaxies, The Sogetsu Art Museum, Japan Yayoi Kusama, Gallery LAMIA, Tokyo Bursting Galaxies, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata |
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1991
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Yayoi Kusama 1953-1990, Art Gallery K2, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Vinci, Gunma Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Between Heaven and Earth, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Paintings Prints Objects, Oka Shorin, Nagano Yayoi Kusama, Gallery LAMIA, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Kanagawa Prints: Yayoi Kusama, Art Space Ashibisha, Saitama Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Athens, Osaka |
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1990
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Yayoi Kusama, Gallery KURA, Nagano Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kyouni, Tokyou Yayoi Kusama, Chikugo Gallery, Kurume,Fukuoka |
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1989
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Yayoi Kusama: Recent Prints, Objects, Paintings Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama Gallery KURA, Nagano Yayoi Kusama: Retrospective, Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York, USA Soul Burning Flash, The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo |
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1988
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Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa |
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1987
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Yayoi Kusama, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka Yayoi Kusama, Musee Municipal de Dole |
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1986
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Prints by Yayoi Kusama, Tamagawa Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo Infinity Explosion, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Calais, France |
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1984 |
Yayoi Kusama, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo |
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1983
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Yayoi Kusama, Tsubaki Gallery, Chiba Yayoi Kusama: Encounter of Souls, Jardin de Luseine, Harajuku, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Supplement Gallery, Tokyo Kusama's Self-Obliteration (Performance), Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Prints and Drawings (on shikishi boards), Gallery do ra pe, Kobe Yayoi Kusama, Gallery KURA, Nagano Yayoi Kusama, Books Rokusan, Nagano |
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1982
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Yayoi Kusama, Box Gallery, Nagoya Obsession Yayoi Kusama, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo Box Art by Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kumo, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Manu, Akita Yayoi Kusama, Orient Gallery, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama, Galleria del Navigrio, Milano, Italy |
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1981 |
The Puzzle Art of Yayoi Kusama, Shibuya Seibu Department Store, Tokyo |
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1980
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Yayoi Kusama, Toho Gallery, Osaka Unknown Works by Yayoi Kusama: The Flash That Burns Grass, American Center, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama: Self obliteration of Nets and polka Dots, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama Soaring from the Dark and Bright Swamp, Nagano Tokyu Department Store, Nagano Yayoi Kusama: Infinity and Repetition of Nets and polka Dots, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo |
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1979 |
Yayoi Kusama: Exhibition of New Works, Inoue Department Store Fourth Floor Gallery, Nagano |
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1976 |
Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Art, a Requiem for Death and Life, Osaka Formes Gallery, Tokyo |
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1975 |
Message of Death from Hades, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo |
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1968
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Mickery Gallery, Holland Lichter Gallery, Germany |
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1967 |
Love Room Internationale, Galerij Orez, Hague |
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1966
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Driving Image Show, Naviglio Gallery,Milan, Italy Kusama's Peep Show/ Endless Love Show, R. Castellane Gallery, New York, USA Driving Image Show, M.E. Thelen Gallery, Essen, Germany New Collection, Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, USA |
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1965
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Internationale, Galerij Orez, Hague Floor Show, R. Castellane Gallery, New York, USA |
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1964 |
R. Castellane Gallery, New York, USA |
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1963 |
Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York USA |
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1962 |
Robert Hanamura Gallery, Chicago, USA |
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1961
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Stephen Radich Gallery , New York USA Avant-garde 61, Stadtisches Museum in Trier, West Germany Gres Gallery, Washington, D.C. USA |
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1960
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Monochrome, Malerei Stadtisches Museum in Leverkusen, Germany Gres Gallery, Washington,D.C. USA |
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1959
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Nova Gallery, Boston USA Brata Gallery, New York, USA |
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1957 |
Zoe Dusanne Gallery,Seattle USA |
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1955
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Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo Kyuryu-do Gallery, Tokyo |
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1954 |
Shiroki-ya, Tokyo Mimatsu-Shobo Gallery, Tokyo |
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1952 |
The First Community Center, Matsumoto, Japan |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2010 |
17th Biennale of Sydney, The Beauty of Distance: songs of survival in a precarious age, Director: David Elliot |
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2007 |
Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan, Long March Project, "798" Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China Rose Art: Works from the Permanent Collection, The Rose Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA NAOSHIMA STANDARD 2, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan |
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2006 |
Vision II, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan Line and Surface Works on Paper, Peter Blum Gallery, New York Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo, Mori Museum, Tokyo Part object Part sculpture, Wexner Center of the Arts, Gallery C, Ohio ZERO. International Avant-garde of the 50's and 60's, museum kunst palast, Dusseldorf, Germany Singapore Biennale Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary, Aomori Art of Art, Aomori, Japan IDOL!, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan Naoshima Standard Exhibition, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan Crimson Eye, Piece Unique, Paris Collage and Photomontage, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo Real Utopia Stories of the Unlimited, 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan |
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2005 |
Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain |
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2004
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Yayoi Kusama: Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA 2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo The University Art Museum - Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo And or Versus?: Adventures in Images, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa Why not live for art?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo |
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2003 |
ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNIAL2003, Echigo-tsumari, Niigata Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Lille 2004 European Capital of Culture, Lille, France |
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2002 |
Asia-Pacific Triennial 2002, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
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2001 |
Century City, Tate Modern, London les annees Pop, Centre Pompidou, Paris Collaborations with Parkett 1984 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Parkett Artists' Editions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Global Visions- Art after 1980 from the Museum Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Louise Bourgeois Yayoi Kusama Works from 1942 to 2000, Peter Blum, New York Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London Box Art, Rias Ark Museum of Art, Miyagi Yayoi Kusama Prints, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama 2001, Pacifico Yokohama Convention Hall, Red Brick Warehause No.1 Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum ARC (Gunma) |
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2000 |
New year art, Gallery Now, Toyama Group exhibition, ATC Museum, Osaka Vacant Lot , Toyota Municipal Museum of Art Art Buffet-Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum Arc, Gunma Group exhibition, Gallery HAM, Nagaya Group exhibition, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano Permanent Collection, Nigata City Art Museum The Permanent Exhibition, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu Group exhibition, Niigata City Art Museum Group exhibition, SK Gallery,Tokyo Work on Paper exhibition, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Biennale of Sydney 2000 Group exhibition, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo Japanese Art in the 20th Century, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Cultural Ties, Jariwara West zone Gallery, London, UK Hyper Mental, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland |
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1999 |
The permanent exhibition, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Contemporary Art Lessons, Akita Senshu Museum of Art Out of Action 1949-1979 Between Performance and Object , Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo 50's-60's WORKS , Takeda Bijustu, Tokyo Narrative Art from the Collection, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts Contemporary Classism , Neuberger Museum of Art , Westchester County, New York, USA Group exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset , The National Museum of modern Art, Kyoto The Balloon Art Festival, Granship Sizuoka Convention & Arts Center
France-Japan L'art sans frontier, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Group exhibition, Niigata City Art Museum Summer Collection, 77 Gallery, Tokyo Japanese contemporary prints vol.6, Art Box Gallery, Tokyo Xmas with ART '99, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Art Jungle, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama |
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1998 |
Artists Exhibition Toho Gallery, Tokyo Tensions Robert Miller Gallery, New York Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation , MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts, USA Group exhibition,Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo 1998 Taipei Biennial: Site of Desire, Taipei Fine Arts Museum Contemporary Japanese Prints Vol.5, ART BOX GALLERY, Tokyo Now and Forever Part 1, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York wakuwaku! dokidoki! Summer Museum!!, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama Art/Ecosystem The Contemporary Japanese Art Scene, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi To and From Shuzo Takiguchi , The National Museum of Art, Osaka Towards Another Normality , Hara Museum ARC, Gunma
Art Now in Japan and Korea Between the Unkown Straits, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, |
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1997 |
New Collections, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama The Maximal Sixties, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA NHK Heart Exhibition, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo De-Genderism, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo Japan Today, MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Wien, Austria Exhibition by Three Women Artists from Shinshu(Nagano Prefecture) Suzaka Prints Museum (Nagano) Exhibition of Works in Permanent Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama Contemporary Art : How Can They Possibly Understand It , Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo Flotiong Images of Woman in Art History, Tochigi Prefectual Museum of Fine Art Japanese Sumer 1960-64, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki Prints, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Group exhibition, Bunkamura Gallery |
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1996 |
With drawing, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York 1964 : A Turning Point in Japanese Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Collection in Focus: Selected drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Exhibition of 50 Contemporary Japanese Artists, Nabio Museum of Art, Osaka Drawing Internationa,l Galerie A / Harry Ruhe, Amsterdam GEKIand GEKI : Art Then Art Now, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma Prefecture The 31st 'Artist Today' Exhibition, Yokohama Citizens' Gallery Inside of Works, Outside of Works, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo Art of Postwar 1960s Avant-Garde, Kurashiki Municipal Art Museum, Okayama Prefecture Art at Home, Ideal Standard Life Spiral Garden, Tokyo Now Here, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark A Decade of an Avantgarde Artists, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo Shedding Light on Art in Japan 1953, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo Materials and Forms, Nine Artists' Attitudes, Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of Modern Art Form Beyond Forms 16 abstract paintings in Japan, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art New Collection of Commissions on the theme 'Hiroshima' , Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art New Installations, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA Art on a Diet, JR Osaka Selvis Gallery Exhibition of Portraits, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Art on a Diet, Gallery Seira, Tokyo |
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1995 |
Narcissistic Disturbance, Otis Gallery, Los Angeles, USA ARS 95 HELSINKI, Museum of Contemporary Art ,Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland Group Show, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York, USA Hyogo Aid '95 by Art Art Charity Bazar, Gallery Dorape Auguries of the 21st Century -Prints, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo View of Contemporary Prints, Niigata City Art Museum Japanese Culture : The Fifty post War Years , Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo Exhibition of Permanent Collection, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Minimal Form, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo About Lines : Non-existing Modaernism and Invisible Realism, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo Japanese Culture : The Fifty post War Years, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Japanese Culture : The Fifty post War Years, Hyogo Prefectual Museum of Modern Art, Kobe Summer Collection, Touho Gallery (Tokyo) A Technique of Contemporary Art (1), Collage Nerima Museum of Art, Tokyo Revolution: Art of The Sixties From Warhol to Beuys, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Japanese Culture : The Fifty post War Years, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka Prefecture ARCADIA Group Show, Gallery Isogaya, Tokyo Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Imagery Forest Inazawa City Ogisu Memorial Museum of Art, Aichi Kanagawa International Prints Festival, Kanagawa Prefectual Hall Prints, Ota Fine Arts (Tokyo) 50 Artist / 50 Works, Satani Gallery, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama Etchings, 77Gallery, Tokyo Hyogo Aid '95 by Art Ban Gallery, Osaka, December |
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1994 |
Cross and Square Grids, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama Japanese Art after 1945:Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Art Museum When the Body Becomes Art, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo Very Special Art, The Ueno Royal Museum Very Special Art, The Hakone Open-Air Musem Japanese Self-Portrait, Mitaka Cty Gallery of Art,Tokyo aspects(1979-1994), Hara Museum ARC (Gunma, Japan) Out of Bounds, Benesse House Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum Museum City Tenjin '94, Super Suburb Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Denmark, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, Waino Aaltosen Museo, Turku, Finland, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm |
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1993 |
Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata Vision, Illusion, and Anti-illusion from the Museum Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Art from US, Landmark Hall (Yokohama) Japanese Outsider Art: Inhabitants of Another World, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo |
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1992 |
Adam & Eve, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama X'mas Art Party by 200 Artists, Guardian Garden, Tokyo 10 Artists: Contemporary Japanese Art of the 1980s-90s, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
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1991 |
Yayoi Kusama-Collage 1952-83, Nabis Gallery, Tokyo The World of Box ATM, Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito Art, Ibaraki The 2nd Tokyo Art Expo 1991, The Tokyo International Trade Center, Harumi Contemporary Art in Monochrome : from the Museum Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Landscape into Modern Art: from the Museum Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum AERONART , Loire Castles |
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1990 |
BOX ART OF 90, Heineken Village ,Tokyo The Art of Collage/Assemblage from the museum collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum The Silent Dialogue: Still Life in the West and Japan, Sizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art PHARMAKON'90 Nippon Convention Center, Makuhari Messe O Art and Vision: from Japanese Modern Art, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi |
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1989 |
An Aspect of Contemporary Painting: Structure of Repetition, Takamatsu City Museum of Art Why Do Contemporary Artists Not Make Prints? Mohly Gallery, Osaka Exhibition of New Collection from Apr.1,1986-Mar. 31,1989, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka Art Exciting, The Museum of Modern Art ,Saitama Print works by 12 Artists, Heineken Village, Tokyo Original Poster Exhibition by Maison Franco, Japonaise Yurakucho Art Forum, Tokyo KAME-ZA Shell and Vessel, Signifying Yokohama Citizens' Gallery, Yokohama |
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1988 |
Art Kites, Mie Prefectural Museum of Art |
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1987 |
Object: Deviated Materials, Tsukashin Hall, Osaka Recent Acquisitions, The National Museum of Art, Osaka Toyosaku Saito and Pointillism in Japan, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama |
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1986 |
The Message: 83 Contemporary Japanese Painters, Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama Contemporary Japanese Art , Taipei Fine Arts Museum Art: A Dialogue on Peace, Ohkurayama Memorial Hall, Yokohama Japon des Avant Gardes 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
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1985 |
Contemporary Art Fair, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo 40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Reconstruction: Avantgarde Art in Japan,1845-1965, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK |
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1984 |
Two Decades of Contemporary Painting: 1960-1980, Gunma Prefectural museum of Modern Art |
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1983 |
Prints by Yayoi Kusama and Ushio Shinohara, Gallery Ho-sun, Tokyo Trends in Contemporary Art The 1960s- Towards Diversity, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
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1982 |
The 1960's - A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art , The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto November Steps: Artists of Today, Yokohama Citizens' Gallery, Yokohama The 1960's - A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
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1979
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Exhibition Yayoi Kusama & Shoichiro Ito, Transport Building,Tokyo Weich and Plastisch/Soft Art Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland |
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1977 |
Improbable Furniture, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA |
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1976 |
Tenth Street Days:The Co-ops of the 50s , Brata Gallery, New York, USA |
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1974 |
Woman's Work: American Art, The Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Centre, USA |
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1970 |
Zero-Unexecuted, Institute of the History of Arts, University of Amsterdam, Holland |
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1968 |
Soft and Apparently Soft Sculpture, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and New York |
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1967 |
Objecten: Made in U.S.A, Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, Holland Aussfellung: Serielle Farmationen Studio Galerie, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany |
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1966
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33rd Venice Biennale The Object Transformed, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Total-Realismus, Galerie Potsdamer, Berlin, Germany Inner and Outer Space, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
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1965 |
Aktuell 65, Galerie Aktuell, Bern, Switzerland New Eyes, Chrysler Museum of Art, Provincetown Zero Avanguardia, Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Zero Avanguardia, Galleria il Punto, Turin Japanese Artists abroad Europe and America, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
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1964 |
Mikro Zero/Nul/Mkro nieuw realisme, Galerie Delta, Rotterdam |
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1963 |
New Work Part 1, Green Gallery, New York, USA Panorama van de nieuwe tendenzen, Gallery Amstel, Amsterdam, Netherlands No Show, Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York, USA Two-person exhibition Kusama/Onosato, Zuni Gallery, Buffalo, USA |
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1962 |
Accrochange, Galerie A, Amsterdam, Netherlands Tentoonstelling Nul, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Nieuwe Tendenzen, State University Gallery, Leiden Guy Dorekens Gallery, Antwerp |
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1961 |
Painting and Sculpture, Gres Gallery's Chicago branch, Carnegie Institude, Pittsburgh, USA |
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1960
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The International Watercolor Exhibition:Twentieth Biennial, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA Nova Gallery (Boston) |
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1959 |
Japanese Abstraction, Gres Gallery, Washington D.C., USA Japanese-American Woman Artist Exhibition, Riverside Museum, New York, USA |
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1958 |
Modern Japanese Paintings, Brata Gallery, New York, USA |
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1955 |
The International Watercolor Exhibition: 18th Biennial, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA |
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MAJOR PUBLICATIONS |
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2005 |
Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, Tokyo, Japan Collection of Print Works, 1979 - 2004, Abe Corporation, Tokyo, Japan |
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2004 |
kUSAMATRIX: Kusama Yayoi, exh. cat. (curated by Yayoi Kusama Studio, Kojima Yayoi, Uchida Mayumi), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, exh. cat., (Concepts, Eternity-Modernity: Tohru Matsumoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Eight Places for the Burning Soul: Hitoshi Dehara, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Sailing the Sea of Infinity: Hiroshi Minamishima, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto; The Place for my Soul: Akira Shibutami, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto Yayoi Kusama: Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1949 bis 2003, exh. cat., Kunstverein Braunschweig, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Germany |
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2001 |
Yayoi Kusama, exh. cat., (curated by Xavier Douroux, Franck Gautherot, Seung-duk Kim, Pascal Pique), Le Consortium, contemporary art centre, Dijon; Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris; Kunsthallen Brandts Klćdefabrik, Odense, Denmark; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Artsonje Centre, Seoul; Artsonje Museum, Kyongju, Contemporary Art Series: Les presses duu réel/janvier and Studio Kusama |
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2000 |
Laura Hoptman, Akira Tatehata, Udo Kultermann, Yayoi Kusama, Phaidon Press Limited, London |
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1999 |
In Full Bloom: Yayoi Kusama, Years in Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd., Japan |
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1998 |
Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958 - 1968, exh. cat. (Co-curated by Lynn Zelevansky and Laura Hoptman), Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
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1993 |
Yayoi Kusama, exh. cat. (Commissioner: Akira Tatehata), Japanese Pavillion, 45th Venice Biennale, The Japan Foundation |
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1992 |
Yayoi Kusama: Print Works, Abe Corporation, Tokyo |