ZHONG CHENG

草間彌生 YAYOI KUSAMA (b.1929)

Born in Matsumoto, Japan, Yayoi Kusama majored in Japanese painting at the Kyoto Fine Arts School of Craftsmanship. She moved to New York City in 1956, since then, she held many exhibitions to present her avant-garde style ever since. Yayoi Kusama is currently the most important non-deceased female artist in Japan. Her artistic approach is like no others, and working in multi-media including painting, sculpture, films, installation, environmental and performance art. She even writes novels and engage in fashion design. Her aesthetic style is most similar to Minimalism, POP art and Feminist art. Important exhibitions include: “American Century” (1999, Whitney Museum of Art, New York). Starting in 2013, her long-term exhibition “A Dream I Dreamed” toured all of Asia; in 2015, the exhibition arrived in Taiwan and was shown in National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. The result was very well received and her aesthetic creativity became an international sensation. “My Eternal Soul” (2017, Tokyo, the National Art Center).  

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