YAYOI KUSAMA

One of the world's most important contemporany female artists, Yayoi Kusama and her crazy spot deigns ere everywhere in 2012. The Tate in London held the biggest ever exhibition of her work, and in Paris her art is all over Louis Vuitton's store on the Champs-Elysées after she collaborated on a bag design. It's not bad for semebody who has lived in a Tokyo psychiatric hospital for the past 36 years.