2013 Yayoi Kusama Art Exhibition Print. Printed in United States on matte paper by The Broad Museum, Los Angeles. Featuring Kusama's 'Infinity Mirrored Room - The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away'. Archival pigment prints on Lasal Moab paper.

Size: 20”H x 30”W. 

Condition: Excellent condition.

About the Artist - Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist born in 1929, celebrated as one of the most provocative avant-garde voices of our time. Her work spans painting, sculpture, performance, and installation, exploring themes of psychology, feminism, obsession, and infinity.

Kusama began experiencing vivid hallucinations as early as ten years old incl. flashing lights, fields of dots, and flowers that would speak to her. Patterns in fabric would come alive and engulf her, a process she calls "self-obliteration." Rather than suppress these visions, she poured them into her art. 

When Kusama arrived in America in 1958, she promised herself she would "conquer New York City." She did. But the art world didn't always return the favor. Andy Warhol visited her 1963 show and praised it enthusiastically, then went on to cover gallery walls with repeating images himself, culminating in his famous 1966 "Cow Wallpaper." She also staged provocative "happenings" public performances where participants protested the Vietnam War naked and covered in polka dots. She even crashed the 1966 Venice Biennale without an invitation, staging her own guerrilla exhibition outside the official gates. 

Kusama returned to Japan in 1973 and voluntarily checked herself into a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo, where she still lives today by choice, working from a studio just steps away. Now 96, she is the world's top-selling female artist and the most-visited living artist by museum attendance. Her dots were never just decoration. They were, and remain, a way of staying alive.