Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room– LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER


Please Review Before Making Your Purchase, Online or In Person:
Tickets for Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room- LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER  also include General Admission to the Museum. The “Infinity Room” holds a maximum of 3-4 guests at a time, for a maximum of 90 seconds. Guests under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
As tickets are timed and time slots are limited, you are encouraged to purchase your timed ticket in advance, and arrive to the “Infinity Room” at your scheduled time. Guests who purchase single tickets may be asked to join another party in the “Infinity Room” based on that day’s ticket availability.
Members of the Speed Art Museum may reserve their timed tickets for FREE.


©YAYOI KUSAMA. INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM – LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER, 2017
Courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner, Ota Fine Arts, and Victoria Miro. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario

©YAYOI KUSAMA. INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM – LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER, 2017
Courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner, Ota Fine Arts, and Victoria Miro. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario

©YAYOI KUSAMA. INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM – LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER, 2017
Courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner, Ota Fine Arts, and Victoria Miro. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario

©YAYOI KUSAMA. INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM – LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER, 2017
Courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner, Ota Fine Arts, and Victoria Miro. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario

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JULY 12, 2024 – JANUARY 12, 2025

Location: Third Floor, North Building
Venue Curator: Tyler Blackwell

The Speed Art Museum is honored to present Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room– LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER, one of the artist’s seminal immersive artworks that explores ideas of “self-obliteration” through repetition and play with space, light, color, and time. INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM — LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER (2017), which is on special loan from the Art Gallery of Ontario, envelops the visitor inside a large, mirrored space with stainless steel spheres suspended from the ceiling and arranged on the floor. The reflective spheres recall Kusama’s installation Narcissus Garden, which was first shown at the 1966 Venice Biennale. This presentation will mark the first time that a major Kusama artwork has ever been on view in Kentucky.

An icon of global contemporary art, Yayoi Kusama has eclipsed art historical categorization even as her multifaceted practice has found kinship over the decades with movements such as Minimalism, Pop Art, and Surrealism. Born in Matsumoto City, Japan, in 1929, she studied painting in Kyoto before moving to New York in the late 1950s. By the mid-1960s, Kusama had become well known in the avant-garde community for her provocative vision, exhibitions, and “happenings.” Since this time, the artist’s remarkable artistic journey has grown to span performance and live events, installation, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and film, as well as commercial design and fashion. Through Kusama’s artworks, we, too, can enter her dynamic worlds of wonder, mystery, and imagination.

Leading Sponsors:
Brooke Brown Barzun and Matthew Barzun
Victoria and Paul J. Diaz
Susan and Allan Lavin

Exhibition Season Sponsors:
Cary Brown and Steven E. Epstein
Debra and Ronald Murphy
Sociable Weaver Foundation

A free screening of Kusama: Infinity will be shown once a month in conjunction with this installation. The screenings will be in our Cinema, click here to view times offered. 

Don’t forget to check out our creative space, Infinity Lab. Created in collaboration with local creative studio, Rockerbuilt.

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room– LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER Press

Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room coming to Louisville’s Speed Art Museum, WDRB, 6.27.24

The 15 Best Things To Do In Louisville This July, LEO Weekly, 7.1.24

Speed Art Museum to open new infinity mirrored room exhibit this Friday, WDRB, 7.9.24

Speed Art Museum presents Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Room LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER, ArtDaily.com, 7.10.24

Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room comes to Speed Art Museum, WAVE 3, 7.9.24

An immersive Yayoi Kusama ‘Infinity Room’ is coming to the Speed Art Museum. Here’s what to know, Courier-Journal, 7.10.24

Speed Art Museum Brings Kentucky’s First-Ever Yayoi Kusama Infinity Room To Louisville, LEO Weekly, 7.12.24

Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Challenges the Senses at Louisville’s Speed ​​Art Museum, AlDia en America, 7.17.24

Speed Art Museum’s new exhibit explores the meaning of ‘infinity’, WAVE3 News, 7.17.24

Speed Art Museum brings sense of wonder, reflection with Japanese artist’s immersive experience, QueerKY, 7.21.24

Exploring Infinity: Yayoi Kusama’s Immersive Experience Comes to Kentucky, StoryStudio, 7.25.24

A Note to Our Community
Museums are a powerful place to address society’s most difficult issues and foster dialogue, growth and awareness. Through our exhibitions and programming, we present a wide range of art, design and visual culture from around the world, made at different times, and within various social, political and cultural contexts.

This installation of Infinity Mirrored Room – LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER by Yayoi Kusama (b. Matsumoto, 1929) marks the first time an infinity room has been presented in Kentucky, providing our community with the opportunity to experience a pioneering and historically significant work of immersive art that is deeply linked to self-inquiry and catharsis, both individual and collective.

The Speed Art Museum acknowledges that some of Yayoi Kusama’s past writings contain harmful depictions of Black people, for which she has since issued a public apology. The Speed condemns these racist, anti-Black sentiments, and is committed to cultivating a space where all members of our community feel welcome and safe. The artist’s complete statement follows below.

“I deeply regret using hurtful and offensive language in my book. My message has always been one of love, hope, compassion, and respect for all people. My lifelong intention has been to lift up humanity through my art. I apologize for the pain I have caused.”

The Speed continues to offer public programs that engage critically with and provide new context and interpretations around art. This includes exploring with openness and transparency the complicated legacies of artists whose personal choices may not always align with our values but whose art is still impactful. Information about related programming will be shared at speedmuseum.org throughout the installation.