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ID: 500122518 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500122518			Record Type: Person

Kusama, Yayoi (Japanese painter, performance, and installation artist, born 1929)

Note: Kusama is known for her varied practice that includes painting, sculpture and room-sized installations. She moved to the US 1957, settling in New York City, and produced paintings influenced by abstract expressionism. She was active in New York in the 1960s creating sculpture and installations, and producing happenings.

Names:
	Kusama, Yayoi (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Kusama, Yayoi (Dutch-P,NA)
	Yayoi Kusama (V,display)
	Nusama, Yayoi (V)
	Yayoi Nusama (V)
	草間弥生 (U)
	草間彌生 (U)
	קוסמה, ייוי (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
	Japanese (preferred)
	American

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	installation artist
	sculptor
	performance artist
	painter
	writer
	painter (tradesperson)
	author
	collagist
	photographer
	draftsman
	video artist

Gender: female


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Matsumoto (Nagano, Japan) (inhabited place)

Events:

active:

Tokyo (Tōkyō, Japan) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

colleague of ....	Cornell, Joseph
......................	(American sculptor and filmmaker, 1903-1972) [500003169]

List/Hierarchical Position:

....

Persons, Artists

........

Kusama, Yayoi (I)

Biographies:

(Japanese painter, performance, and installation artist, born 1929) ..... [VP Preferred]
( sculptor, active 1981) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
( sculptor, active 1966) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(Japanese installation artist, contemporary) ..... [AVERY]
(Japanese sculptor) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, born 1929) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Japanese artist, born 1929) ..... [MoMA]
(Japanese installation and performance artist, born 1929) ..... [NMWA]
(Japanese artist, born 1929) ..... [IMJ]
(Japanese sculptor, 1929-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

草間弥生 ........	[GRL]
..........	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) nr 91003643

草間彌生 ........	[GRL]
..........	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) nr 91003643

קוסמה, ייוי ........	[IMJ]
......................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Kusama, Yayoi ........	[AVERY Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, NMWA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
............................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
............................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8; 890164
............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
............................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) nr 91003643
............................	National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection Records
............................	NMWA database (2018-)
............................	Phillips and Kaiser, Harald Szeemann (2018)
............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 122345
............................	Witt Library, Authority files

Nusama, Yayoi ........	[CL-Courtauld]
............................	Witt Library, Authority files

Yayoi Kusama ........	[CL-Courtauld, GRISC, MoMA, VP]
..........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..........................	Whitney Biennial Exhibition (2004) 199

Yayoi Nusama ........	[CL-Courtauld, VP]
..........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........	[AVERY, CL-Courtauld, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, IMJ, MoMA, NMWA, RKD, VP]
....................	Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: nr91003643
....................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: nr91003643
....................	Metamorfosi, 2006 Nov.-Dec., n.63-69 68
....................	NMWA database (2018-)
....................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 122345
....................	Whitney Biennial Exhibition (2004) 199
....................	Wikidata online (2000-) Q231121
....................	Witt Library, Authority files


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, VP]
	..........	Metamorfosi, 2006 Nov.-Dec., n.63-69 68
	..........	Phillips and Kaiser, Harald Szeemann (2018)

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