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Yayoi Kusama

A person with bright red bobbed hair and a yellow-spotted black top in a red and black patterned space.

Yayoi Kusama, photo © Yayoi Kusama, courtesy of Ota Fine Arts

Flowers that Bloom in the Cosmos

Flowers have been a lifelong passion for Japan’s Yayoi Kusama, one of the world’s most beloved living artists. For the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Kusama has created an exuberant floral sculpture that is visible day and night, prominently positioned on the new building’s terrace overlooking Woolloomooloo Bay.

On display:
In our north building, Naala Badu, stepped terrace

Four people look at a colourful sculpture of flowers with spots on an outdoor terrace

Yayoi Kusama Flowers that Bloom in the Cosmos 2022, commissioned for the Sydney Modern Project with funds provided by the Art Gallery of New South Wales Foundation and the Gandel Foundation 2022 © Yayoi Kusama, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Zan Wimberley