With exhibitions around the world and creative partnerships with Louis Vuitton, Yayoi Kusama continues to surprise audiences. Yayoi Kusama Museum, a museum dedicated to the artist’s work, opened October 1, 2017, in Tokyo with the inaugural exhibition Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art. EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE, the museum’s tenth exhibition devoted to her work, was on view from 2022 to 2023.

The Manchester International Festival recently presented her largest-ever installation. Titled Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons, the immersive exhibition featured giant dolls, an inflatable dog, spectacular polka-dot spheres, special infinity rooms that take the public to new worlds full of bright colours and psychedelic vibrancy.

Conceived especially for the bright-new spaces of the new MIF space, Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons honoured three decades of the pioneering Japanese artist’s inflatable artworks. Like the infinite spaces she makes and the unique visual language she created, Kusama’s talent is without limits. She has never stopped making art. Today, Yayoi Kusama continues to make new work and push her vision forward. 

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Credits: Life of the Pumpkin Recites, All About the Biggest Love for the People, 2019 Installation view from Manchester International Festival 2023 exhibition ‘Yayoi Kusama/ You, Me and the Balloons’ at Aviva Studios. Images © David Levene and Yayoi Kusama and Dots Obsession, 1996-2011 Installation view/ The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. © YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner. (1).