In 1959, Kusama had her first solo exhibition in New York at the Brata Gallery, an artist's co-op. She showed a series of white net paintings which were enthusiastically reviewed by Donald Judd (both Judd and Frank Stella then acquired paintings from the show).[15] Kusama has since exhibited work with, among others, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and Jasper Johns. Exhibiting alongside European artists including Lucio Fontana, Pol Bury, Otto Piene, and Gunther Uecker, in 1962 she was the only female artist to take part in the widely acclaimed Nul (Zero) international group exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.[53]

Exhibitions List

• 1976: Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
• 1987: Fukuoka, Japan
• 1989: Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York
• 1993: Represented Japan at the Venice Biennale
• 1996: Recent Works at Robert Miller Gallery
• 1998–1999: Retrospective exhibition of work toured the US and Japan
• 1998: "Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama,1958–1969", LACMA
• 1998–99: "Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama,1958–1969" - exhibit traveled to Museum of Modern Art, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo)
• 2000: Le Consortium, Dijon
• 2001–2003: Le Consortium - exhibit traveled to Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris; Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; and Artsonje Center, Seoul
• 2004: KUSAMATRIX, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
• 2004–2005: KUSAMATRIX traveled to Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido); Eternity – Modernity, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (touring Japan)
• 2007: FINA Festival 2007. Kusama created Guidepost to the New Space, a vibrant outdoor installation for Birrarung Marr beside the Yarra River in Melbourne. In 2009, the Guideposts were re-installed at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, this time displayed as floating "humps" on a lake.[54]
• 2008: The Mirrored Years, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• 2009: The Mirrored Years traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
August 2010: Aichi Triennale 2010, Nagoya. Works were exhibited inside Aichi Arts Center, out of the center and Toyota car polka dot project.
• 2010: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen purchased the work Infinity Mirror Room - Phalli's Field. As of September 13 of that year the mirror room is permanently exhibited in the entrance area of the museum.
• July 2011: Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
• 2012: Tate Modern, London.[55] Described as "akin to being suspended in a beautiful cosmos gazing at infinite worlds, or like a tiny dot of fluoresecent plankton in an ocean of glowing microscopic life",[56] the exhibition features a retrospective spanning Kusama's entire career.
• July 15, 2013 – November 3, 2013: Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
• June 30, 2013 – September 16, 2013: MALBA, the Latinamerican Art Museum of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• May 22, 2014 – June 27, 2014: Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
• September 17, 2015 – January 24, 2016: In Infinity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark[57]
• June 12 – August 9, 2015: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Theory, The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. This was the artist's first solo exhibition in Russia.[58]
• February 19 – May 15, 2016: Yayoi Kusama - I uendeligheten, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
• September 20, 2015 – September, 2016: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room, The Broad, Los Angeles, California
• June 12 – September 18, 2016: Kusama: At the End of the Universe, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
• May 1, 2016 - November 30, 2016: Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden, The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut.
• May 25, 2016 – July 30, 2016: Yayoi Kusama: sculptures, paintings & mirror rooms, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
• October 7, 2016 - January 22, 2017: Yayoi Kusama: In Infinity, organised by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Moderna Museet/ArkDes and Helsinki Art Museum HAM in Helsinki, Finland.[59]
• November 5, 2016 - April 17, 2017: "Dot Obsessions - Tasmania," MONA: Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania. [60]
• February 23, 2017 – May 14, 2017: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, a traveling museum show originating at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC [61][39]
• June 30, 2017 – September 10, 2017: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, exhibition travels to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
• June 9, 2017 - September 3, 2017: Yayoi Kusama: Life Is The Heart Of A Rainbow National Gallery Singapore.[62]
• October 2017 – January 2018: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, exhibition travels to The Broad, Los Angeles, California
• October 2017 - February 2018: Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
• March 2018 – May 2018: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, exhibition travels to Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• July 2018 – October 2018: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, exhibition travels to Cleveland Museum of Art, exhibition travels to Cleveland, Ohio
• Permanent Infinity Room installations[edit]
• Infinity Dots Mirrored Room (1996), Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies (2005), Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona[63]
• Gleaming Lights of the Souls (2008), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, HUMLEBÆK, Denmark[64]
• Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013), The Broad, Los Angeles, California[39]
• Infinity Mirror Room - Phalli's Field (1965/2016), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands