Yayoi Kusama

YAYOI KUSAMA

Biography

1929

Born in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

1957

Travels to United States, New York City

Studies at Art Student League

1963

Acquired a permanent visa to the U.S.

Awards and Honors:

1967

The Fourth Belgium International Short Film Prize

The Second Ann Arbor Film Festival Prize

1982

Golden prize from the Italian Academy of Arts

1983

The 10th Literary Award for New Writers from the

"Yasei Jidai" published by Kadokawa Publishing Co.

in Tokyo, Japan

Major One-person Exhibitions:

1957

Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, WA

1959

Brata Gallery, New York, NY

Nova Gallery, Boston, MA

1960

Gres Gallery, Washington, DC

1961

Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, NY

Gres Gallery, Washington, DC

1962

Robert Hanamura Gallery, Chicago, IL

1963

Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York, NY

1964

Richard Castellane Gallery, New York, NY

1965

Orez Gallery, Hague, The Netherlands

Richard Castellane Gallery, New York, NY

1966

Naviglio Gallery, Milan, Italy

Richard Castellane Gallery, New York, NY

M.E. Thenlen Gallery, Essent, Germany

1967

Orez Gallery, Hague, The Netherlands

Chrysler Museum, Massachusetts

1968

Mickery Gallery, Holland, The Netherlands

Lichter Gallery, Germany

Naviglio Gallery, Milan, Italy

1971

Orez Gallery, Hague, The Netherlands

1982

Naviglio Gallery, Milan, Italy

1984

Ornis Gallery, Hague, The Netherlands

1986

Christian Chenequ Gallery, Paris, France

Calais Municipal Museum, France

1987

Dole Municipal Museum, France

Kita Kyushu Municipal Museum, Japan

Chicago Art International Art Expo

1988

Hakone Open Air Museum

1989

Center of International Contemporary Art, New York

Oxford Museum of Modern, Great Britian

1992

Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Niigata Municipal Museum, Japan

1993

Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, Italy

Naviglio Gallery, Venice, Italy

The 45th Venice Biennale, Japanese pavilion

1994

Shinano Museum, Japan

Komagane Kogen Museum, Japan

1996

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

1997

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1998

“Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968,” Los Angeles County

Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New

York.

2001

Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, December 2002.

2002

“Yayoi Kusama” Kunsthalle Wein im Museumsquartier, Wein,

Austria.

“Peep Show” Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, (9/12/02-1/17/03)

2003

“Yayoi Kusama”, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, (12/04/2002-

05/11/2003)

2006

“Yayoi Kusama,” Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany (9/16-10/21/06)

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1955

"The 18th International Watercolor Biennale,

representing Japan," Brooklyn, NY

1959

"The 20th International Watercolor Biennale,

representing the U.S.," Brooklyn, NY

1960

"Monochrome Painting Exhibition," Leverkusen

Municipal Museum, Germany

Group Show, Stephen Radich Gallery, New York

"Japanese Abstraction," Gres Gallery, Washington

"McGiniss Collection Show, De Cordova Museum, USA

1961

Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of Art, New York

"Avant-garde 61" Trier Municipal Museum, Germany

"International Painting 1960-61" Eschenbach,

Germany

1962

"Accrochangel 1962", Gallery A, The Netherlands

"Nul Exhibition" Amsterdame Municipal Museum,

The Netherlands

Pittsburgh International Contemporary Painting and

Sculpture Exhibition, Carnegie Hall, PA

"New Tendency Exhibition", Leiden State University

Musem, The Netherlands

"Anno 62", Venster Gallery, Rotterdam

Group show, Green Gallery, New York

Group show, Prague Gallery, Prague

1963

"New Work, Part I", Green Gallery, New York

"Travelling", PVI Gallery, New York

"Best of 1964", Southhampton, New York

"Mikro Zero", Nul Gallery, Rotterdam

"Micro New Realism", J Gallery, Paris

1965

"Aktuell 65", Aktuell Gallery, Bern

"Zero Avant-garde", Cavallino Gallery, Venice

"1963-65 Exhibition", Mickery Gallery, Holland

"White on White", De Cordova Museum, Massachusetts

"New Eye Show", Chrysler Museum, Massachusetts

"Multiplicity" Boston Contemporary Art Research

Institute, MA

1966

The 33rd Venice Biennale, Italy

"Objects Transformed", Museum of Modern Art,

New York

"Total Realism", Potsdam Gallery, Berlin

1967

"Objects Made in U.S.A.", Delta Gallery, Rotterdam

"Continuing Form Exhibition", Goethe University,

Frankfurt, Germany

1968

"Three Blind Mice Exhibition", Amsterdam Municipal

Museum, The Netherlands

1974

"Woman's Work: American Art '74", Philadelphia

Civic Center Museum

1977

"Improbable Furniture", Pennsylvania University

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

"The Third Moscow Biennale", representing Japan

1979

"Soft Art", Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland

1983

"Dada in Japan: Japan's Avant-garde Exhibition"

Dusseldorf Museum, Germany

"Painted Object-Painted", Herbert Palmer Gallery,

Los Angeles, CA

1985

"Japan's Avant-garde Art Exhibition: 1945-65",

Oxford Museum of Modern Art, England

1986

"Avant-garde Art of Japan: 1910-70",

Pompidou Center, Paris

1987

Becht Collection Exhibition, France

"Medusa's Magic", Vienna

1988

Permanent Collection Exhibition, Neuburger Museum,

New York

1989

"The 20th Middelheim Biennale: Japanese

Contemporary Sculpture", Middelheim Open Air

Museum, Belgium

"Exciting Art 89'", Queensland Museum, Australia

Group Show, Whitney Museum, New York

1994

"Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky",

travelling: Yokohama Museum of Art, Guggenheim

Museum, New York and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1995

"ARS 95'", Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland

"Division of Labor", Bronx Museum of Art

1996

Group Drawing Show, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY

Group Show, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY

2000

“Spot On,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England (2/9 - 3/10/00)

2006

“Women’s Work,” Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY

(3/22-4/15/06)

“Zero: International Avant-garde of the 50s and 60s”, Museum

Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany (4/9-7/9/06)

“Eco Lux: Art in the Light of Ecology,” Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA

(7/22-8/19/06)

“New Acquisition,” Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan (7/11-8/26/06)