Yayoi Kusama born March 22 1929 is a Japanese artist and writer Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media including painting collage scat sculpture performance art and environmental installations most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors repetition and pattern A precursor of the pop art minimalist and feminist art movements Kusama influenced contemporaries such as Andy Warhol Claes Oldenburg and Yoko Ono