Image: Yayoi Kusama, INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM - LET'S SURVIVE FOREVER, 2017. Wood, metal, glass mirrors, LED lighting system, monofilament, stainless steel balls, and carpet, 312.4 x 624.8 x 622.9 cm. © YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy Ota Fine Arts; David Zwirner. Photo: AGO
Yayoi Kusama’s ‘INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM - LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER’ is on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto through October 25, 2026, in the Sam & Ayala Zacks Pavilion on Level 2. The installation entered the AGO Collection in 2018, under accession number 2018/28, and has remained part of the permanent collection since.
Created in 2017, the installation uses wood, metal, glass mirrors, an LED lighting system, monofilament, stainless-steel balls and carpet. It measures 312.4 by 624.8 by 622.9 centimetres. Mirrored spheres hang from the ceiling and are arranged across the floor, while a mirrored column inside the room gives visitors a view into what appears to be an infinite field of silver orbs.
The purchase was supported by more than 4,700 donors who took part in the AGO’s #InfinityAGO crowdfunding campaign, alongside the David Yuile & Mary Elizabeth Hodgson Fund and a list of named benefactors. The gallery’s published credit line records the acquisition in 2018 as 2018/28, and its donor recognition list is banded from gifts of $1 million and above down to tiers of under $25.
Kusama, born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929, worked across painting, performance, sculpture, film, fashion, design, literature and room-scale installations. She died at a hospital in Tokyo on August 14, 2026, at the age of 97, according to the announcement issued by her studio on August 27, 2026. The AGO describes her practice as engaging with both microscopic and macroscopic universes through repetition, reflection and immersive environments, and her work has been associated with the pop-art and minimalism movements.
Kusama produced her first Infinity Mirror Room in 1965. The installations developed the repeated forms found in her paintings and sculptures into environments in which mirrors create an illusion of boundless space. The AGO notes that she went on to make more than 20 unique rooms. In 1993, she represented Japan at the 45th Venice Biennale, following international recognition that expanded during the late 1980s.
At the AGO, ‘INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM - LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER’ is included with general admission, although admission does not guarantee entry. Access is first-come, first-served, with no advance reservations, and the work accommodates four people for up to 60 seconds at a time. Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult; wheelchairs can enter one at a time, while mobility scooters cannot be accommodated. The installation is scheduled to close for regular maintenance on Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 to 4:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 3 to 3:30 p.m., and the gallery warns that additional closures may occur without notice.
