Yayoi KusamaJAPANESE ARTIST WRITER AND CREEPER

Kusama Family 1930’s

Yayoi Kusama 1939 age 10Kusama standing in front of Zammu, or Lingering Dream, selected for the Second Creative Arts Exhibition in Nagano, 1951

Courtesy Yayoi Kusama Studio, Inc

Corpses1950Oil on Canvas

Kusama’s art work from the early 1950’s

Leaves1954

Yayoi Kusama in her room at her parents’ house, 1957

“Infinity Nets”Yayoi painting in her New York Studio, 1958

“No. 2” 1959.

Painted canvas black, then white washed it and painted white “nets”Sold in November 2008 for almost $5.75 Million; highest price paid for living female artist’s work

More Infinity Nets

“With out beginning, end or center” -Yayoi Kusama

Canvases were sometimes replaced by walls, floors, ceilings, sculptures and people

Flames

“Bust Out Happening”

Sheep MeadowCentral Park

1969

“Obliteration by dots” 1960’s

Kasuma Fashions1970

“Self Portrait” 1999

Naoshima Island, Japan1994