Yayoi Kusama

'I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland' Yayoi Kusama

Nonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most
mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she
emerged out of the international Fluxus movement to launch naked happenings in
New York and went on to become a doyenne of that city's counter-cultural
scene. In the early 1970s, she returned to Japan and by 1977 had checked
herself in to a psychiatric hospital which has remained her home to this day.
But, though she was removed from the world, she was definitely not in
retirement. Her love and belief in the polka dot has given birth to some of
the most surprising and inspiring installations and paintings of the last four
decades - and made her exhibitions the most visited of any single living
artist.