1 votes so far. Email Print. Yayoi Kusama, born March 22, 1929 in Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan is a Japanese artist whose paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation.hat makes Yayoi Kusama's art notable is a kind of cosmological obsession integrated into art as forms of proliferating repetition and endless accumulation.