Kusama died in a Tokyo hospital on Aug. 14, her studio said, leaving a body of work that stretched from avant-garde painting and performance to immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms.

Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist whose polka dots, pumpkins and mirrored installations became among the most recognizable images in contemporary art, has died at 97.

Kusama died Aug. 14 at a hospital in Tokyo, according to an announcement from Yayoi Kusama Studio. Her death was made public on Aug. 27. The studio did not give a cause of death.

Across a career spanning decades, Kusama moved among painting, sculpture, installation, performance, fiction and poetry. Her repeating dot and net motifs, often rendered in saturated color, turned private obsessions into an expansive visual language. Her Infinity Mirror Rooms later drew vast museum audiences with reflections that create the sensation of boundless space.

Born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929, Kusama became a central figure in New York’s avant-garde during the late 1950s and 1960s before returning to Japan. Her work was exhibited internationally, including at major New York museums, and she received Japan’s Order of Culture in 2016.

Her studio said Kusama continued painting until her final days. The announcement described her practice as a lifelong pursuit of art and said her work would continue to carry her message to audiences around the world.