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Yayoi Kusama
지난 60여년 넘게 자신만의 독특한 예술 언어로 새로운 영역을 개척한 야요이 쿠사마 (b. 1929)는 현대 미술사에 한 획을 긋는 여성 작가로 여겨진다. 1950년대 후반부터 1970년대 초, 뉴욕 아방가르드 운동 속에서 페미니즘, 제도비판미술, 해프닝 등 다양한 영역을 넘나들며 자신만의 창의적이고도 도발적인 실험으로 두각을 나타냈다. 1973년 일본으로 다시 돌아온 후 지금 이 순간까지도 그녀는 끊임없이 작품 활동에 몰두하며 “쿠사마 세계”를 입증하고 있다. 특히 쿠사마는 “물방울 무늬의 여왕”이라 불릴 정도로 물방울 무늬가 무한 반복되고 증식되는 시각적 장치를 창조해냈다. 이는 작가의 편집적 강박증, 공황장애 등 정신질환이 가져온 환각 증세에서 비롯된 것으로, 환각증은 작가에게 ‘피해야할 대상’이 아닌, 쿠사마 만의 독특한 예술 세계로 승화시키는 절대적 수단으로 여겨진다. 물방울 무늬 외에도 거울, 풍선, 호박 또한 작품의 주요 소재로, 회화, 조각, 영상, 설치작품 등을 통해 그녀의 대담한 표현력을 그대로 나타낸다. 강렬한 색상, 단순한 형상, 끝없는 반복성이 만들어낸 세계는 팝아트와 미니멀리즘을 동시에 부각시키는 중요성을 갖는다.
Pioneering a distinctive style over the last 60 years, Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) has been recognized as one of the most critically acclaimed artists of our time. From the late 1950s to the early 1970s, Kusama was at the epicenter of New York avant-garde, displaying her creative and provocative artistic elements across various studies including Feminism, Institutional Critique, and Performance.
Since returning to Japan in 1973, Kusama has constantly and aggressively reproduced her works. Drawing inspiration from the hallucinations she suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder and schizophrenia, Kusama has developed a unique style using polka dots that proliferate throughout the surface. Often referred as “the princess of polka dots,” she incorporates mirrors, balloons, and pumpkins as visual elements in a diverse range of medium including paintings, sculptures, films, and interactive installation works to show her excitement for vibrant colors, minimal figures, and endless repetitions and enlargements. Significantly, Kusama’s decades of inventions present unparalleled approaches linking Pop art and Minimalism, two of the most important movements of the 20th century.
Born 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Education
1948-1949 Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts, Kyoto, Japan
Selected Solo Shows
2019-2021
Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
2019
Yayoi Kusama: All About Love Speaks Forever, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China
Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE, David Zwirner, New York, USA
Yayoi Kusama: HERE, ANOTHER NIGHT COMES FROM TRILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY: Eternal Infinity, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Fireflies on the Water, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Yayoi Kusama, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
2018
Yayoi Kusama: I Want You to Look at My Prospects for the Future: Plants and I, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM: LET’S SURVIVE TOGETHER, Wndr Museum, Chicago, USA
Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, USA
2017-2019
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA; traveled to Seattle Art Museum, USA; The Broad, Los Angeles, USA; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
2017
Yayoi Kusama, 101 Spring Street, Judd Foundation, New York, USA
Yayoi Kusama: Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Yayoi Kusama: Life Is the Heart of a Rainbow, National Gallery of Singapore; traveled to Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), Jakarta, Indonesia
2016
Yayoi Kusama: At the End of the Universe, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsessions, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul Paintings, Victoria Miro, London, UK
Yayoi Kusama: The obliteration room, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
2015
Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love, David Zwirner, New York, USA
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Theory, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Selected Public Collections
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Benesse Art Site, Naoshima, Japan
The Broad, Los Angeles, USA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Fracne
Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Komagane, Japan
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano, Japan
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, USA
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA