Yayoi Kusama // My Eternal Life, 2016

  • Yayoi Kusama, My Eternal Life, 2016. Large square acrylic painting, 194 × 194 × 7 cm, from the My Eternal Soul series, featuring vibrant colours and symbolic forms that reflect Kusama’s vision of infinity and the cycle of life.
    My Eternal Life, 2016
    Acrylic on canvas, 194 × 194 × 7 cm (76 3/8 × 76 3/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
    © Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only.
     
    Yayoi Kusama’s My Eternal Life (2016) is a monumental acrylic on canvas, measuring 194 × 194 × 7 cm, from her acclaimed My Eternal Soul series. The painting is animated by vivid colour and flowing biomorphic forms, creating a dynamic composition that seems to extend beyond the canvas itself. The title reflects Kusama’s enduring preoccupation with infinity, survival, and the transcendence of the self through art.
     
    As with many works in the series, My Eternal Life transforms personal reflection into universal imagery. Its bold palette and rhythmic shapes evoke both vitality and continuity, embodying Kusama’s belief in art as a vehicle for endurance and renewal. The painting stands as a testament to her later career, when creativity became both a mode of survival and an affirmation of existence.

  • “I want to create a world that no one has ever seen before.”

     — Yayoi Kusama

    The work reflects the extraordinary momentum of the My Eternal Soul series, in which Kusama produced hundreds of large-scale canvases filled with relentless energy and invention. In My Eternal Life, the interplay of organic shapes and luminous tones transforms the canvas into a declaration of persistence, suggesting that creativity itself is a form of immortality. By uniting personal vision with universal themes, the painting captures Kusama’s lifelong pursuit of infinity and her determination to keep creating as a way of affirming life’s continuity.