Internationally renowned Japanese artist, has pursued her principal themes of infinity, self-image, sexuality, and compulsive repetition since she created her first series in the late 1950s, Infinity Nets, paintings covered in flat, "endless" net-like patterns. She describes her work as "obsessional," the direct result of a precarious psychological state. From 1958-73 Kusama lived in New York, where she was well known in the Manhattan art scene of Happenings, sexual revolution and anti-war protest–all featured in her work of that period.
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