Yayoi Kusama

*1929-2026 / Japan

Works

Solo exhibitions

Yayoi Kusama I Adore Myself

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
1 Apr 2017 – 21 Apr 2017
IN INFINITY

Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden (NO)
19 Feb 2016 – 15 May 2016
IN INFINITY

Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek (DK)
17 Sep 2015 – 24 Jan 2016
A Dream I Dreamed

MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (CN)
15 Dec 2013 – 30 Mar 2014
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Tate Modern, London (GB)
8 Feb 2012 – 20 May 2012
Eternity of Eternal Eternity

The National Museum of Art, Ôsaka (JP)
7 Jan 2012 – 8 Apr 2012
Look Now, See Forever

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
19 Nov 2011 – 11 Mar 2012
YAYOI KUSAMA

MNCARS - Museo REINA SOFIA, Madrid (ES)
11 May 2011 – 12 Sep 2011
Mirrored Years

Museum Contemporary Art, Sydney (AU)
24 Feb 2009 – 8 Jun 2009
Mirrored Years

Museum Boijmans Van Beun, Rotterdam (NL)
23 Aug 2008 – 19 Oct 2008
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Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (AU)
26 Apr 2007 – 19 May 2007
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ARNDT, Berlin (DE)
19 Sep 2006 – 21 Oct 2006
Eternity-Modernity

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Ar, Hiroshima (JP)
22 Feb 2005 – 17 Apr 2005
Dots Obsession

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (AU)
3 Feb 2005 – 26 Feb 2005
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The National Museum, Kyôto (JP)
6 Jan 2005 – 13 Feb 2005
Eternity-Modernity

Nat. Museum Modern Art, Tôkyô (JP)
26 Oct 2004 – 19 Dec 2004
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Ota Fine Arts, Tôkyô (JP)
13 Nov 2004 – 17 Dec 2004
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Zacheta National Gallery, Warszawa (PL)
6 Apr 2004 – 16 May 2004
Walking Piece, 1966

Sammlung Goetz, München (DE)
17 May 2003 – 9 Aug 2003

Group

Werke aus der Sammlung Goetz

Neues Museum, Nürnberg (DE)
27 Jun 2025 – 21 Sep 2025

with Pipilotti Rist
Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists

National Museum of Art, Seoul (KR)
3 Sep 2024 – 3 Mar 2025

with Arahmaiani, Nadiah Bamadhaj, Lee Bul, HE Chengyao, CAO Fei, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Amanda Heng, Hong Lee Hyun-Sook, Yee I-Lann, Mako Idemitsu, Mella Jaarsma, Bharti Kher …
Generations Part 2: Künstlerinnen im Dialog

Sammlung Goetz

Haus der Kunst, München (DE)
29 Jun 2018 – 3 Mar 2019

with Geta Bratescu, Tracey Emin, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Mona Hatoum, Ulrike Ottinger, Pipilotti Rist, Sam Taylor-Johnson (Wood), Rosemarie Trockel
Between Art & Fashion

Photographs from the Collection of Carla Sozzani

Newton Foundation, Berlin (DE)
2 Jun 2018 – 18 Nov 2018

with Berenice Abbott, David Bailey, Erwin Blumenfeld, Arthur Elgort, Hiro, William Klein, David LaChapelle, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray , Duane Michals, Carlo Mollino, Sarah Moon …
ISelf Collection: Self-portrait as the Billy Goat

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (GB)
27 Apr 2017 – 30 Sep 2017

with Pawel Althamer, Tracey Emin, Linder, Cindy Sherman
Performing for the Camera

Tate Modern, London (GB)
18 Feb 2016 – 12 Jun 2016

with Samuel Fosso, Masahisa Fukase, Yves Klein, Romain Mader, Boris Mikhailov, Martin Parr, Charles Ray, Cindy Sherman, Amalia Ulman, Francesca Woodman, Erwin Wurm
GESTURES - Women in action

kunst Meran . Merano arte, Merano (IT)
6 Feb 2016 – 10 Apr 2016

with Marina Abramovic, Sophie Calle, Silvia Camporesi, Valie Export, Regina Jose Galindo, Ana Mendieta, Shirin Neshat, Orlan, Odinea Pamici, Carolee Schneemann
We can make another future: Japanese art after 1989

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
6 Sep 2014 – 20 Sep 2015

with Michiko Kon, Yasumasa Morimura, Daido Moriyama, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Miwa Yanagi
ALICE

im Wunderland der Kunst

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE)
22 Jun 2012 – 30 Sep 2012

with Thorsten Brinkmann, Marcel Broodthaers, Lewis Carroll, Anna Gaskell, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Gary Hill, Stephan Huber, Pierre Huyghe, Joseph Kosuth, Duane Michals, Kiki Smith …
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan

Section 1: Reality/Ordinary world<br>Section 2: Imaginary world/ Phantasms

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (RU)
14 Mar 2012 – 6 May 2012

with Makoto Aida, Takashi Homma, Yasumasa Morimura, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Hiraki Sawa, Toshio Shibata, Lieko Shiga, Tadasu Takamine
WHAT MADE US FAMOUS...

Olyvia Fine Art, London (GB)
14 Dec 2011 – 3 Feb 2012

with Marco Bolognesi, Bob Carlos Clarke, In Sook Kim, Sarah Lucas, Helmut Newton, Ai Weiwei
Hara Museum Collection: Body and Soul

Hara Museum Arc, Tôkyô (JP)
17 Sep 2011 – 4 Jan 2012

with Tabaimo, Mickalene Thomas, Tomoko Yoneda
Pictures by Women

A History of Modern Photography

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
7 May 2010 – 4 Apr 2011

with Berenice Abbott, Rogi André, Emmy Andriesse, Claudia Andujar, Eleanor Antin, Diane Arbus, Gertrud Arndt, Anna Atkins, Tina Barney, Uta Barth, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Valerie Belin …
100 Years of Performance

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (RU)
19 Jun 2010 – 17 Sep 2010

with Vito Acconci, Francis Alys, Matthew Barney, Anna Halprin, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Joan Jonas, Sigalit Landau, Ana Mendieta, Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Carolee Schneemann
17th Biennale of Sydney

THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age

Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (AU)
12 May 2010 – 1 Aug 2010

with Adel Abidin, AES+F, Makoto Aida, Brook Andrew, Miguel Angel Rios, Kutluğ Ataman, Kader Attia, Lara Baladi, Roger Ballen, John Bock, Jota Castro, Dana Claxton …
100 Years of Performance

MoMA PS1, New York (US)
1 Nov 2009 – 5 May 2010

with Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Anna Halprin, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Joan Jonas, Pamela Landau Connolly, Ana Mendieta, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Ryan Trecartin
Liverpool Biennial 2008

Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (GB)
20 Sep 2008 – 30 Nov 2008

with Guy Ben-Ner, David Blandy, Kyungwoo Chun, Nancy Davenport, Leandro Erlich, Omer Fast, Rodney Graham, Lauren Greenfield, Jesper Just, Luisa Lambri, Ulf Langheinrich, Gabriel Lester …
Contemporary Outlook: Japan

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US)
2 Jul 2007 – 10 Feb 2008

with Mariko Mori, Daido Moriyama, Takashi Murakami
Auto Emotion: Autobiography, emotion and self-fashioning

The Power Plant, Toronto (CA)
18 May 2007 – 19 Aug 2007

with Marina Abramovic, Resa Afisina, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Sophie Calle, Andrea Fraser, Rodney Graham, Christian Jankowski, Nikki S. Lee, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Matt Mullican, Benny Nemer, Adrian Paci …
Variations on a Theme: Six Ruminations on Recurrence

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
2 Feb 2007 – 3 Mar 2007

with Eadweard J. Muybridge, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Berlin - Tokio / Tokio - Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte

Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (DE)
8 Jun 2006 – 3 Oct 2006

with Herbert Bayer, Candice Breitz, Marianne Breslauer, Chargesheimer, Ei-Q, Annika Eriksson, Hans Finsler, Arno Fischer, Walter Funkat, George Grosz, Hannah Hoech, Hannah Hoech …
Summer of Love

Kunsthalle Wien, Wien (AT)
12 May 2006 – 17 Sep 2006

with Ant Farm, Nam June Paik, Adrian Piper, Andy Warhol
20 Jahre

Fabian & Claude Walter, Zürich (CH)
2 May 2006 – 23 Jun 2006

with Annelies Strba, Sonja Braas, Balthasar Burkhard, Uwe Wittwer
Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo

Mori Art Museum, Tôkyô (JP)
28 Jan 2006 – 7 May 2006

with Herbert Bayer, Candice Breitz, Marianne Breslauer, Chargesheimer, Ei-Q, Annika Eriksson, Hans Finsler, Arno Fischer, Walter Funkat, George Grosz, Hannah Hoech, Heinz Hajek-Halke …
CHIKAKU. Tiempo y memoria en Japón. Arte japonés contemporáneo

MARCO Vigo, Vigo (ES)
7 Oct 2005 – 22 Jan 2006

with Rieko Hidaka, Takashi Ito, Emiko Kasahara, Atsushi Kawamata, Motohiko Kotani, Hiroyuki Moriwaki, Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, Motohiko Odani, Taro Okamoto, Yoko Ono, Yutaka Sone …
Chikaku . Zeit und Erinnerung in Japan

Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
5 Jun 2005 – 11 Sep 2005

with Rieko Hidaka, Emiko Kasahara, Tadashi Kawamata, Motohiko Kotani, Hiroyuki Moriwaki, Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, Tetsuya Nakamura, Motohiko Odani, Taro Okamoto, Yoko Ono, Yutaka Sone …
Chikaku . Zeit und Erinnerung in Japan

Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (AT)
4 Jun 2005 – 11 Sep 2005

with Rieko Hidaka, Emiko Kasahara, Tadashi Kawamata, Motohiko Kotani, Hiroyuki Moriwaki, Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, Tetsuya Nakamura, Motohiko Odani, Taro Okamoto, Yoko Ono, Yutaka Sone …
Woman. Metamorphosis of modernity

Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (ES)
26 Nov 2004 – 6 Feb 2005

with Gertrud Arndt, Marianne Breslauer, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Valie Export, Lotte Jacobi, Germaine Krull, Fernand Leger, Man Ray , Lucia Moholy, Georgia O'Keeffe, Orlan …
Eijanaika!Yes future! Post-twentieth Century Japan

Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR)
9 Jul 2004 – 10 Oct 2004

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Amy Granat, Eikoh Hosoe, Youmei Kawai, Mariko Mori, Yasumasa Morimura, Takashi Murakami, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Rika Noguchi, Yoko Ono, Tsuyoshi Ozawa …
Raison et sentiments - Un regard feminin

Crac Alsace, Altkirch (FR)
13 Jun 2004 – 22 Aug 2004

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Laurie Anderson, Vanessa Beecroft, Angela Bulloch, Ann Veronica Janssens, Elke Krystufek, Pipilotti Rist, Fiona Tan, Annika von Hausswolff, Simone Zaugg
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art . Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to Present

Mori Art Museum, Tôkyô (JP)
28 Apr 2004 – 1 Aug 2004

with Berenice Abbott, Marina Abramovic, Dieter Appelt, Tina Barney, Matthew Barney, Hans Bellmer, Christian Boltanski, Margaret Bourke-White, Constantin Brancusi, Marianne Brandt, Imogen Cunningham, Jim Dine …
Biennale

Museum of New Art (mona), Pontiac (US)
15 May 2004 – 26 Jun 2004

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Janine Antoni, Nobuyoshi Araki, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Oliver Boberg, Monica Bonvicini, Sophie Calle, Maurizio Cattelan, John Coplans, Tacita Dean …
Mediarena: contemporary art from Japan

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (NZ)
13 Mar 2004 – 7 Jun 2004

with Makoto Aida, Kyoko Ebata, Naoya Hatakeyama, Tomoko Kaneko, Meiro Koizumi, Hiroyuki Matsukage, Motohiko Odani, Saki Satom, Tomoko Sawada, Kyoko Sawanobori, Masato Wakabayashi, Miwa Yanagi
Spirit

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (FR)
17 Jan 2004 – 10 Mar 2004

with Sarah Lucas, Ana Mendieta, Chloe Piene
Obsession!

GALICA arte contemporanea, Milano (IT)
4 Dec 2003 – 27 Feb 2004

with Sebastiaan Bremer
Le Cabinet des Collages

D'Amelio Terras, New York (US)
10 Jan 2004 – 14 Feb 2004

with Martha Rosler
Artist’s Choice: Mona Hatoum, Here Is Elsewhere

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
7 Nov 2003 – 2 Feb 2004

with Francis Alys, Xinema Cuevas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco, Richard Prince, Martha Rosler, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Jane & Louise Wilson, David Wojnarowicz

Events

Independent NY 2023

Independent NY, New York (US)
11 May 2023 – 14 May 2023

with Eleanor Antin, Anne Hardy, Peter Hujar, Sarah Jones, Dana Kavelina, D'Angelo Lovell Williams , Stanley Stellar, Wolfgang Tillmans
Loud & Clear & TOO at Galeria Noua Bucarest, Romania

BIFRONS, Amsterdam (NL)
30 Nov 2005 – 15 Jan 2006

with Pierre Bismuth, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Candice Breitz, Pierre Huyghe, Christian Jankowski, Tamas Komoroczky, Aernout Mik, L.A. Raeven, Pipilotti Rist