2024 Yayoi Kusama's First Solo Presentation in Northern California: Infinite LoveNEW

San Francisco, CA (July 13, 2023, updated July 14, 2023) - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love, the first opportunity for audiences to experience any of Yayoi Kusama’s famed Infinity Mirror Rooms in the Bay Area. Yayoi Kusama’s irresistible, psychedelic art installations invite viewers to step into dazzling mirrored spaces that convey a feeling of unlimited potential and possibility. Opening to the public on October 14, 2023, Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love is the artist’s first solo museum presentation in Northern California. For many audiences, this will also be the first chance to see Kusama’s latest work, Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love (2023), following its acclaimed debut in New York at David Zwirner gallery.

Summary 
Step into an unforgettable universe of luminous color and endless reflections, only at SFMOMA!

Experience the kaleidoscopic world of Yayoi Kusama, one of the most iconic and globally celebrated artists working today. Kusama’s first solo presentation in Northern California includes her newest room, Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love (2023), a psychedelic cosmos of dancing color and light.

The infinite awaits. Stay tuned for more surprises to be revealed soon!

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Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love

Exhibition Dates
October 14, 2023- September 7, 2024

Kusama has stated, on the occasion of this presentation:
Enter the place of colors
Polka dots let in the sunlight of the earth
The heart Is filled with the shining light of the sun
All of the people who enter seeking the joy of being alive
Let there be eternal harmony among all in the circles and cycles of living
Peace and endless love for all

- Yayoi Kusama, 2023

“Yayoi Kusama’s captivating Infinity Mirror Rooms offer a tremendous opportunity for viewers to connect with the artwork and with each other,” commented Christopher Bedford, the Helen and Charles Schwab Director at SFMOMA. “We are thrilled that Kusama’s new immersive artwork will have its West Coast premiere at SFMOMA, exciting and inspiring new audiences and longtime fans alike.”

Admission Costs
Admission is free for SFMOMA members and tickets for extended member preview days are available for reservation on September 5. Tickets for the general public go on sale September 12.

Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love Overview
Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.

- Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room
Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love features the artist’s latest astonishing Infinity Mirror Room: a room-sized, experiential artwork that transports viewers into dream-like universes of seemingly endless space. Distinctly recognizable, Kusama’s fascinating Infinity Mirror Rooms surround the viewer with surfaces that reflect a repetition of shapes-such as colorful polka dots, circles and spheres-together with fragments of one’s own reflection. The mirrored walls of the rooms may create a sense of existing in multiple locations across an infinite universe. This presentation offers visitors the unique opportunity to see work by Kusama that epitomizes the artist’s diverse interests in light, space, sculpture and poetry.

Kusama’s Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love
Kusama’s Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love, (2023), welcomes the viewer into a universe of multicolored light. At first, the exterior of this sculptural work blends into the gallery’s all-white surroundings, punctuated by an array of large transparent acrylic dots, including a quadrant-or quarter-dot-door at one corner for visitors to enter. In the interior, bright ambient light filters through the colored windows to create a luminous, kaleidoscopic pattern of overlapping circles. As visitors turn around in the space, the mirrored surfaces create an environment that is constantly in flux.

Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love exemplifies SFMOMA’s commitment to presenting the work of Asian and AAPI artists, including the first retrospective of Pacita Abad this fall, a gallery of paintings and drawings by Hung Liu and current and upcoming group exhibitions featuring key works from the museum’s collection by Japanese artists Yoko Ono, Tatsuo Miyajima, Rakuko Naito, Tadaaki Kuwayama and Takashi Arai, among others. SFMOMA is also recognized for its significant collection of Japanese photography.

About the Artist
Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environment.

- Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s most iconic and celebrated artists working today. With connections to Pop Art, Minimalism, psychedelia and popular culture, Kusama’s multidisciplinary career transcends categories as the artist continues to innovate over a career spanning more than 70 years. Kusama’s artistic practice encompasses paintings, sculpture, installations, works on paper, performances, films, fashion, design and literary works. Her work across this wide breadth of media alludes to both microscopic and macroscopic universes.

Born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan, Kusama began her artistic education at the Kyoto City Senior High　School of Art. Early in her artistic career, she had several solo exhibitions in Japan before moving to New York in 1958. She developed a style that embraced repetitive mark-making and organic patterns and forms on canvas, expanding to environmental creations after 1962. In the mid-1960s in New York, she established herself as a pioneering avant-garde artist by staging groundbreaking performances, events and exhibitions. She moved back to Japan in 1973 where she lives and works in Tokyo. Her work gained renewed widespread recognition in the late 1980s following several notable international solo exhibitions. She created her first mirrored environment in 1965, her first darkened Infinity Mirror Room in 2000, and has since constructed over 20 such installations that have become audience favorites worldwide. In 1993, Kusama represented Japan at the 45th Venice Biennale, receiving much critical acclaim, and she began to create open-air sculptures in 1994.

Over the past 25 years, Kusama’s work has been featured in numerous major museum exhibitions around the world, including presentations at the ICA Boston; Pérez Art Museum Miami; The Broad, Los Angeles; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Singapore; Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, Jakarta; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Qatar Museums, Doha; M+ Museum in Hong Kong and Guggenheim Bilbao Museum.

Organization + Support
This presentation is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is overseen by Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts.

Generous support for Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love is provided by W.L.S. Spencer Foundation.

Meaningful support is provided by Dolly and George Chammas, and Marielle Ednalino and Ken Lamb.

Hours + Admission
Museum hours are 10 am-5 pm on Fridays through Tuesdays and 1-8 pm on Thursdays (closed Wednesdays). Current visitor information can be found at sfmoma.org/visit.

SFMOMA members enjoy free admission to Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love. Members may reserve timed tickets beginning September 5 at tickets.sfmoma.org and will also have first access to subsequent releases of tickets throughout the run of the exhibition. Visit sfmoma.org/membership for more information.

For nonmembers, tickets for Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love beginning October 14 will go on sale September 12 at tickets.sfmoma.org. The special exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love has a $10 surcharge for all nonmembers aged 19 and older.

Free Days
Following the presentation’s opening day on October 14, SFMOMA will offer a number of Free Days for Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love, including First Thursdays, Free Family Days and Free Community Days. During First Thursdays beginning in November, there will be a limited number of tickets available to Bay Area residents for free admission to Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love with advanced reservation. On Free Family Days, general admission to the museum is free for up to four adults accompanying one child or teen (18 and younger).

Tickets for Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love during Free Days must be booked in advance. Only a limited number of tickets will be available on site. More details available at sfmoma.org/free-days. For information about other free and discounted admission programs, visit sfmoma.org/deals-discounts.

Location
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

About
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