1929
Born in Matsumoto, Nagano.
1948
Completed the Kyoto Municipal Arts and Crafts School
Lives in Tokyo.

Solo Exhibition
2008
"Yayoi Kusama", Victoria Miro Gallery, London, U.K.
"Yayoi Kusama", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"YAYOI KUSAMA DOTS OBSESSION", la Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
"Yayoi Kusama", Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
2007
"Yayoi Kusama", Victoria Miro Gallery, London, U.K.
"Dots Obsession - Soul of Pumpkin", HARBOUR CITY, Hong Kong, China
"YAYOI KUSAMA", Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
"YAYOI KUSAMA, Dots Obsession - Dots Transformed into Love", Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, / WIELS, Brussel, Belgium
2006
"Yayoi Kusama", Iwami Art Museum, Shimane
"YAYOI in FOREVER", Forever Museum of Contemporary Art gallery, Akita
"Yayoi Kusama", Arndt&Partner, Berlin,Germany
"YAYOI KUSAMA Metamorphosis", Galleria Civica Modena, Italy
"Crimson Eye", Piece Unique, Paris, France
"YAYOI KUSAMA", Robert Miller Gallery, New York,U.S.A.
2005
"YAYOI KUSAMA", Jean Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
"Yayoi Kusama 60's Fashion", MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka
"YAYOI KUSAMA", Studio Guenzani, Milano, Italy
"YAYOI KUSAMA", Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2004
"Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art / Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto / Matsumoto City Museum of Art , Matsumoto
"KUSAMATRIX", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo / Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido
2003
"YAYOI KUSAMA", Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany / Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
"Yayoi Kusama", Piece Unique, Paris, France
"KUSAMA YAYOI LOVE FOREVER", Fabian & Claude Water Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
"Yayoi Kusama-Beyond the Labyrinth, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa / Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido
2002
"Yayoi Kusama", Bass Museum, Miami, U.S.A.
"Yayoi Kusama", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"Yayoi Kusama Dot paradise in Shangri-La", Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima
"Yayoi Kusama Permanent Collection", Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano
"Yayoi Kusama/Furniture", graf, Osaka
"Yayoi Kusama", Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
"Yayoi Kusama", Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
"Yayoi Kusama Solitude of the Earth", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2001
"Yayoi Kusama", Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
"Death of an Illusion", Piece Unique, Paris, France
2000
"Yayoi Kusama", Le consortium, Dijon, France / Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris, France / KUNSTHALLEN BRANDTS ÆDEFABRIK, Denmark / Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France / KUNSTHALLE Wien, Vienna, Austria / Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea / Artsonje Museum, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea
"Yayoi Kusama Early Drawings, from the Collection of Richard Castellane", The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S.A./ Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, U.S.A. / Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada / Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, U.S.A. / Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, U.S.A.
"Yayoi Kusama", Piece Unique, Paris, France
"Yayoi Kusama", Serpentine Gallery, London, U.K.
1999
"Yayoi Kusama: Installations", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"Message from Yayoi Kusama", Matsumoto Municipal Museum, Nagano
"Yayoi Kusama Retrospective", Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [continuation of Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama] (Retrospective consists of two parts: Part One focuses on her New York period; Part Two examines work created in Tokyo)
1998
"Yayoi Kusama", Piece Unique, Paris, France
"Yayoi Kusama", Victoria Miro, London, U.K.
"Yayoi Kusama Now", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"Love Forever : YAYOI KUSAMA 1958-1968", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A./ The Museum Modern Art, New York, U.S.A. / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
1997
"Kusama's Kusama", Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
"Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Vision", The Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.
1996
"Photo Collage Repetitive Vision", Media of Modern Art Contemporary Gallery,Fukuoka
"Yayoi Kusama: Recent Work", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"Yayoi Kusama: Ten Paintings from the '60s to the Present", Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
"Yayoi Kusama: The 1950s and 1960s", Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"Yayoi Kusama: A Panorama of My Youth", Media of Modern Art Contemporary Gallery Fukuoka
1995
"Yayoi Kusama: I Who Committed Suicide", Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
1994
"Yayoi Kusama: My Solitary Way to Death", Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
"Yayoi Kusama", Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Nagano
"Yayoi Kusama", Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano
1993
"Yayoi Kusama", Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy
"Yayoi Kusama", Galleria Cardazzo, Venice, Italy
"Yayoi Kusama, Gallerie d'Arte del Naviglio, Venice, Italy
"Yayoi Kusama", The 45th Venice Biennale, Japanese Pavillion, Venice, Italy
"Prints exhibition", Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
"Infinity of Space and Light in the 1950s and 1960s: Yayoi Kusama from the collection of Richard Castellane", Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, U.S.A.
1992
"Yayoi Kusama", Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
"Yayoi Kusama: Bursting Galaxies", Sogetsu Museum of Art, Tokyo
1991
"Kusama's Collage 1953-86", Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
"Yayoi Kusama", Media of Modern Art Contemporary, Fukuoka
"Yayoi Kusama", Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
"Between Heaven and Earth", Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
1989
"Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective", Center of International Contemporary Arts, New York, U.S.A.
"Yayoi Kusama, Soul Burning Flashes", Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, U.K.
1988
"Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes", Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
1987
"Yayoi Kusama", Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka
1986
"Yayoi Kusama", Musée de Beaux-Arts de Calas, Cabriès, France / Musée Municipal, Dôle, France
"Infinity ∞ Explosion", Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
"Yayoi Kusama", Galerie Christian Chenau, Paris, France
1984
"Kusama's Self-Obliteration", Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
1983
"Yayoi Kusama: Encounter of Souls", Jardin de Luseine, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
"Yayoi Kusama", Supplement Gallery, Tokyo
"Polka Dots Obliteration, Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo
"Yayoi Kusama: 1950-1970", Internationale Galerij Ornis, The Hague, Netherlands
1982
"Yayoi Kusama and Obsession", Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
"Yayoi Kusama", Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy
1980
"Unknown Works by Yayoi Kusama: The Flash That Burns Grass", American Center, Tokyo
1976
"Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Art", a Requiem for Death and Life, Osaka Formes Gallery, Tokyo
1975
"Message of Death from Hades", Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
1968
"Yayoi Kusama", Galerie Lichter, Frankfurt, Germany
"Exhibition of works by Yayoi Kusama from 1963 to 1965", Galerie Mickery,Loenersloot, The Netherlands / Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, Netherlands
1967
"Love Room", Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, Netherlands
1966
"Yayoi Kusama: Driving Image Show", Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy / Galerie M. E. Thelen, Essen, Germany
"Kusama's Peep Show: Endless Love Show", Castellane Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1965
"Solo exhibition and Happening", Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, U.S.A.
"Yayoi Kusama", Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, Netherlands
"Floor Show", Castellane Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"Kusama: Driving Image Show", Castellane Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1964
"One Thousand Boats Show – Kusama", Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"Driving Image", Castellane Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1961
"Recent Painting: Yayoi Kusama", Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"Yayoi Kusama: Watercolors", Gres Gallery, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
1960
"Yayoi Kusama", Gres Gallery, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
1959
"Yayoi Kusama", Brata Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"Recent Paintings by Yayoi Kusama", Nova Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
1957
"Yayoi Kusama, Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, U.S.A.
1955
"Yayoi Kusama", Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo
"Yayoi Kusama", Kyuryudo Gallery, Tokyo
1954
"Yayoi Kusama", Mimatsu Shobo Gallery, Tokyo
1952
"Yayoi Kusama", First solo exhibition, First Community Center, Matsumoto, Nagano

Selected Group Exhibition
2008
"Japan! Culture+Hyper Culture", The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
"YAYOI KUSAMA, STEVEN PARRINO, ANSELM REYLE", Gagosian Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"Akasaka Art Flower 2008", Akasaka area, Tokyo (Kusama's exhibition: Tokyo Midtown)
"Liverpool Biennial International 08: MADE UP", Pilkingtons Warehouse, Liverpool, U.K
2007
"Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan", Long March Project, "798" Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China / Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
"NAOSHIMA STANDARD 2", Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa
2006
"Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era", Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K. / Schirn
Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany / Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria / Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.
2003
"Biennale D'art Contemporain de Lyron 2003", Lyon, France
"Lille 2004", Lille, France
2002
"Expo.02, Instant and Eternity", Mora, Switzerland
"Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 2002", Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia
2001
"Century City", Tate Modern, London, U.K.
"les snnees Pop", Centre Pomoidou, Paris, France
"Collaborations with Parkett 1984 to Now", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.
"International Triennale of Contemporary Art YOKOHAMA 2001", Pacifico Yokohama Convention Hall, Red Brick Warehause No.1, Yokohama
"Silver", Leo Castelli, New York, U.S.A.
1998
"Out of Action 1949-1979 Between Performance and Object", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A. / MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria / Museu d'art Contemporani Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain / Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation", MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts, U.S.A. / Miami Art Museum, U.S.A. / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.
"The 24th Bienal de Sao Paulo", Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Taipei Art fair International When East Meets West", Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
1997
"Art Fashion", Guggenheim Museum, Soho, New York, U.S.A.
"Yayoi Kusama: A Snake; Andy Warhol: Silver Clouds", D'Amerio Terras, New York, U.S.A.
1996
"New Installations", Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
1995
"Japan Today", Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
"Now Here", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
"L' informe: Mode d'emploi", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1994
"Japanese Art after 1945: Against the Sky", Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama / Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A. / San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.
1991
"Yayoi Kusama, Tokyo Art Expo 1991", The Tokyo International Trade Center at Harumi, Tokyo
1990
"AERONART", Grand Palais / CNIT / Loire Castles / Kronenbourg Gallery, Paris, France
1977
"The Third Moscow International Art Exhibition, Moscow, Russia
1971
"Cage/Painting/Woman", Internationale Galerji Orez, The Hague, Netherlands
1966
"33rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1962
"Tentoonstelling Nul", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1961
"Whitney Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.
1960
"Monochrome Malerei", Stadtisches Museum in Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany
1955
"The International Watercolor Exhibition:18th Biennial", Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S.A.

Public Collection
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
Nagoya city Art Museum, Aichi
Chiba city Museum of Art, Chiba
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum, Fukuoka
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Museum of Modern Art, Kobe
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki
Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano
Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi
Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Akron Art Museum, Ohio, U.S.A.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
Allen Memorial Art MUseum, Oberlin College, Ohio, U.S.A.
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.
Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A.
Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, U.S.A.
Brooklyn Museum Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
Center for International Contemporary Art, New York, U.S.A.
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A.
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, U.S.A.
Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse & Onondaga Country, Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.