Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, the world's top-selling female artist, and the world's most successful living artist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yayoi Kusama has received more than 5,132,345 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Yayoi Kusama is the 107th most popular painter (up from 151st in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Japan (up from 44th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Painter.

Yayoi Kusama is most famous for her polka dot paintings and sculptures. She is also known for her obsessive compulsive disorder, which she has been struggling with since she was a child.