Hirotsune Tashima has MFA from Alfred University, NY and BFA from Osaka University of Art. He has been teaching at Pima College in Tucson since 1999. He has received numerous grants which includes Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Tucson/Pima Arts Council, Phoenix Art Museum, Rotary International and Japanese Government.
He held more than 27 solo exhibitions in various locations including NY, Tokyo and Tucson Museum of Art. He was invited or juried to participate in more than 180 group exhibitions
He also commissioned to create public art works and His artwork was collected from numbers of private and public museums