Yoshifumi Hayashi was born in Fukuoka (Japan) in 1948. Having dropped out of university, in 1974 he moved to Paris, where, he began to produce pencil drawings. At first his main influence was the metaphisical world of De Chirico, but soon his focus shifted to the lower half of the female anatomy...
Hayashi's art comes straight from the darkest depths of his subconscious and the artist lays his innermost paranoias, fetishes and obsessions. Despite this profoundly personal quality his work is also highly and objectively erotic.

EXHIBITIONS
1978 Galerie Jaque Casanova, Paris (solo show)
1982 Galerie Jaque Casanova, Paris (solo show)
1988 Galerie Jaque Casanova, Paris (solo show)
1991 Galerie Mirage, Tokyo (solo show)
1993 Galerie Mirage, Tokyo (solo show)
1994 Galerie Les Larmes d’Eros, Paris (solo show)
1996 Striped House Museum of Art, Tokyo (solo show)
1997 FIAC, Paris
1998 Koju gallery, Kyoto (solo show)
1998 Azzlo gallery, Tokyo (solo show)
1998 Todd Kaplan, Los Angeles (solo show)
2003 "Les Foyers Infinis", Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Bologna (solo show)
2004 Musée de l’Erotisme, Paris (solo show)
2004 " Entropie Négative " Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Roma (solo show)

BOOKS
1982 100 Dessins Erotique, Borderie ed., Paris
1994 La Jeune Mariée d’un Materialiste Enciente de Cerveaux, Treville editions
1995 Traité Secrets échangés entre monsieur y, physiologiste, et un hermaphrodite vaguement séquestré dans le boudoir d’une régente mariée, Treville editions
1999 Le Carnaval pour Roméo et Juliiette, Treville editions
2003 Les Foyers Infinis, Mondo Bizzarro Press