BUFFALO, NY.- One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama honors the influential artist’s distinctive vision of self-obliteration by exploring its development across media. The exhibition features three immersive installations of Yayoi Kusama’s artwork, including two of her renowned Infinity Mirror Rooms. Born in Japan in 1929, the artist is globally recognized for her multidisciplinary practice that includes room-size installations, paintings, sculpture, poetry, and public performances. One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama is presented in partnership with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.

To emphasize the depth of her artistic practice, three transcendent Infinity Mirror Rooms are exhibited alongside a selection of small paintings and sculpture (many highlighting pumpkins, a signature motif) against biographical information and photographs of the artist over the course of her long career.

The artist’s breakthrough immersive installation, Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field (Floor Show) (1965/2017) is presented here alongside one of her most recent Rooms, My Heart is Dancing Into the Universe (2018), offering visitors a glimpse into how these artworks have evolved over a half-century of innovation.

Since the 1940s, Kusama has made work about pumpkins, which she considers unpretentious, solid, and spiritually balanced and which remind her of her childhood. The polka dot environment created for Pumpkin (2016) links two of Kusama’s sustained interests.

Visitors will experience Kusama’s distinctive vision of self-obliteration, a radical approach to connecting with others and the universe. Observing one’s body in the infinite space of a mirrored room or losing one’s sense of place by navigating a field of colorful lamps, the boundary between the self and the outside world is dissolved and visitors become one with everything around them, one with eternity.

One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama is organized at the Buffalo AKG by Associate Curator Andrea Alvarez. It was curated at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden by Assistant Curator Betsy Johnson in 2020.