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Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who had her breakthrough in 1965 when she produced the Infinity Mirror Room. The Infinity Mirror Room was a collection of mirrors sewn side by side to create a chamber of mirrors. Aside from the reflection upon reflection, the room was also decorated with multicolored flashing LED lights creating a kaleidoscopic color space. It is a particularly unique experience because the visitor becomes the subject of her work.

The waitlist for viewings can be quite long because the installation has extremely limited capacity. It can only accommodate one visitor per minute. The digital queue for the installation usually fills within the first two hours of the museum opening. Yayoi Kusama is currently on a North American tour where the mirror room will be featured. The dates and venues are below:

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Feb 23–May 14, 2017

• Seattle Art Museum, June 30–Sept 10, 2017
• The Broad, Los Angeles, Oct 21, 2017–Jan 1, 2018
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, March 3–May 27, 2018
• Cleveland Museum of Art, July 9–Sept 30, 2018
• High Museum of Art, Nov 18, 2018–Feb 17, 2019

Photo by Helsinki Art Museum. Licensed under Creative Commons. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)

Tags: tradition, Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist, The Infinity Mirror Room, art installation, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, Seattle Art Museum, The Broad, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Cleveland Museum of Art, High Museum of Art