What is Yayoi Kusama?
{{Infobox artist | name = Yayoi Kusama | image =20130918Yayoi Kusama3.jpg | caption = Yayoi Kusama and [[Shinzo Abe]] (2013) | birth_name = Yayoi Kusama | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1929|03|22}} | birth_place = [[Matsumoto, Nagano]], Japan | nationality = Japanese | field = {{flatlist| * [[Painting]] * [[drawing]] * [[sculpture]] * [[installation art]] * [[performance art]] * [[movie]]s * [[fiction]] * [[fashion]] * [[writer|writing]]}} | training = | movement = {{flatlist| * [[Pop art]] * [[minimalism]] * [[feminist art]] * [[environmental art]]}} | website = {{url|http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp}} | works = | patrons = | awards = [[Praemium Imperiale]] }} {{nihongo|'''Yayoi Kusama'''|草間 彌生|Kusama Yayoi|born 22 March 1929}} is a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[contemporary artist]] and [[writer]]. She is well known for her repeating dot patterns in her art. She uses a variety of media. These include [[painting]], [[drawing]], [[sculpture]], [[movie]]s, [[Performing arts|performance]] and [[immersive installation]]. Her art ranges from works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery, to soft sculpture known as ‘Accumulations’, to her ‘Infinity Net’ paintings. These paintings are made up of carefully repeated arcs of paint built up into large patterns. Since 1977, Kusama has lived voluntarily in a [[psychiatric]] institution. Much of her work has been marked with [[Obsessive|obsessiveness]] and a desire to escape from [[psychological trauma]]. In an attempt to share her experiences, she creates installations that immerse the viewer in her obsessive vision of endless dots and nets or infinitely mirrored space. ==Biography== Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929 in [[Matsumoto, Nagano]]. She started drawing pictures with a [[motif]] of [[Polka dot|polka dots]] with watercolors, pastel and oil paints at 10 years old. She entered art [[university]] in [[Kyoto |Kyoto]]. Afterwards, she went to the [[United States|US]] to study art. She did intense performances whose name were “happening” there to protest wars