日本艺术家草间弥生逝世，享年97岁

日本艺术家草间弥生于97岁去世1。这位1929年3月22日出生于日本长野县松本市的艺术家，以波点图案和无限镜屋等标志性作品闻名，其创作对20世纪及21世纪多个艺术运动产生了深远影响1。

草间弥生的职业生涯跨越地域和时代。她在1957年移居纽约，1973年返回日本永久居住1。1977年，她入住东京的Seiwa Hospital精神病医院，此后一直在此居住1。尽管面对长期的心理健康挑战，她仍坚持创作。在2012年的一次采访中，她表示："我每天都在与痛苦、焦虑和恐惧作斗争，我发现唯一能缓解我疾病的方法就是继续创作艺术"1。

草间弥生的艺术成就得到了全球广泛认可。1998年，洛杉矶县艺术博物馆为她举办了大型回顾展1。2012年，她的作品在纽约惠特尼美术馆和伦敦泰特现代美术馆同时展出1。2017年，赫什霍恩博物馆华盛顿分馆举办了她的回顾展，同年东京草间弥生美术馆正式开幕1。她在墨尔本国家美术馆2024-25年夏季的展览吸引了570,537名购票观众，创造了该馆历史上最成功的付费展览纪录1。

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, whose distinctive polka dot patterns and immersive infinity rooms left an indelible mark on contemporary art, has passed away at the age of 971. Born on March 22, 1929, in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Kusama became one of the most influential figures spanning multiple artistic movements across the 20th and 21st centuries1.

Kusama's career took her from Japan to New York in 1957, where she established herself as a pioneering force in the avant-garde scene before returning to permanent residence in Japan in 19731. In 1977, she entered Seiwa Hospital in Tokyo, where she continued to reside and create1. Her prolific output and distinctive artistic vision garnered international recognition through major retrospectives, including exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1998, the Whitney Museum in New York and Tate Modern in London in 2012, and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. in 20171. The Yayoi Kusama Museum in Tokyo opened that same year1.

Throughout her struggles with chronic illness, Kusama maintained an unwavering commitment to her craft. In a 2012 interview, she reflected on her creative practice, stating: "I struggle every day against pain, anxiety, and fear, and the only method I have found that relieved my illness is to keep creating art"1. Her dedication to artistic expression resonated globally, as evidenced by the National Gallery of Victoria's 2024-25 summer exhibition of her work, which attracted 570,537 paid visitors—marking the museum's most successful paid exhibition in its history1.