Japanese artist (1929–2026), installation and sculpture pioneer
Yayoi Kusama has died at 97, her studio has announced. The Japanese artist has become globally famous for polka dots, Infinity Nets and Infinity Mirror Rooms, and she has continued to paint into her final days. Her work has drawn huge museum audiences and influenced generations of artists across pop, minimalism and performance art.
Yayoi Kusama has died at 97 in Tokyo, with a life spanning seven decades of radical art. Born in Matsumoto in 1929, she rose from early visions to international fame, with Infinity Mirror Rooms and pumpkin motifs shaping modern sculpture and installation art.
The late Yayoi Kusama’s work continues to shape a global art narrative as museums stage posthumous retrospectives. The Amsterdam Stedelijk hosts a tribute installation in a show reshaped by Kusama’s death, highlighting the artist’s themes of infinity, identity and mental health.