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Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist best known for polka dots, “Infinity Nets,” and mirrored “Infinity Rooms.” She has openly connected her art to lifelong psychological distress—especially vivid hallucinations and intrusive, repeating visual patterns that began in childhood—and says she turns those experiences into images as a way to cope and “externalize” what she sees and feels.Â
Since 1977, Kusama has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution in Tokyo, while continuing to work daily in a nearby studio—an arrangement often described as helping her manage symptoms and maintain stability while sustaining an intensely productive practice. Her signature repetition (dots, nets, accumulations) is frequently discussed as both an aesthetic and a self-soothing structure: making order, rhythm, and “infinity” out of overwhelming sensations. Â
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