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Asa Hiramatsu

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1982 Born in Tokyo, Japan. Painter. She mainly works on oil paintings and presents her works at exhibitions. Her paints scenes that actually exist within her own body. She also draws cover art, illustrations, and writing for newspapers, magazines, and books. She also produced original picture-story shows and holds workshops in various locations with the “Voices and Colors of Omoitsuki” collaboration with actor Hijiri KOJIMA. Her illustration collection “TRAVELOGUE G” (Switch Publishing) will be published in 2022.

Exhibitions
2023 “Pulsating” / CLASSIC, Hakodate
2023 “Saul Leiter Japan-related Book Exhibition” / Tokyo
2022 “Waiting Landscape” / Gallery SU, Tokyo
2022 “Mapping My Seeds” / evameva yamanashi, Yamanashi
2021 “Asa Hiramatsu Exhibition” / CLASSIC, Hakodate
2020 “WAITING CLOUDS” / Gallery SU, Tokyo
2020 “Drawings“/ LOKO GALLERY, Tokyo
2020 “Things Once Mine” / Rainyday book store & cafe, Tokyo
2019 “Mapping My Seeds”/ LOKO GALLERY, Tokyo
2018 “A Cloud Floating Above the Boundary”/ Gallery SU, Tokyo
2018 “waft/ vacant” / LOKO GALLERY, Tokyo
2017 “Sign of A Scene” Ⅱ / faber LABORATORIO, Matsumoto
2017 “Sign of A Scene”/ Teradabijyutsu, Tokyo
2017 “Painting and Cooking”/ Taisho temple, Kumamoto
2017 “Asa HIRAMATSU Original Painting Exhibition” / Asobi-jyutsu, Tokyo
2017 “Asa HIRAMATSU Original Painting Exhibition” / Rainyday book store & cafe, Tokyo
2016 “Asa HIRAMATSU Painting Exhibition -Painting and Sounds- scenes” / Morioka Shoten, Tokyo
2015 “Celebrating the Publication of Yoshiyuki MORIOKA and Asa HIRAMATSU Original Painting Exhibition”/ Morioka Shoten, Tokyo

Book Illustrations
Gulliver’s Travels, Translated by Motoyuki SHIBATA (serialization in Asahi Shimbun)
MONKEY (SWITCH PUBLISHING)
coyote (SWITCH PUBLISHING)
NAMI (Shinchosha)
Subsequence (Cubism)
aruteri, No.16 Kyoji WATANABE Memorial Issue (aruteri editors)
yoshimurabungakukan, Fountain Pen Journey
Oage-san, Yoko HIRAMATSU (parco publishing)
Retelling Shakespeare 2 King Lear, Dunbar The Tragedy of the Media King, Edward St Aubyn / Trans: Takayoshi OGAWA (shueisha)
Food and Sake a style of Akira YOSHIMURA, Keiko TANIGUCHI (Shogakukanbunko)
Celtic Dream, Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa / Trans: Fumiaki NOYA (Iwanami Shoten)
Zakkanoowari, Teruoki MISHINA (Shinchosha)
KITTO ANOHITO HA NEMUTTE IRUNDAYO; Hiroshi HOMURA’s Reading Diary by Hiroshi HOMURA(Kawade Shobo Shinsha)
HON TO TENSYU, by Yoshiyuki MORIOKA(Seibundo-Shinkosha)
etc.

Artist Website
asahiramatsu.com