|
|
Yayoi Kusama Biography
|
 |
 |
|
1929 |
|
Born on March 22nd in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-ken, Japan
|
|
1948 |
|
Entered senior class at the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts & Crafts
|
|
1948 - 1951 |
|
Studied at the Arts and Crafts School, Kyoto
|
|
1957 |
|
In November, moved to America; lived in Seattle
|
|
1957 - 1958 |
|
Studied at the Art Students' League, New York
|
|
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.
|
|
1960 |
|
Immigrated to the United States
|
|
1963 |
|
Granted permanent residence status in the United States; naturalized 1966
|
|
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
|
|
|
| Selected Exhibitions |
|
|
|
2008
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Mirrored Years, Museums Boijmans Van Beuningen
|
|
2008
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
|
|
2007
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
|
|
2007
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
|
|
2007
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession - Dots Transformed into Love, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany / WIELS, Brussel, Belgium,(13 Sep.2007-18 Nov.2007)
|
|
2006 - 2007
|
|
Infinity Nets 2006, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
|
|
2006
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
|
|
2006
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Iwami Art Museum, Shimane, Japan
|
|
2006
|
|
Yayoi Kusama solo exhibition, YAYOI in FOREVER, Forever Museum of Contemporary Art gallery, Akita, Japan
|
|
2006
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Arndt&Partner, Berlin
|
|
2006
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Metamorphosis, Galleria Civica Modena, Italy
|
|
2006
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
|
|
2006
|
|
Crimson Eye, Piece Unique, Paris
|
|
2005
|
|
Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan
|
|
2005
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Eight Places for Burning Soul, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
|
|
2005
|
|
Yayoi Kusama 60's Fashion, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
|
|
2005
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Sailing the Sea of Infinity, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
|
|
2005
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Furniture by Graf, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano
|
|
2005
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Studio Guenzani, Milano
|
|
2005
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Partl:Print1980-1983/Painting(recent work), Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Partll:Print1994-2005/Painting(recent work)/Objet
|
|
2005
|
|
Yayoi Kusama The Place for My Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
|
|
2005
|
|
Yayoi Kusama KA!, 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
|
|
2005
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Jean Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
|
|
2005
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
|
|
2005
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Exhibition, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
|
|
2005
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
|
|
2004
|
|
KUSAMATRIX, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
|
|
2004
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Nets 1959-1999, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
|
|
2004
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
|
|
2004
|
|
KUSAMATRIX, Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan
|
|
2004
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
|
|
2004
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Colorist, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
|
|
2003
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Prints & Pumpkin Ceramic Object Exhibition, Jean Art Center, Seoul, Korea
|
|
2003
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan
|
|
2003
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Prints, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
|
|
2003
|
|
Yayoi Kusama-Beyond the Labyrinth, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan /Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido (20 Sep.2003-24 Nov.2003)
|
|
2003
|
|
Yayoi Kusama LOVE FOREVER, Fabian & Claude Water Galerie, Zurich
|
|
2003
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, J. Johnson Gallery, Florida
|
|
2003
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Piece Unique, Paris
|
|
2003
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
|
|
2003
|
|
Paintings, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Solitude of the Earth, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Mixed Media, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Silkscreen, Mubanso, Nagano, Japan
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Masuda City Museum, Shimane, Japan
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Inoue, Nagano, Japan
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Book cellar amus, Osaka, Japan
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama/Furniture, graf, Osaka, Japan
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Permanent Collection, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Dot paradise in Shangri-La, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Mubanso, Nagano, Japan
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Bass Museum, Miami, U.S.A.
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Galeria DECO, Sao Paulo
|
|
2002
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
|
|
2001
|
|
Death of an Illusion, Piece Unique, Paris
|
|
2001
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan
|
|
2001
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
|
|
2001
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Studio Guenzani, Milan
|
|
2000
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Serpentine Gallery, London
|
|
2000
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Piece Unique, Paris
|
|
2000
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Prints, Mubanso, Nagano, Japan
|
|
2000
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Early Drawings, from the Collection of Richard Castellane, The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey / Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 3 Dec.2000-28 Jan.2001 / Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario, 22 Feb.-8 Apr.2001 / Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, 6 Oct.2001-6 Jan.2002 / Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, 21 Sep.-1 Dec.2000
|
|
2000
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Recent Works, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
|
|
2000
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Jean Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
|
|
2000
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Le consortium, Dijon, France / Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris, 13 Feb.-19 May.2001 / KUNSTHALLEN BRANDTS ÆDEFABRIK, Denmark, 12 Jun.2001- / Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France, 5 Oct.2001-6 Jan.2002 / KUNSTHALLE Wien, Vienna, Jan.2002- / Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea, 15.Feb.-28.Apr .2003 / Artsonje Museum, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea, 4.Jul-28.sep.2003
|
|
1999
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Retrospective Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, (April 29 - July 4) [continuation of Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama] (Retrospective consists of two parts: Part One focuses on her New York period; Part Two examines work created in Tokyo)
|
|
1999
|
|
Beyond My Illusion, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
|
|
1998
|
|
Cage Painting Women 1967-1970, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
|
|
1998
|
|
Self Obliteration, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
|
|
1998
|
|
Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
|
|
1997
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work and Paintings from the New York Years, Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, DC, (January 17 - February 28)
|
|
1997
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Kato Kyobundo, Osaka, (May 8 - 20)
|
|
1997
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Vision, The Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, (June 11 - July 30)
|
|
1997
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Prints, Gallery Olive, Tokyo, (July - December)
|
|
1997
|
|
Kusama's Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, (July 8 - August 7)
|
|
1997
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, (September 3 - October 1)
|
|
1997
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery East, Australia
|
|
1996 - 1997
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Repetition, Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, (December 13 - January 19)
|
|
1996 - 1997
|
|
Repetition, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
|
|
1996
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Olive, Tokyo, (February 14 - 28)
|
|
1996
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: A Panorama of My Youth, Media of Modern Art Contemporary Gallery (MOMA Contemporary), Fukuoka, (March 22 - April 27)
|
|
1996
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: The 1950s and 1960s, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, (May 3 - June 21)
|
|
1996
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Ten Paintings from the '60s to the Present, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, (May 23 - June 15)
|
|
1996
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Ouka Shorin, Nagano, (September 6 - 15)
|
|
1996
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, (September 17 - October 19)
|
|
1996
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Haruka, Tokyo, (October 8 - 20)
|
|
1995
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Matsumoto, (March 11 - 21)
|
|
1995
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: I Who Committed Suicide, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, (July 1 - August 5)
|
|
1995
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Recent Prints - Memorial Shot Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, “,” (July 10 - July 26)
|
|
1995
|
|
YU Contemporary Art, Yokohama, “Yayoi Kusama,” (November 11 - 19)
|
|
1995
|
|
77 Gallery, Tokyo, “Yayoi Kusama Etchings,” (December 4 - 14)
|
|
1994
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Gallery Kura, Matsumoto, (January 22 - 30)
|
|
1994
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Atelier Kan Gallery, Tokyo, (March 15 - 26)
|
|
1994
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Nagano, (March 16 - April 20)
|
|
1994
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano, (April 22 - May 22)
|
|
1994
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, (May 11 - 24)
|
|
1994
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: My Solitary Way to Death, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, (May 12 - June 30)
|
|
1994
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Orient Gallery, Tokyo, (May 30 - June 17)
|
|
1994
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Okayama Art Gallery, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, (June 1 - July)
|
|
1994
|
|
Novel: The Psychological Hospital of Ants published
|
|
1994
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Art Wing, Kanagawa, (July 2 - 16)
|
|
1994
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Chiyoda Gallery, Shizuoka, (September 26 - October 15)
|
|
1994
|
|
Kusama 1970s - Recent Works, Gallery Now, Toyama, (October 1 - 23)
|
|
1994
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Media of Modern Art Contemporary Gallery (MOMA Contemporary), Fukuoka, (October 1 - 29)
|
|
1993
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya, (January 16 - February 4)
|
|
1993
|
|
Ham Collection: Yayoi Kusama 1952 – 1993, Gallery Ham, Nagoya, (February 6 - March 6)
|
|
1993
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, (May 21 - June 7)
|
|
1993
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome, (June 1 - September 30)
|
|
1993
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Cardazzo, Venice, (June)
|
|
1993
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallerie d'Arte del Naviglio, Venice, Italy, (June 10 - September 30)
|
|
1993
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, The 45th Venice Biennale, Japanese Pavillion, Venice, (June 13 - October 10)
|
|
1993
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Shuyu Gallery, Tokyo, (June 14 - June 30)
|
|
1993
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Now, Toyama, (July 14 - July 30)
|
|
1993
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Tomita, Hiroshima, (July 29 - August 10)
|
|
1993
|
|
Prints exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum
|
|
1993
|
|
Novel: New York Story published
|
|
1993
|
|
Infinity of Space and Light in the 1950s and 1960s: Yayoi Kusama from the collection of Richard Castellane, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, Esquire (November)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Art Gallery K2, Tokyo, (January 9 - 28)
|
|
1992
|
|
Novel: Lost in Swampland, published (January)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Aries, Tokyo, (March 16 - 28)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Mominoki, Tochigi, (March 16 - 31)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Ouka Shorin, Nagano, (March)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, (May 13 - 26)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Print Works, Collection of prints, published (May)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Takeuchi, Aichi, (May)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Art Gallery K2, Tokyo, (July)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, (July)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Esprit-Nouveau, Okayama, (July)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Toki, Hokkaido, (July)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMA Contemporary), Fukuoka, (September 1 - 26)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, (September 16 - 29)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Lamia, Tokyo, (September 24 - October 10)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Bursting Galaxies, Sogetsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, (September 21 - October 31)
|
|
1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Sho Art Gallery, Fukushima, (September)
|
|
1991 - 1992
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Athens, Osaka, (December 18 - January 15)
|
|
1991
|
|
Nabis Gallery, Tokyo, Kusama's Collage 1953-86 (January 8 - 19)
|
|
1991
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Art Gallery K2, Tokyo, 1953-1990 (February 1 - 16)
|
|
1991
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Media of Modern Art Contemporary (MOMA Contemporary), Fukuoka, (March 12 - April 12)
|
|
1991
|
|
Performance Self-Obliteration Tokyo Art Expo 1991, Pre-Event, Ginza Sony Building, Tokyo, Japan (March)
|
|
1991
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Tokyo Art Expo 1991, Fuji Television Gallery Booth, The Tokyo International Trade Center at Harumi, Tokyo, (March)
|
|
1991
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, (March)
|
|
1991
|
|
Novel: The Foxgloves of Central Park, published (April)
|
|
1991
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Vinci, Gunma, (April 23 - June 30)
|
|
1991
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, (May 30 - June 12)
|
|
1991
|
|
Between Heaven and Earth, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, (June 4 - July 5)
|
|
1991
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, (June 15 - 22)
|
|
1991
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Paintings • Prints • Objects, Oka Shorin, Nagano, (June 28 - July 2)
|
|
1991
|
|
Gallery Lamia, Tokyo, “Yayoi Kusama,” (September 27 - October 11)
|
|
1991
|
|
YU Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, “Yayoi Kusama,” (November 13 - 27)
|
|
1991
|
|
Gallery Ashibi-sha, Saitama, “Yayoi Kusama,”(December)
|
|
1990
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Shinon Nishiwaki Gallery, Kanagawa, (January)
|
|
1990
|
|
Novel: Angels in Cape Cod, published (February)
|
|
1990
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, (April 15 - 22)
|
|
1990
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Fine Art Hiiragi, Kagoshima, (April)
|
|
1990
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Kyouni Gallery, Tokyo, (May 7 - 26)
|
|
1990
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Chikugo Gallery, Tokyo, (June 20 - July 1)
|
|
1990
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Kyouni Gallery, Tokyo, (October)
|
|
1990
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kosai, Tokyo, (October)
|
|
1989 - 1990
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Center of International Contemporary Arts, New York, September 27 - January 31)
|
|
1989 - 1990
|
|
In Context: Yayoi Kusama, Soul Burning Flashes, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, (November 5 - January 7)
|
|
1989 - 1990
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, (December 26 - January 7)
|
|
1989
|
|
Novel, Aching Chandelier, published (January)
|
|
1989
|
|
Novel: Christopher Homosexual Brothel, republished on tenth anniversary (March)
|
|
1989
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Recent Prints, Objects, Paintings, Gallery Ikeda Art, Tokyo, (May 22 - June 3)
|
|
1989
|
|
Novel: Double Suicide at Sakuragazuka, published
|
|
1989
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, (June 8 - 18)
|
|
1989
|
|
Published collected poems, Distress Like This, (September)
|
|
1988
|
|
Novel: Between Heaven and Earth, published (May)
|
|
1988
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, (June 3 - 25)
|
|
1988
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
|
|
1988
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, (June)
|
|
1988
|
|
Hakone Open Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan (July 1 - September 7)
|
|
1988
|
|
Novel: Woodstock Phallus Cutter, published
|
|
1987
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, (March 3 - March 29)
|
|
1987
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Chicago International Art Exposition, (December)
|
|
1986
|
|
Prints by Yayoi Kusama, Tamagawa Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, (March 27 - April 1)
|
|
1986
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Musée Municipal, Dôle, France, (March 21 - May 31)
|
|
1986
|
|
Infinity ¥ Explosion, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, (June 6 - 28)
|
|
1986
|
|
Book of works: Yayoi Kusama: Driving Image published
|
|
1986
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Nabis Gallery, Tokyo, (July 21 - August 9)
|
|
1986
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Christian Chenau, Paris, (September)
|
|
1985
|
|
Performance: Flower of Basara, Kuhonbutsu Joshin-ji Temple, Tokyo
|
|
1985
|
|
Novel: The Burning of St. Marks Church published (May)
|
|
1985
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Missoni Boutique at Yurakucho-Marion Seibu, Tokyo, (July)
|
|
1984
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Gallery Stella, Fukouka, (February)
|
|
1984
|
|
Kusama's Self-Obliteration, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, (April 20 - May 16); In conjunction with this exhibition was an interview, "Junji Ito vs. Yayoi Kusama" and a performance at Video Gallery SCAN, 83 Nets Obliteration at SCAN
|
|
1983
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Tubaki Gallery, Chiba, Tokyo, (January 28 - February 9)
|
|
1983
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Encounter of Souls, Jardin de Luseine, Fuji Television Gallery
|
|
1983
|
|
Shigeo Anzai [a photographer] vs. Yayoi Kusama, Harajuku, Tokyo, (Exhibition included works from the 1960s to 1982; slides & the film Kusama's Polka Dot Obliteration (February 17 - 26)
|
|
1983
|
|
Screened films Self-Obliteration (1967) and Flower Orgy
|
|
1983
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Supplement Gallery, Tokyo, (February 17 - February 23)
|
|
1983
|
|
Polka Dots Obliteration, Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo, (1967 Film) and Flower Orgy Show, (1968 Film) (February 19)
|
|
1983
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: 1950-1970, Internationale Galerij Ornis, The Hague, (June 18 - July 17)
|
|
1983
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kura, Nagano, (September 17 - 25)
|
|
1983
|
|
Books Rokusan, Nagano, “Yayoi Kusama,” (November 17 - 27)
|
|
1983
|
|
Novel: Christopher Homosexual Brothel published (December) (Awarded Tenth Literary Award for New Writers given by Magazine Kadokaw-can)
|
|
1983
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Prints and Drawings, Gallery Do ra pe, Kobe, (June 26 - July 3)
|
|
1982
|
|
Exhibition of Yayoi Kusama, Box Gallery, Nagoya, (January 9 - 30)
|
|
1982
|
|
Yayoi Kusama and Obsession, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, (March 16 - April 10)
|
|
1982
|
|
Box Art by Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kumo, Tokyo, (May 10 - 25)
|
|
1982
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Box Gallery, Nagoya, (May and July)
|
|
1982
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Manu, Akita, (August 8 - 30)
|
|
1982
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Orient Gallery, Tokyo, (September 6 - October 2)
|
|
1982
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan, (opened December 9)
|
|
1981
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Central Gallery, Chiba, (February 17 - 23)
|
|
1981
|
|
The Puzzle Art of Yayoi Kusama, Shibuya Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, (February 26 - March 3)
|
|
1981
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kumo, Tokyo, (November)
|
|
1980
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Toho Gallery, Osaka, (May 8 - 17)
|
|
1980
|
|
Unknown Works by Yayoi Kusama: The Flash That Burns Grass, American Center, Tokyo, (May 27 - June 5); and film screening, Self-Obliteration, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo, Yayoi Kusama: Self-Obliteration of Nets and Polka Dots, (July 1 - 15)
|
|
1980
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Soaring from the Dark and Bright Swamp, Nagano Tokyu Department Store, Nagano, (August 14 - 20)
|
|
1980
|
|
Gallery Toshin, Tokyo, “Yayoi Kusama: Infinity and Repetition of Nets and Polka Dots,” (November 18 - 28)
|
|
1979
|
|
Yayoi Kusama Exhibition, Chungeki Art Salon, Matsumoto, (January)
|
|
1979
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Exhibition of New Works, Inoue Fourth Floor Gallery, Matsumoto, (November 29 - December 4)
|
|
1978 - 1979
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto Wall of Commerce and Industry Building, Nagano, (October 23 - January 25)
|
|
1978
|
|
Novel: Manhattan Suicide Addict published (March)
|
|
1977
|
|
Transport Building, Tokyo, Yayoi Kusama & Shoichi Ito (April 22 - 28)
|
|
1977
|
|
Yayoi Kusama; Collages, Gallery Nikko, Tokyo, (June)
|
|
1976
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Art, a Requiem for Death and Life, Osaka Formes Gallery, Osaka, (August 9 - 19)
|
|
1975
|
|
Message of Death from Hades, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, (December 1 - 13)
|
|
1971
|
|
Film: Kusama's Self-Obliteration , First Annual New York Erotic Film Festival, New York (November)
|
|
1970
|
|
Self-Obliteration - An Environmental Performance, New School for Social Research, New York, (February)
|
|
1970
|
|
The Republic (designed costumes), The Free Store Theatre, New York, (April)
|
|
1969
|
|
Happening, Iwaibashi Park, Tokyo
|
|
1969
|
|
Nude Happening, Before the Imperial Palace, Tokyo
|
|
1969
|
|
Body Painting Happening, Bungei Shunju Company, Tokyo
|
|
1969
|
|
Bust Out Happening, Sheepsmeadow, Central Park, New York, (April)
|
|
1969
|
|
Bust Out Happening, Central Park, New York
|
|
1969
|
|
Happening, Blue Dome discotheque, New York
|
|
1969
|
|
Grand Orgy to Awaken the Dead Happening, Museum of Modern Art, New York, (August)
|
|
1969
|
|
Kusama Fashions Company, Establishes, New York
|
|
1968
|
|
Screened Self-Obliteration at various New York City rental spaces including The Gymnasium (January), Palm Gardens (January) and Blue Dome (February)
|
|
1968
|
|
Films Flower Orgy and Homosexual Orgy acted and directed by Kusama were produced and shown on TV throughout the United States
|
|
1968
|
|
The Anatomic Explosion, a series of Happenings, staged in front of the statue of George Washington across from the New York Stock Exchange, the Statue of Liberty, St. Marks Church, the Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park, the United Nations Building, the United Federation of Teachers on Wall Street, the Board of Elections headquarters and on the subway (July - November)
|
|
1968
|
|
Nude performance at the discotheque, Electric Circus, New York
|
|
1968
|
|
Love in Festival, Central Park, New York
|
|
1968
|
|
Established: Kusama Enterprises Inc
|
|
1968
|
|
Take A Subway Ride from Jail to Paradise Happening, (November)
|
|
1968
|
|
Weekly Flesh-In, Body-painting stage, Nirvana Headshop, New York
|
|
1968
|
|
Naked Demonstration/Anatomic Explosion Happening, Wall Street, New York
|
|
1968
|
|
Body Painting Happening, Avanti Galleries, New York, (August)
|
|
1968
|
|
Staged a protest in front of the Board of Elections, New York
|
|
1968
|
|
Homosexual Wedding Happening, Church of Self-Obliteration, New York, (November)
|
|
1968
|
|
Nude Happening, the Allan Burke Show, New York (November)
|
|
1968
|
|
Nude Happening, the Allan Burke Show, New York (November)
|
|
1968
|
|
Naked Happenings, Fillmore East, New York, (December 6-7)
|
|
1968
|
|
Exhibition of works by Yayoi Kusama from 1963 to 1965, Galerie Mickery, Loenersloot, The Netherlands and Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, (June 9 - July 7)
|
|
1968
|
|
Mona Lisa Happening, Kusama's Studio, New York
|
|
1968
|
|
Orgy Happening by the Soviet Flag, New York
|
|
1968
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Galerie Lichter, Frankfurt, (October)
|
|
1968
|
|
Nixon Homosexual Orgy Happening
|
|
1968
|
|
Burn the Panties Happening, New York
|
|
1968
|
|
The Horse by Polka Dots Happening, Central Park, New York
|
|
1968
|
|
Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan
|
|
1968
|
|
Love Happening, (December)
|
|
1967
|
|
Self-Obliteration: An Audio-Visual-Light Performance Happening, Black Gate Theater, New York, (January and June)
|
|
1967
|
|
Serielle Formationen, Studio Galerie, Frankfurt, West Germany, (May)
|
|
1967
|
|
Horse Play (Grouptwoonetwo) Happening ,Inter-Arts Festival, Washington Square Park, New York, (July)
|
|
1967
|
|
Horse Play, Self Obliteration by Kusama: An Audio-Visual-Light Performance Happening, Woodstock, NY, (July)
|
|
1967
|
|
New York, Body Festivals Happenings, Washington Square Park and Tompkins Square Park, (Each Saturday & Sunday throughout summer)
|
|
1967
|
|
Self-Obliteration was awarded a prize at the 4th International Experimental Film Competition, Belgium. The film won 2nd prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI. It was introduced at the 2nd Maryland Film Festival and at the Whitney Museum of American Art's New American Film Makers series: Steps Towards a New Consciousness
|
|
1967
|
|
Kusama Tea Dancers Happening, Electric Circus, New York
|
|
1967
|
|
Body-Painting Party Happening, Cheetah Club, New York
|
|
1967
|
|
Love Room, Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, (November)
|
|
1967
|
|
Happenings with Polka Dots, performed throughout Holland (November)
|
|
1967
|
|
Body Festival Happening, Chrysler Art Museum, Provincetown, MA, (September)
|
|
1966
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Driving Image Show, Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan, (January 26 - February 9); (traveled to: Galerie M. E. Thelen, Essen, West Germany (February 29 May 27)
|
|
1966
|
|
Kusama's Peep Show: Endless Love Show, Castellane Gallery, New York,
|
|
1966
|
|
Her film Self-Obliteration was shown on TV in Germany, Holland, Belgium and Italy. Released in theaters in Paris
|
|
1966
|
|
Nova Gallery, Boston (June)
|
|
1965
|
|
Solo exhibition and Happening, Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, MA
|
|
1965
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, (June)
|
|
1965
|
|
Floor Show, Castellane Gallery, New York, (November)
|
|
1964
|
|
Kusama: Driving Image Show, Castellane Gallery, New York, (April 21 - May 9)
|
|
1963 - 1964
|
|
One Thousand Boats Show – Kusama, Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York, (December 17 - January 11)
|
|
1963
|
|
Driving Image, Castellane Gallery, New York, (April)
|
|
1962
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Robert Hanamura Gallery, Chicago, (March - April)
|
|
1961
|
|
Recent Painting: Yayoi Kusama, Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, (May 2-27)
|
|
1961
|
|
Yayoi Kusama: Watercolors, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC, “,” (November 21 - December 23)
|
|
1960
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC, (April 19 - May 14)
|
|
1959
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, First solo exhibition in New York, Brata Gallery, New York, (October 9 - 29)
|
|
1959
|
|
Recent Paintings by Yayoi Kusama, Nova Gallery, Boston, (November 23 -December 12)
|
|
1957
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, (December 8 - 28)
|
|
1955
|
|
“Yayoi Kusama, Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo, Exhibition: (January 21 - 31)
|
|
1955
|
|
Yayoi Kusama, Kyuryudo Gallery, Tokyo, Exhibition:(March 28 - April 2)
|
|
1954
|
|
Mimatsu Shobo Gallery, Tokyo (August)
|
|
1954
|
|
Eight Japanese Women Artists, Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo, (October)
|
|
1954
|
|
Shirokiya Department Store, Tokyo (February 27 - March 3)
|
|
1952
|
|
First solo exhibition, First Community Center, Matsumoto, Nagano (March)
|
|
1952
|
|
Second solo exhibition, First Community Center, Matsumoto, Nagano (October)
|
|
|
|
|
| Links to further information |
|
|
|
|
|