1929 - Today
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.
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Among painters, Yayoi Kusama ranks 107 out of 1,421. Before her are William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Hans Memling, Oskar Kokoschka, Georges de La Tour, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Guido Reni. After her are Tamara de Lempicka, Ivan Aivazovsky, Simone Martini, Antonio da Correggio, Giorgio de Chirico, and Bronzino.
1825 - 1905
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 101
1435 - 1494
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 102
1886 - 1980
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 103
1593 - 1652
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 104
1880 - 1938
HPI: 70.54
Rank: 105
1575 - 1642
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 106
1929 - Present
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 107
1898 - 1980
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 108
1817 - 1900
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 109
1284 - 1344
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 110
1489 - 1534
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 111
1888 - 1978
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 112
1503 - 1572
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 113
Among people born in 1929, Yayoi Kusama ranks 17. Before her are Sergio Leone, Imre Kertész, Jacques Brel, Hassan II of Morocco, Max von Sydow, and Jean Baudrillard. After her are Frank Gehry, Hafizullah Amin, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Christopher Plummer, Irene Papas, and Michael Ende.
1929 - 1989
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 11
1929 - 2016
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 12
1929 - 1978
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 13
1929 - 1999
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 14
1929 - 2020
HPI: 70.69
Rank: 15
1929 - 2007
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 16
1929 - Present
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 17
1929 - Present
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 18
1929 - 1979
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 19
1929 - Present
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 20
1929 - 2021
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 21
1929 - 2022
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 22
1929 - 1995
HPI: 69.14
Rank: 23
Among people born in Japan, Yayoi Kusama ranks 28 out of 6,048. Before her are Yoko Ono (1933), Hideki Tojo (1884), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Olivia de Havilland (1916), Hiroo Onoda (1922), and Hattori Hanzō (1542). After her are Osamu Tezuka (1928), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Kane Tanaka (1903), Gichin Funakoshi (1868), and Sadako Sasaki (1943).
1933 - Present
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 22
1884 - 1948
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 23
1583 - 1612
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 24
1916 - 2020
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 25
1922 - 2014
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 26
1542 - 1597
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 27
1929 - Present
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 28
1928 - 1989
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 29
1941 - Present
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 30
1892 - 1927
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 31
1903 - 2022
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 32
1868 - 1957
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 33
1943 - 1955
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 34
Among painters born in Japan, Yayoi Kusama ranks 1. After her are Utamaro (1753), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Suzuki Harunobu (1725), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Yoshitoshi (1839), Kunisada (1786), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Takashi Murakami (1962), and Ogata Kōrin (1658).
1929 - Present
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 1
1753 - 1806
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 2
1797 - 1861
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 3
1886 - 1968
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 4
1725 - 1770
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 5
1420 - 1506
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 6
1839 - 1892
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 7
1786 - 1865
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 8
1618 - 1694
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 9
1931 - Present
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 10
1962 - Present
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 11
1658 - 1716
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 12