Japanese painter based in Paris, known as Yoshiko (Hirasawa Yoshiko, 平沢淑子).
Life
At first a presenter on the Japanese public broadcaster NHK, she gave up this career and moved to Paris in 1974 to devote herself to painting. There she exhibited notably in 1980 at the Galerie Le Triskèle, then in the United States, Russia, Egypt and Japan. In 1985 the photographer Michiko Matsumoto photographed her in Paris for her series of portraits of women artists, now held at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.
Exhibitions and collections
The gallery showed her canvases in the exhibitions marking the centenary of Surrealism: “Surrealist Prelude” (7 June to 6 July 2024), then “The Subversion of Images” (24 January to 8 March 2025), with Pour Rodogune, 1986, oil on canvas, 110 x 100 cm.