Hideko Fukushima (1927-1997) was an avant-garde painter active mainly in painting since the late 1940s.
Born in Tokyo in 1927, she studied painting at Bunka Gakuin Women's College.
After graduation, she participated in the Modern Art Summer Seminar and exhibited at the Seven Yellow Rays, Bijutsu Bunka Exhibition, Women Painters Exhibition, and other exhibitions.
Over the course of seven years, while each member was engaged in a variety of activities, Fukushima played an important role in the development of the group, designing ballet stage art and costumes, and presenting paintings, reliefs, and auto-slide video works with the other members.
While Fukushima was involved in the creation of the experimental studio's comprehensive art, she also continued to develop her own unique style of painting.
From the early stage of her career, she experimented with abstract expression and, influenced by artists such as Shozo Kitadai and Nobuya Abe, she continued to search for her own original expression, and in the mid-1950s, she established a technique consisting of stamped circles (stamping), rectangles, and lines.