Asa Hiramatsu was born in 1982 in Tokyo. She began seriously pursuing her work as an artist in 2012, and exhibitions at art galleries have been a major element of her career. She paints landscapes residing in her inner body, depicting emotional scenes with a central motif of clouds.
She has also produced work for newspapers, magazines, and books. Her major projects include Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift, translated by Motoyuki Shibata; a series carried in the Asahi Shimbun evening paper in 2020-2021), Haruki Murakami’s speech of acceptance for the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award (MONKEY Vol.11, Switch Publishing, 2017), The Dream of the Celt (Mario Vargas Llosa, Translated by Fumiaki Noya, Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, 2021) The Palace of the White Skunks (Reynaldo Arenas, translated by Tetsuyuki Ando, Inscript, 2023), Miharashi no Yoi Jikan (Itsushi Kawase, Akaaka Art Publishing, 2024), along with many others. She has also published written pieces, such as a contributing essay for the book Saul Leiter The Centennial Retrospective (Thames & Hudson, 2023).
As an experiment in theater performance involving oil painting, she is exhibiting oil works dedicated to the new play Ano Geshi no Ban Ikinokori no Homo Sapiens wa Owaranai Yume wo Mita (performed June 6th to 12th 2024 in Tokyo), directed by Kazuyoshi Kushida of Flying Theater Jiyu Gekijo.