All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 2016. Yayoi Kusama. Wood, mirror, plastic, acrylic, and LED. Dallas Museum of Art, TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art Fund, 2018.12.A–I. ©YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner.

Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins
Closing Sunday, October 18, 2026
953 Eden Park Drive

Don’t miss your chance to step into Yayoi Kusama’s mesmerizing world before it closes October 18 at the Cincinnati Art Museum! All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016) transforms an array of glowing yellow pumpkins adorned with black polka dots into an immersive, mirror-lined installation that creates the illusion of an infinite field. As visitors enter the space, they become part of Kusama’s captivating vision, enveloped in an infinite sea of luminous pumpkins.

All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins illustrates Kusama’s characteristic themes, including infinity and obsessive repetition. The artist has described the pumpkin—one of her quintessential symbols—as a form of self-portraiture. A rare assemblage of a dozen Pumpkin acrylic paintings on canvas made between 1990-2004 will also greet gallery visitors, courtesy of the Masterworks Foundation.

Kusama’s career spans more than seven decades, and her Infinity Mirror Rooms are some of her most experimental and iconic works, often incorporating a variety of illuminated objects. Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field (1965) was Kusama’s first installation to use mirrors to create a sense of endless space, featuring a floor covered in hundreds of red-spotted, white fabric-stuffed tubes. Kusama’s mirrored installations represented an innovative step in the emergence of an increasingly experiential practice. In each work, the visitor’s reflection seems to extend into infinity while they simultaneously have an intimate and individualized room experience.

All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins draws on Kusama’s seminal pumpkin room, Mirror Room (Pumpkin) (1991), which was shown at for the Japanese Pavilion at the 1993 Biennale Arte in Venice.

Please note that daytime tickets are now sold out through Sunday, October 18, however, tickets for free admission hours on Thursday evening will be available at 11am the day-of and are expected to sell out within minutes.

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