Largely shielded from the horrors of World War II, she was, as she has claimed, nevertheless scarred by her mother’s cruelty, her father’s infidelities, and her family’s discouragement of her interest in art making. Kusama was born in 1929 into a well-off but dysfunctional family in Nagano, Japan. “People may call me otherwise, but…I consider myself a heretic of the art world.” 1 “I am an obsessional artist,” she once said. A vital part of New York’s avant-garde art scene from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, Yayoi Kusama developed a distinctive style utilizing approaches associated with Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop art, Feminist art, and Institutional Critique-but she always defined herself in her own terms.
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