Yayoi Kusama

Wander through Yayoi Kusama's immersive installations at Tate Modern in London.

Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern

One of Japan's best-known living artists, Yayoi Kusama's work spans more than six decades. This Tate Modern exhibition follows her career from early paintings of provincial Japan to the daring advances that followed.

Kusama is known for her immersive artworks, and the exhibition features a series of rooms covered in hallucinatory polka dots, mirrors and more.

About Yayoi Kusama

Kusama was born in Matsumoto, Japan in 1929. She trained in traditional Japanese painting while also exploring the European and American avant-garde.

After moving to the United States in the late 1950s, Kusama forged her own direction in sculpture and installation, adopting techniques of montage and soft sculpture, which influenced artists including Andy Warhol.

In the 1960s Kusama moved from painting, sculpture and collage to installations, films and performances. In 1973 she returned to Japan, where she began a parallel career as a poet and novelist.

Highlights of the Yayoi Kusama Exhibition

Highlights of the Yayoi Kusama exhibition include:

• Infinity Mirrored Room – Filled with the Brilliance of Life 2011, Kusama's largest mirrored room to date, created especially for the show
• A group of Kusama's first Infinity Net paintings from her early years in New York
• Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show 1963, her first room installation
• A selection of Sex Obsession and Food Obsession Accumulation Sculptures dating from 1962 to 1968
• Kusama's Self-Obliteration 1968, a film capturing her period of experimental performance
• The Clouds 1984, a sculptural installation comprising 100 black and white cushions
• Heaven and Earth 1991, which features snake-like forms emerging from 40 boxes
• I'm Here, but Nothing 2000, a dark space covered with fluorescent polka dots