About

Born in Yokohama, Japan, in 1970, Hina Aoyama moved to France in the early 90s where she started the paper cutting art. 

After living and cutting there for 20 years, she finally returns to Japan in 2012 where she pursued her career as an artist and teacher. 

Using carbon paper to copy pictures from catalogs, she started to learn how to cut, with a small pair of scissors, white parts of images while leaving black lines and create art. 

She then became obsessed with it and never stopped cutting, up until now. What was first intriguing to her, became her passion before becoming her life. 

After a little while, she chose to use origami paper (thinest paper in the market) with double faces (black and white), drawing and cutting her designs in the white part to get the result from the black part. 

Because the details were so high, European gallerists and artists called it a “lace paper cut art”.

During her career in France, Hina had the honor to exhibit at “Le Salon Des Artistes Français” where Van Gogh and Monet had exhibited also. 

The following year, and the year after, she won the Gold Medal at the international competition in Cannes. 

Her masterpiece “Voltaire” then won the top prize at the Paper Triennial Musse de Charmey, being the first Asian to ever win a prize there. 

All these successful events attracted many Japanese TV channels and magazines. Transforming Hina Aoyama from the artist, to a celebrity in the world of art. 

Exhibiting now all across the globe (Brazil, England, USA, France, Switzerland, Canada, Japan…) and published in more than 15 different art catalogs or books, Hina’s works are now a reference in the world of paper cut. 

This year (2021) 5 of her master-pieces will move across the United States in multiple museums for 4 years.