Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama made a splash in the New York art scene of the 1950s and 60s by creating provocative and influential art in a variety of media, much of which foreshadowed important art movements and helped to shape the 1960s art aesthetic. Her sewn-and-stuffed canvas series Compulsion Furniture prefigured the emergence of references to the body and sexuality in the postminimalist sculpture of artists such as Eva Hesse. She contributed to the emergence of Environments with her Infinity Mirror Rooms and to Happenings with her nude body painting performances and her fashion shows. Kusama, who continues to work out of a psychiatric hospital in Japan, has been the subject of major retrospectives in recent years, as art critics have begun to acknowledge her unique body of work and the seminal role it played in the development of contemporary art.