Junko Hayakawa

Junko Hayakawa was born in 1970 in Tokyo, Japan. She studied oil painting and printmaking at Tama Art University and continued her studies at the Tama Art University Graduate School. “Donguri Roketto” (The Acorn Rocket) published in 2009 by Holp Shuppan and “Mayonaka-san” (Mr.Midnight) published in 2004 by Goburin Shobo are two picture books in which she also wrote the text herself. Her recent work entitled “Yama kara kita Sumantori to Sukosunoro” published in 2009 by Fukuinkan Shoten, is a picture book based on an Indonesian shadow puppet theater play. She also illustrated Shinji Ishii’s “Toritsukare otoko” published by Shinchosha in 2001. She has exibited her works in numerous galleries and has participated in collective exibitions such as the Blue Book Group Exhibition.