Yayoi kusama biography of michael

Japanese artist and writer (born 1929)

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Yayoi kusama biography of michael

For the film director, see Karyn 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 she 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,^[1] the world's top-selling female artist,^[2] and the world's most successful living artist.^[3] Her work influenced that of her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.

Kusama was raised in Matsumoto, and trained at the Kyoto City University of Arts for a year in