Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) is currently hosting an exhibition celebrating internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, which encompasses more than four decades of her practice.

Running until 8 June 2009, Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years is the largest showing of the pioneering artist’s work yet seen in Australia and demonstrates her enduring influence over both contemporary art circles and the worlds of fashion, film, theatre and music.

She’s been described as Japan’s greatest living artist, working across different media and forms including painting, collage, sculpture, installation and film, as well as performance and its documentation. Her work is fixated on repetition, pattern and accumulation – she describes herself as an “obsessive artist” and her work is intensely sensual, infused with autobiographical, psychological and sexual content.

Last year one of her pieces sold at an auction for $5.2 million – it was the highest price ever paid for a work by a living female artist. Not bad for a woman who recently turned 80.

Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years exhibits at the Museum Of Contemporary Art until June 8, 2009. Entry is free. Take a look at our gallery of images from the exhibition here.