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Yayoi Kusama is a female Japanese artist who is a self-described “obsessional artist.” She employes painting, sculpture, performance art, and installations in a variety of styles, including Pop art and Minimalism.
By her own account, Kusama began painting as a child, at about the time she began experiencing hallucinations that often involved fields of dots.
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Those hallucinations and the theme of dots would continue to inform her art throughout her career. She had little formal training, studying art only briefly at the Kyōto City Specialist School of Arts in 1948. Family conflict and the desire to become an artist drove her to move in 1957 to the United States, where she settled in New York City.
Before leaving Japan, she destroyed many of her early paintings. Her early work in New York City included what she called “infinity net” paintings. Those consisted of thousands of tiny marks obsessively repeated across large canvases without regard for the edges of the canvas, as if they co