Asa Hiramatsu studied Linguistics at University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo before pursuing her lifelong passion for art. Her self-taught, multidisciplinary practice spans oil painting, collage, illustration, and kamishibai. Hiramatsu’s work has been exhibited at numerous venues including 104 GALERIE and LOKO Gallery in Tokyo. She has also contributed illustrations to various publications, notably for the Japanese translation of Jonathan Swift’s 1726 novel Gulliver’s Travels, serialized weekly in The Asahi Shimbun, and later compiled into a volume titled TRAVELOGUE G: Illustrations for Gulliver’s Travels (SWITCH Publishing). In 2023 and 2024, Hiramatsu undertook an artist residency at photographer Saul Leiter’s studio in New York before contributing an essay to Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective (Thames & Hudson, USA).