Born in Yokohama, Japan.
Since 2020 relocated to Utrecht, the Netherlands, from Munich, Germany.
Hiroko Matsushita is an illustrator and artist who predominantly uses paper, light, and shadow as a preferred medium.
Alongside her paper illustration for many commercial projects,
she explores duality and an uncertain boundary between flatness and volume, tactile and intangible.
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Press
Paper Secret, Hightone publisher Co.,Ltd, 2015
Paper Art II, Artpower International Publishing Co., Ltd, 2015
PAPER PLAY, Ginko Press, 2014
+DESIGNING. 2013 February issue (ASIN: B00AI26OO6), 2012（JP）
Discover Paper [online], 2012
PAPER WORKS, Ginko Press , 2012
Financial Times magazine, How To Spend it [online], 2011
Country Wedding Magazine, 2011
Art Glossary, Artist interview［online], 2011
Upon a fold [online], 2011
Qualification
2011 - 12 The Arts University Bournemouth (GB), MA in Illustration
2009 - 10 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (GB) Foundation Diploma in Art And Design
1998 - 02 Meiji Gakuin University (JP), BA(Hons) in International Studies
Workshop/Lecture
2017 Artcamp, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen (CZ) >> more
Exhibitions, Residency Programs
2018
Otakara - Discoveries, MICHEKO GALERIE, München (DE)
New Spaces, Gwyn's Cafe, London Derry (NI)
2017
Here and There, ladislav sutnar gallery, Pilsen (CZ)
2015
Festival svetla Plzen, Europien Capital of Culture 2015, Pilsen (CZ)
SICF16 - Spiral Art Center Independent Creators Festival, Tokyo (JP)
2014
DOGO Onsen-Art Festival, Onsen-night event, Matsuyama (JP)
SICF15 - Spiral Art Center Independent Creators Festival, Tokyo (JP)
2013
Mino Artist in Residency Program, Group exhibition, Gifu (JP)
2012
Gallery Rokujigen, Tokyo (JP)
Sex lives of the Poor and Unknown, Tallinn (EE)
EX LIBRIS, Bournemouth (GB)
Brilliance!, Poole (GB)
Wish this was, Southbourne (GB)
2011
Designers-Dream Whisperer, London (GB)
Pulse London, London (GB)
Artsmart, London (GB)
2010
Selected Group Exhibition ‘START HERE’ by V&A Museum, London (GB)
Gallery Rokujigen, Tokyo (JP)
Awards
2014 SICF15, Second Prize
