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Biography
Yayoi Kusama was a Japanese artist who worked primarily in sculpture and installation. She was also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work was based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, art brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She was acknowledged as one of the most important artists to have come out of Japan, and was one of the world's top-selling female artists and ranked #19 in Sotheby's 2023 list of the top 50 artists. Her work influenced her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.
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Awards & recognition
- Order of Culture · 2016
- Praemium Imperiale · 2010
- Person of Cultural Merit · 2009
- Praemium Imperiale · 2006
- Women's Caucus — Art Lifetime Achievement Award · 2006
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- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres · 2003
- Asahi Prize · 2000
- Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class
