Timeline Friday 22 March 1929

Events on Friday 22 March 1929 2

• 1929 – 2026 Yayoi Kusama Japanese Artist Japanese contemporary artist whose immersive polka-dot installations, infinity mirror rooms and vibrant pumpkin sculptures made her one of the most celebrated and commercially successful artists in the world. Born into a seed-merchant family in Matsumoto, she began experiencing vivid hallucinations as a child — flashes of light, auras and dense fields of dots — and channelled these visions into an extraordinary body of work spanning painting, sculpture, installation, performance, fiction and fashion. She lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution in Tokyo from 1977, walking to her nearby studio each morning to create. By the time of her death at 97, she was the world's top-selling living artist.
• 1929 Yayoi Kusama born in Matsumoto Born Yayoi Kusama in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, into a family of merchants who ran a plant nursery and seed farm. Her childhood was marked by her mother's physical abuse and her father's infidelity — her mother would send her to spy on his extramarital affairs.