Yayoi Kusama’s Global Artistic Legacy

The death of Yayoi Kusama at the age of ninety-seven has renewed attention on the long history behind one of contemporary art’s most recognisable visual languages. Across painting, sculpture, performance, writing and immersive space, Kusama turned private perception and repetition into a global experience. Her decision to continue painting until her final days reminds us that the career extended far beyond popular ‘Infinity Rooms’: it belongs to the histories of the postwar avant-garde, women artists’ struggle for visibility and an obsessive investigation of the painted surface.