The Fourth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

YAYOI KUSAMA Born 1929 Matsumoto, Japan Moved to New York 1958 Returned to Tokyo 1977 Lives and works Tokyo, Japan Selected solo exhibitions* 2002 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Kunsthalle Wien, Austria 2000 1999 1998 'Yayoi Kusama: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture', Elias Fine Art, Allston, USA Serpentine Gallery, London, UK 'From Zero to Infinity: Yayoi Kusama in Context', Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, USA 'Yayoi Kusama', Le Consortium Contemporary Art Center, Dijon, France; Denmark; Korea 'Early Drawings from the Collection of Richard Castellane', The Art Museum, Princeton University, USA Ouka-Shorin, Nagano Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France 'In Full Bloom: Yayoi Kusama, Years in Japan', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA; Japan Crown Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan Gallery Paris, Yokohama 'Yayoi Kusama: Works from the 1950s', Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA 'Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama 1958-1968', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA; Japan 'Self Obliteration', Media of Modern Art Contemporary (Moma Contemporary), Tokyo 1996 'Yayoi Kusama:The 1950s and 1960s', Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka 1996, '98, 2002 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA 1995 'Yayoi Kusama Etchings', 77 Gallery, Tokyo 1995, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000, '01 Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo 1994 1993 1992 Nagano Prefectual Shinano Art Museum Gallery Art Wing, Kanagawa Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy Shuyu Gallery, Tokyo Gallery Tomita, Hiroshima Gallery Aries, Tokyo Gallery Lamia, Tokyo Sogetsu Art Museum and Niigata City Art Museum 1991, '92, '94, '96, '98, '99 MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka 1991, 2000 1989 134 Ouka-Shorin, Nagano 'Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective', Center for International Contemporary Art, New York, USA Gallery Ikeda Bizyutsu, Tokyo APT2002 1989, '91, '92, '99, 2000, '01 Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo 1988 'Soul Burning Flashes', Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; UK 1987 Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka Musee Municipal, Dole, France 1983 'Self-Obliteration', Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo (performance) 'Encounter of Souls', Jardin de Luseine, Tokyo 1983, '89, '90, '94, '95 Gallery KURA, Matsumoto 1982 Box Gallery, Nagoya 1982, '84, '86, '91, '94, '95 Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo 1982, '93 Galleria di'\rte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy 1980 'Self Obliteration of Nets and Polka Dots', GalleryToshin, Tokyo 'Unknown Works by Yayoi Kusama:The Flash That Burns Grass', American Center, Tokyo 1976 'Obsessional Art, a Requiem for Death and Life', Osaka Formes Gallery, Tokyo 1975 'Message of Death From Hades', Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo 1967 'Love Room', Galerij Orez, The Hague, The Netherlands 1966 'Driving Image Show', Gallerie di'\rte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy; Germany 'New Collection', Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, USA 1964, '65, '66 R. Castellane Gallery, NewYork, USA 1963 i'\ggregation One Thousand Boats Show', Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York, USA 1961 Stadtisches Museum, Trier, Germany 1960, '61 Gres Gallery, Washington DC, USA 1959 'Obsessional Monochrome', Brata Gallery, New York, USA 1957 Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, USA 1955 Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo 1952 The First Community Center, Matsumoto Selected group exhibitions* 2001 'Yokohama 2001 : International Triennale of Contemporary Art' 'Les Annees Pop', Musee National di'\rt Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 'Collaborations with Parkett 1984 to Now', The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 'Global Visions: Art After 1980', Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo 'Louise Bourgeois & Yayoi Kusama: Works from 1942 to 2000', Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA 'Facts of Life: Contemporary Japanese Art', Hayward Gallery, London, UK 'Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis', Tate Modern, London, UK 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 Gallery Now, Toyama '12th Biennale of Sydney', Australia ltabashi Art Museum, Tokyo 'Japanese Art in the 20th Century', Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo 'Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-76', Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA; Austria; Spain; Japan 'Spiral TV: 3rd Art Life 21 Festival', Spiral Garden, Tokyo 'Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset', The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Tension', Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA 'Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation', MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA 'Site of Desire: 1998Taipei Biennale (3rd)', Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan :."\rt/Ecosystem: The Contemporary Japanese Art Scene', Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi 'Towards Another Normality', Hara Museum ARC, Gunma 'Between the Unknown Straits: Art Now in Japan and Korea', Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Korea 'Travel & Leisure', Paula Cooper Gallery, NewYork, USA 'The Maximal Sixties: Pop, Op and Figuration', The Museum of Modern Art, NewYork, USA 'De-Genderism', Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo 'Japan Today MAK', Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria 'Japanese Art 1960s, Japanese Summer 1960-64', ArtTower Mito, lbaraki '5th NICAF '97 Tokyo', Tokyo International Exhibition Center '1964: A Turning Point in Japanese Art', Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo '50 Contemporary Japanese Artists', Nabio Museum, Osaka Galerie A, Amsterdam, The Netherlands i'\rt of Postwar 1960s Avant-Garde', Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki i'\rt at Home: Standard Ideal Life', Spiral Garden, Tokyo 'NowHere', Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark i'\ Decade of Avantgarde Artists', ltabashi Art Museum, Tokyo Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA i'\RS 95', Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Sweden 'Maux Faux', Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York, USA 'Minimal Form', Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo 'Revolution: Art ofThe Sixties: From Warhol to Beuys', Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo