Kusama is now in her 80s, and the world’s respect for her art has only been growing. In the US, there will be a vast retrospective show of her work from 2017 to 2019.

Her 60 or so years of making art have not always been easy. As someone who has always thought outside the box and had a unique way of expressing herself, Kusama has sometimes been called names, but she has always fought back with high ideals and new ways of expressing herself.

This book shows where her art, which has always been ahead of its time, came from.