At the 1966 Art Biennale, Yayoi Kusama participated unofficially by presenting her work Narcissus Garden: 1,500 mirrored spheres that visitors could purchase for two dollars each. Near the installation is the sign “Your Narcissism for Sale,” recalling the feeling given by the mirror of an expanding world, where viewers can lose themselves by recognizing the narcissism of the desire to see themselves reflected within the work. Until May 14, 2023, Narcissus Garden will fill the space of the Aronson Fine Arts Center at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri.

The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington has been collecting Yayoi Kusama’s works since 1996. Until July 16, 2023, the exhibition One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection showcases works by the Japanese artist that belong to the museum’s permanent collection. These works include her Infinity Mirror Rooms, such as the 1965 Phalli’s Field (Floor Show) – the first of the artist’s immersive installations to transform the repetition of recurring visual elements in her work into a participatory experience. 

Until May 13, the M+ Museum in Hong Kong hosts the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now – the largest retrospective on Yayoi Kusama in Asia outside Japan. The exhibition tells the artist’s life by foregrounding the research and deep questions that have guided her creative activity. More than 200 works including drawings, paintings, sculptures, and installations to tell her career. In addition, new ones such as Death of Nerves (2022), Dots Obsession—Aspiring to Heaven’s Love (2022) and Pumpkin (2022).

One of the most anticipated exhibitions this spring in New York City galleries among the streets of Chelsea, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers at David Zwirner Gallery will display new paintings and sculptures on the leitmotifs of pumpkins and flowers, and a new Infinity Mirror Room. On the gallery’s website, a huge countdown marks the days until the opening of the exhibition. Given the enthusiastic reaction to the previous 2019 exhibition Every day I pray for love, it will undoubtedly reconfirm Yayoi Kusama’s success.

In Manchester, summer 2023 will be dedicated to Yayoi Kusama’s work. The Factory International celebrates thirty years of Japanese artist’s inflatable artworks, brought together for the first time in a single exhibition. The exhibition Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and The Balloons presents itself as a true journey into Kusama’s psychedelic creations. At the center of the immersive project offered to visitors there is the play with dimensions and materials. 

In 2021, London’s Tate Modern presented in the spaces of the George Economou Gallery the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms, in which one of the Japanese artist’s largest installations – Filled with the Brilliance of Life (2011-2017), made for the 2012 retrospective – will be open to the public. Along with this work, there will be Chandelier of Grief (2016-2018) as well – a room that creates the illusion of a boundless universe made of rotating crystal chandeliers. The exhibition will be open until April 2024. 

The Yayoi Kusama Museum in Tokyo presents an exhibition that focuses on the psychedelic aspects of the Japanese artist’s work, showcasing variations of her creations from different periods. The first of her hexagonal mirrored rooms presented in New York in the mid-1960s will be on display. Many drawings from Kusama’s early years will be on display as well – free representations of images and hallucinations. An exhibition meant to tell and let the audience experience “self-obliteration” – a key theme in Kusama’s work. 

For the first time in Italy, a famous Infinity Mirror Room by Yayoi Kusama – Fireflies on the Water (2002) – is coming to Bergamo. The artwork comes from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. On the occasion of the celebration of Bergamo and Brescia as the 2023 Italian Capitals of Culture, Palazzo della Ragione will host this exhibition entitled Infinito Presente and curated by Stefano Raimondi. An unmissable opportunity to see one of Kusama’s most evocative works. On display from November 19, 2023 to January 24, 2024. 

Love is Calling is among the largest and most kaleidoscopic Infinity Mirror Rooms by Yayoi Kusama. On display at the PAMM Perez Art Museum in Miami until February 2024, this work stands at the apex of her artistic career and perfectly represents the breadth of her visual and creative vocabulary, from polka dots, to bright colors, to the presence of mirrors that create spatial illusion. Upon entering the space, visitors will hear Kusama’s voice in the reading of a love poem in Japanese written by the artist and translated into English as Residing in a Castle of Shed Tears.