This curated selection of Yayoi Kusama pumpkin works centers on one of the most enduring and celebrated motifs of her career. For Kusama, the pumpkin represents comfort, stability, and an intimate connection to childhood memory, while simultaneously serving as a vehicle for her lifelong exploration of repetition, infinity, and the dissolution of self.
Rendered through her unmistakable polka-dot language, these compositions transform a familiar organic form into a hypnotic field of visual rhythm, where surface, pattern, and perception converge. The pumpkin becomes both subject and system: grounded in nature yet elevated into a symbol of psychological and spiritual reflection.
Across prints and editions, Kusama’s meticulous layering of dots creates an optical experience that feels at once playful and profound, inviting viewers into a meditative encounter with scale, space, and endlessness. Collectively, these works embody the duality at the heart of Kusama’s practice—joy and obsession, simplicity and complexity, intimacy and infinity. The result is a body of work that feels timeless, universally resonant, and increasingly essential within both contemporary art history and the global collector landscape.
