Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama, has spent her life resisting her family, her culture, the establishment and even the art world. Although she has worked primarily in sculpture and installation, she has also been active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She moved to the United States in 1958 and became a part of the New York avant-garde scene throughout the 1960s, especially in the pop-art movement. Yayoi embraced the rise of the hippie counterculture of the late 1960s. She came to public attention when she organized a series of happenings in which naked participants were painted with brightly colored polka dots.