Y ~ Yayoi Kusama

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is the biggest-selling female artist in the world. And in her bright-red wig and quirky polka-dot ensembles, she is also one of the most instantly recognisable. Yayoi has been breaking new ground for more than six decades.

Crises, fears of psychiatric breakdown and her frenetic drive have all shaped a long and colorful career. Undaunted, she took on the American, male-dominated world of Abstract Expressionism and she has produced a body of work formally unified by its use of repetitive dots.

Source: bbc.com & cnn.com