Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama, is a Japanese artist and writer. She started to paint using polka dots and nets as motifs at around age ten ,and created fantastic paintings in watercolors, pastels and oils. Yayoi travelled to the United States in 1957. Showed large paintings, soft sculptures, and environmental sculptures using mirrors and electric lights. In the latter 1960s, she staged many happenings such as body painting festivals, fashion shows and anti-war demonstrations. She launched media-related activities such as film production and newspaper publication. In 1968, she produce and starred in the film "Kusama's Self-Obliteration".

  • Title: Yayoi Kusama
  • Popularity: 0.857
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1929-03-22
  • Place of Birth: Nagano, Japan
  • Homepage: http://yayoi-kusama.jp/e/information/
  • Also Known As: 草間彌生
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Yayoi Kusama Movies

  • 1992
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    Tokyo Decadence

    Tokyo Decadence

    5.9 1992 HD

    A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is...

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  • 1967
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    Kusama's Self-Obliteration

    Kusama's Self-Obliteration

    6 1967 HD

    A film exploration of the work and aesthetic concepts of Yayoi Kusama, painter, sculptor, and environmentalist, conceived in terms of an intense...

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  • 1969
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    Flowers

    Flowers

    1 1969 HD

    While I was staying in New York in the 1960s during the rise of the hippie movement, I filmed performances of body painting by the artist, Kusama...

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  • 2016
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    Yayoi Kusama

    Yayoi Kusama

    6 2016 HD

    Yayoi Kusama born March 22, 1929 is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including...

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  • 2008
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    Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me

    Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me

    10 2008 HD

    Captures the avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusamas creative process as she diligently works to complete her series of 50 large monochrome drawings. As her...

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  • 2017
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    The Inexhaustible Creations of Yayoi Kusama

    The Inexhaustible Creations of Yayoi Kusama

    1 2017 HD

    Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama is best known for her inexhaustible creations involving polka dots, pumpkins, and vibrant colors. Her love...

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  • 2014
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    Polka Dot Superstar: The Amazing World of Yayoi Kusama

    Polka Dot Superstar: The Amazing World of Yayoi Kusama

    1 2014 HD

    This film follows Yayoi Kusama during the preparations for Tate Modern's 2012 retrospective of her work, when she undertook the mammoth physical and...

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  • 2018
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    Kusama: Infinity

    Kusama: Infinity

    7.4 2018 HD

    Now one of the world’s most celebrated artists, Yayoi Kusama broke free of the rigid society in which she was raised, and overcame sexism,...

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  • 2015
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    Bad Girls of Japan

    Bad Girls of Japan

    1 2015 HD

    Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of...

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  • 1967
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    Kusama's Self-Obliteration

    Kusama's Self-Obliteration

    6 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Kusama's Self-Obliteration

    Kusama's Self-Obliteration

    6 1967 HD

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  • 2016
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    Yayoi Kusama

    Yayoi Kusama

    6 2016 HD

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