Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Mirrors

Organized by the Hirshhorn Museum, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors is the most significant North American tour of the artist's work in nearly two decades. Following its Washington, DC, debut, the itinerant exhibition will travel to five major museums in the United States and Canada: •Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Feb 23–May 14, 2017. •Seattle Art Museum, June 30–Sept 10, 2017. •The Broad, Los Angeles, Oct 21, 2017–Jan 10, 2018. •Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, March 3–May 27, 2018. •Cleveland Museum of Art, July 9–Sept 30, 2018. •High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Nov 18, 2018–Feb 17, 2019 Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors is a celebration of the legendary Japanese artist's sixty-five-year career. Visitors will have the opportunity to discover six of Kusama's captivating Infinity Mirror Rooms alongside a selection of her other key works, including a number of paintings from her most recent series My Eternal Soul that have never been shown in the US. From her radical performances in the 1960s, when she staged underground polka dot "Happenings" on the streets of New York, to her latest Infinity Mirror Room, All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 2016, the Hirshhorn exhibition will showcase Kusama's full range of work for the first time in Washington, DC. Yayoi Kusama became the first woman to represent Japan at the Venice Biennale in 1993, and was named one of the most influential people by Time magazine in 2016. *Free-passes are required at the entrance