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Kusama was born into a wealthy family owning a plant and seed farm
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Kusama started to experience hallucinations when she was 10. She saw "flashes of light", "fields of dots", "speaking flowers", "patterns on cloth coming to life".
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Kusama studied traditional Japanese painting here.
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Kusama felt that Japan was too narrow-minded and too scornful of women
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People who do avant-garde art are artists who practice art in a non-traditional fashion
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Exhibition works make use of the entire gallery space
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A happening is a performance or an event that is considered to be art.
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In this happening, 1500 silver balls were placed on a patch of grass at the Venice Biennale in June. To include the viewers in her art, Kusama sells the balls for $2 each.
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Kusama returned to Japan after the death of her partner and because of her poor health.
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Kusama decides to stay permanently at the mental hospital to treat her illnesses. For years, she would focus on writing and poetry.
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A work combining the idea of her infinity mirrors and pumpkins becomes part of the permanent exhibition in Hara Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Pumpkin 1994 is an outdoor sculpture.
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Kusama contributes a balloon work and Infinity Mirror Room 1965/1998 to the Biennale of Sydney.
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Kusama exhibits a ten-metre-wide flower sculpture on a small hill in Matsudai.
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For this exhibition, the artist transforms the galleries of the new Mori Art Museum in Tokyo into immersive installations. Immersive installations make use of the entire gallery space to give viewers an experience to be "in" the artwork.
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Kusama creates a four-metre-tall red pumpkin for the ‘Naoshima Standard Exhibition’. The sculpture is later placed permanently at the Naoshima Ferry Terminal.
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Still ongoing, the series now comprises over 500 paintings. It consists of organic shapes and decorative elements painted in bright colours.
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The artist is asked to design a Town bus whose route travels through her hometown of Matsumoto.
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Exhibited Infinity Mirrored Room at the Tate Museum in London. The walls and ceiling of the room are mirrored, and the floor features a shallow pool of water. Visitors walk through the room on a walkway made of mirrored tiles. Hanging from the ceiling are hundreds of small, round LED lights that flash on and off
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