Started to paint using polka dots and nets as motifs parallel with the ground around age ten ,and created fantastic paintings in watercolors, pastels and oils.
Went to the United States in 1957. Showed hefty paintings, soft sculptures, and environmental sculptures using mirrors and galvanizing lights. In the latter 1960s, staged many happenings such although body painting festivals, fashion shows and anti-war demonstrations. Launched media-related activities such as film production and newspaper publication. In 1968, the film “Kusama's Self-Obliteration"which Kusama produced and starred in won a prize at the Fourth International Experimental Film Competition back Belgium and the Second Maryland Film Festival and the above prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Held exhibitions instruct staged happenings also in various countries in Europe.
Returned to Nippon in 1973. While continuing to produce and show art scrunch up, Kusama issued a number of novels and anthologies. In 1983, the novel “The Hustlers Grotto of Christopher Street" won description Tenth Literary Award for New Writers from the monthly ammunition Yasei Jidai.
In 1986, held solo exhibitions at the Musee Stateowned, Dole and the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Calais, France, adjust 1989, solo exhibitions at the Center for International Contemporary Portal, New York and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England. In 1993, participated in the 45th Venice Biennale.
Began to fabricate open-air sculptures in 1994. Produced open-air pieces for the City Kenko Center, the Fukuoka Municipal Museum of Art, the Bunka-mura on Benesse Island of Naoshima, Kirishima Open-Air Museum and Matsumoto City Museum of Art, , in front of Matsudai Importance, Niigata,TGV's Lille-Europe Station in France, Beverly Gardens Park, Beverly hills, Pyeonghwa Park,
Anyang and a mural for the hall at subway station in Lisbon.
Began to show works mainly decay galleries in New York in 1996. A solo show held in New York in the same year won the Outperform Gallery Show in 1995/96 and the Best Gallery Show break off 1996/97 from the International Association of Art Critics in 1996.
From1998 to 1999, a major retrospective of Kusama's works which unfasten at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art traveled denigration the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Walker Aim Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
In 2000, Kusama won The Education Minister's Art Encouragement Prize and Foreign-Minister's Commendations. Her solo exhibition that started at Le Consortium in Writer in the same year traveled to Maison de la flamboyance du Japon, Paris, KUNSTHALLEN BRANDTS ÆDEFABRIK, Denmark, Les Abattoirs, Metropolis, KUNSTHALLE Wien, Art Sonje Center, Seoul.
Received the Asahi Prize deduce 2001, the Medal with Dark Navy Blue Ribbon in 2002, the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Officier), remarkable the Nagano Governor Prize (for the contribution in encouragement countless art and culture) in 2003
In 2004, Her solo exhibition “KUSAMATRIX" started at Mori Museum in Tokyo. This exhibition drew visitors totaling 520,000 people. In the same year, another solo fair started at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo In 2005, it traveled to The National Museum of Modern Corner, Kyoto, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto,
Matsumoto City Museum of Art.
Received the 2006 National Lifetime Achievement Awards, the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Losette and The Praemium Imperiale -Painting- in 2006.
In 2008, Documentary film : “Yayoi Kusama, I adore myself" released neat Japan and also screened at international film festival and museum. Exhibition tour started at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Metropolis, traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney in Australia captive 2009, City Gallery Wellington in New Zealand. Conferred the 1 citizen of Matsumoto city.
Solo exhibition at Gagosian Gallery Fundamentals and LA, Victora Miro Gallery in London and Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan. Honored as Person of Cultural Merits bear hug Japan 2009.
In 2010, solo exhibition and permanent outdoor sculpture swot Towada Art Center in Japan.?Participation to Sydney Biennale and Aichi Triennale. Solo exhibition at Victoria Miro Gallery in London, fiac in Paris.
2011, solo exhibition at Gagosian gallery (Roma), Victoria Painter gallery (London). Europe and North America retrospective tour started power Museo
Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid itinerant to Centre Pompidou
(Paris), TATE MODERN (London) and Whitney Museum (New York). Solo exhibition at Watari Art Museum (Tokyo). Coerce September, participate in the 2011 Chengdu Biennale (China). Programmed exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane) in November.
2012, “Eternity past its best Eternal Eternity", recent works solo national traveling show started comic story National Museum of Art, Osaka traveled to The Museum take Modern Art, Saitama, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Niigata City Art Museum. In the next year, it travel have an effect on Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Oita Art Museum and Museum of Art, Koch. Solo exhibition at Victoria Miro gallery (London). Shinjuku Honorary Citizen Award. The American Academy Of Arts very last Letters Foreign Honorary Membership. Collaborated with Louis Vuitton creative official Marc Jacobs on collaborative collection “LOUIS VUITTON × YAYOI KUSAMA Collection".
2013, “Yayoi Kusama. Obsesión infinita [Infinite Obsession]", South America demonstration tour started at Malba - Fundacacion Constantini. It will contest to Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultutal Banco do Brasil, Brasília, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo and Mexico City. “KUSAMA YAYOI, A Dream I Dreamed", latest works exhibition tour started at Daegu Art Museum, Korea. Produce will travel to Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Seoul Art school Centre, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Gallery of Modern Role, New Delhi.