1948
Admission to the "senior class" at the Kyōto Municipal School of Fine Arts
1948 - 1951
Studies at the Kyōto Municipal School of Fine Arts
1952
First solo exhibitions, First Community Centre, Matsumoto, Nagano (March and October)
1957
Moves to the USA; initially lives in Seattle
1958
Umzug nach New York; Studium an der Art Students' League, New York
1959
After solo exhibitions in Seattle (Zoe Dusanne Gallery, 1957) and Boston (Nova Gallery, 1959), first solo exhibition in New York (Brata Gallery)
1960
Represented in Germany for the first time in a museum exhibition "Monochrome Painting" in Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich. Subsequently developed contacts with European artists, in particular the NUL group. Her paintings are characterised by all-over structures of a net-like, small-structured nature (Infinity Nets) as well as larger dots (Polka Dots)
1962
Invitation to the exhibition "Nul" at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1963
Obtains US citizenship
1964/65
Participation in the exhibition "Zero", Institute of Contemporary, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and in 1965 in ZERO avantgarde, Atelier Lucio Fontana, Milan
1965
First museum exhibition with happening at the Crysler Museum, Provincetown, MA
Participation in the exhibition "NUL 65" at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1966
Her film Self-Oliteration is shown on television in Germany, Holland, Belgium and Italy (received several awards in 1967)
1967 - 1970
Numerous happenings in New York and Tokyo (among others); from 1968 onwards, performances dominate the artist's work for several years, for example, she paints dots on the bodies of naked people in public places, giving the impression of a kind of perforation
1975 - 1989
Solo exhibitions in galleries in Japan, Italy and the USA
1989
Retrospektive im Center of International Contemporary Arts, New York (27.Sept. 1989-31. Jan. 1990)
1993
Representing Japan at the 45th Venice Biennale
1998/99
Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, travelling exhibition in the USA: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2000 - 2015
Numerous solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in Japan, the USA and Europe
2001 - 2003
Yayoi Kusama, Le Consortium: travelling exhibition in Europe and Korea, e.g. Dijon, Paris, Vienna
2006
Represented in the exhibition "ZERO - International avant-garde artists of the 50/60s
2011
Solo exhibition at, among others, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2012
Collaboration with Louis Vuitton; solo exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others
2015 - 2017
Yayoi Kusama: travelling exhibition, e.g. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Helsinki Art Museum, Finland. In 2015, Yayoi Kusama is represented in the exhibition "Zero", Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Yayoi Kusama lives and works in Japan, her work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions in Japan, Asia, the USA and Europe
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