Yayoi Kusama
born 1929
10 documented presences
10 places
Quo Fuit places 10 dated presences for Yayoi Kusama across 10 places, from 1929 to 2021. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
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Where Yayoi Kusama was documented, and when
22 March 1929exact date
Matsumoto, Naganoattested
“Yayoi Kusama was born on 22 March 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1948year
Kyoto City University of Artsattested
“She went on to study Nihonga painting at the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts in 1948.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1954year
Tokyoattested
“On her 1954 painting Flower (D.S.P.S), Kusama has said: After living in Tokyo and France, Kusama left Japan at the age of 27 for the United States.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1954year
Japanattested
“On her 1954 painting Flower (D.S.P.S), Kusama has said: After living in Tokyo and France, Kusama left Japan at the age of 27 for the United States.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1957year
Seattleattested
“In 1957, she moved to Seattle, where she had an exhibition of paintings at the Zoe Dusanne Gallery.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1968year
Belgiumattested
“In 1968, Kusama and Jud Yalkut's collaborative work Kusama's Self-Obliteration won a prize at the Fourth International Experimental Film Competition in Belgium and the Second Maryland Film Festival and the second prize at the Ann Arbor F…”
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17 November 2007exact date
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyoattested
“In 2009, the Guideposts were re-installed at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, this time displayed as floating "humps" on a lake * 10 October – 17 November 2007: Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery, London * 2009: The Mirrored Years tra…”
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17 November 2007exact date
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardenattested
“In 2009, the Guideposts were re-installed at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, this time displayed as floating "humps" on a lake * 10 October – 17 November 2007: Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery, London * 2009: The Mirrored Years tra…”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
2017year
Hirshhorn Museumattested
“In 2017, a fifty-year retrospective of Kusama's work opened at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
November 2021month
Tel Aviv Museum of Artattested
“The name of the exhibit is derived from an open letter Kusama wrote to then-President-elect Richard Nixon in 1968, writing: "let's forget ourselves, dearest Richard, and become one with the absolute, all together in the altogether." In N…”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
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Places Yayoi Kusama is documented in
Belgium1 presence · 1968Japan1 presence · 1954Seattle1 presence · 1957Tokyo1 presence · 1954
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden1 presence · 2007
Hirshhorn Museum1 presence · 2017
Kyoto City University of Arts1 presence · 1948
Matsumoto, Nagano1 presence · 1929
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo1 presence · 2007
Tel Aviv Museum of Art1 presence · 2021
Other places tied to Yayoi Kusama in the record
In each of these, a source puts Yayoi Kusama and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Yayoi Kusama was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1952year
1958year
New York Citymentioned
“She arrived in New York City in 1958 where the majority of her well known collections were born: Infinity Networks and sculptures.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1958year
New Yorkmentioned
“She arrived in New York City in 1958 where the majority of her well known collections were born: Infinity Networks and sculptures.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1959year
New Yorkmentioned
“OCLC 954134388 In 1959, Kusama had her first solo exhibition in New York at the Brata Gallery, an artist's co-op.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1966year
Venice Biennalementioned
“In 1966, Kusama first participated in the Venice Biennale for its 33rd edition.”
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1968year
Fillmore Eastmentioned
“In 1968, Kusama presided over the happening Homosexual Wedding at the Church of Self-obliteration at 33 Walker Street in New York and performed alongside Fleetwood Mac and Country Joe and the Fish at the Fillmore East in New York City.”
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1968year
New York Citymentioned
“In 1968, Kusama presided over the happening Homosexual Wedding at the Church of Self-obliteration at 33 Walker Street in New York and performed alongside Fleetwood Mac and Country Joe and the Fish at the Fillmore East in New York City.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1968year
New Yorkmentioned
“In 1968, Kusama presided over the happening Homosexual Wedding at the Church of Self-obliteration at 33 Walker Street in New York and performed alongside Fleetwood Mac and Country Joe and the Fish at the Fillmore East in New York City.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1968year
Bloomingdale'smentioned
“In 1968, Kusama established Kusama Fashion Company Ltd, and began selling avant-garde fashion in the "Kusama Corner" at Bloomingdale's.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1973year
1983 to 1990period
Cape Codmentioned
“Between 1983 and 1990, she finished the novels The Hustler's Grotto of Christopher Street (1983), The Burning of St Mark's Church (1985), Between Heaven and Earth (1988), Woodstock Phallus Cutter (1988), Aching Chandelier (1989), Double…”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1989year
New Yorkmentioned
“Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective was the first critical survey of Yayoi Kusama presented at the Center for International Contemporary Arts (CICA) in New York in 1989, and was organized by Alexandra Munroe.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1991year
Yokohamamentioned
“In 1991, Kusama starred in the film Tokyo Decadence, written and directed by Ryū Murakami, and in 1993, she collaborated with British musician Peter Gabriel on an installation in Yokohama.”
source: Wikipedia: Yayoi Kusama
1993year
Venice Biennalementioned
“Following the success of the Japanese pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1993, a dazzling mirrored room filled with small pumpkin sculptures in which she resided in color-coordinated magician's attire, Kusama went on to produce a huge, y…”
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2001 to 2003period
2003year
2003year
9 May 2004exact date
9 May 2004exact date
19 December 2004exact date
2006year
October 2007month
2011year
2012year
Documented at the same place, the same year
Le CorbusierTokyo · 1954Margaret SangerJapan · 1954Stanislav PetrovUnited States · 2017John KerryUnited States · 2017Melania TrumpUnited States · 2017Mike PompeoUnited States · 2017Steve BannonUnited States · 2017
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