{"id":79922,"date":"2026-08-27T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=79922"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:23:05","slug":"yayoi-kusama-japanese-artist-famous-for-pumpkins-and-polka-dots-dies-aged-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=79922","title":{"rendered":"Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist famous for pumpkins and polka dots, dies aged 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese avant-garde artist whose obsessive polka dots, towering pumpkin sculptures and mesmerising Infinity Mirror Rooms captivated audiences worldwide, has died at the age of 97.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The artist died on August 14 at a hospital in Tokyo due to multiple organ failure. Her studio and the city\u2019s Yayoi Kusama Museum confirmed the news on August 27.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThroughout an extraordinary lifetime devoted entirely to artistic creation, Kusama pursued an internationally acclaimed career as a pioneering avant-garde artist whose creative practice encompassed visual art, performance, fiction and poetry,\u201d her studio said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The museum added that Kusama \u201cheld fast to her belief in saving the world through love until the very end\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-d3pq8q e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"One of Kusama\u2019s pumpkins is displayed at the Harbour Arts Sculpture Park on Hong Kong\u2019s Central Harbourfront in February 2018. Photo: Sam Tsang\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/08\/27\/4f68bf82-4158-4126-8753-cc041dfd8884_ff1192ff.jpg\" title=\"One of Kusama\u2019s pumpkins is displayed at the Harbour Arts Sculpture Park on Hong Kong\u2019s Central Harbourfront in February 2018. Photo: Sam Tsang\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">One of Kusama\u2019s pumpkins is displayed at the Harbour Arts Sculpture Park on Hong Kong\u2019s Central Harbourfront in February 2018. Photo: Sam Tsang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kusama enjoyed a particularly strong following in Hong Kong, and the city functioned as her primary commercial art market across Asia. Notably, it hosted the largest retrospective of her work on the continent outside her native Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3365407\/yayoi-kusama-japanese-artist-famous-pumpkins-and-polka-dots-dies-aged-97?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese avant-garde artist whose obsessive polka dots, towering pumpkin sculptures and mesmerising Infinity Mirror Rooms captivated audiences worldwide, has died at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5747,1785,3134,29000,4675,1884,28998,28999,1364,5062],"class_list":["post-79922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-aged","tag-artist","tag-dies","tag-dots","tag-famous","tag-japanese","tag-kusama","tag-polka","tag-pumpkins","tag-yayoi","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}