Yayoi Kusama // New York, 1982

  • Yayoi Kusama, New York, 1982. Lithograph, 28 × 35 cm, edition of 100. Reflects Kusama’s impressions of New York, combining her distinctive graphic style with rhythmic pattern and bold linework.
    New York, 1982
    Lithograph, 28 × 35 cm, Edition of 100
    © Yayoi Kusama.
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    Yayoi Kusama’s New York (1982) is a lithograph measuring 28 × 35 cm, produced in an edition of 100. Created during a period when Kusama reflected on her years spent in the United States, the work captures her enduring connection to New York, the city where she rose to international prominence in the 1960s. Through bold graphic lines and rhythmic patterning, the print evokes the energy and intensity of the cityscape while reimagining it through her unique visual language.
     
    Rather than a literal depiction, Kusama’s New York abstracts the metropolis into a dynamic field of shapes and patterns. The composition conveys both the vitality and the psychological strain she associated with her time in the city, blending personal memory with her broader exploration of infinity, repetition, and self-obliteration.
     
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  • “If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago.”

     — Yayoi Kusama

    As with many of her editioned works from the early 1980s, New York demonstrates Kusama’s ability to turn lived experience into symbolic imagery. The lithograph captures the duality of her relationship with the city,  a place of both struggle and inspiration, while reaffirming her status as a pioneering figure in contemporary art.