format gained notoriety with her exposition in the Institution of Contemporary Art in 1968. In 1970, she received the Teknoquimica Award, a recognition that solidified her ascending artistic career. A painting in 1974 transformed the vertical, biomorphically carved “hitching-post” sun stone at Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas, into a figure rising like a Maya Chac Mool. In 1975 she returned to Peru and installed public sculpture in Portugal Street, in the district of Breña. Soon after her work took on elements of fantasy and narrative, incorporating aspects of the imagery and of the mythology of the Peruvian indigenous with European influences. Tsuchiya represented Peru at the XV Bienal de São Paulo in 1979, and her work was included in the Art of the Fantastic: Latin America 1927–1987 exhibition in Indianapolis. Personal life In 1948 in Huánuco, Peru, she gave birth to her first child, Orlando Cornejo Tsuchiya. In 1963 she married her husband, Charles Mercier, a Frenchman. Tsuchiya obtained French citizenship and gave birth to her second child, Gilles Mercier Tsuchiya, the same year. List of works Paintings Arlequín (1955) Propiedad del Banco del Nuevo Mundo (en liquidación) Bodegón (1956) Músicos Andinos (1968) Cuarteto indio (1967) Aro Negro (1968) Soledad (1968) Niña en la noche (1968) Los comensales (1968) Aguas superiores (1969) Machu Picchu (1970) Bodegón con pato (1971) Guardián del viento (1971) Paraiso (1971) Canto de guerra santa (1972) La gran madre (1972) Mito de los sueños (1974) Escorpión (1974) Mujer volando (1974) El mito del pájaro y las piedras (1975) Mito del fruto (1975) Mito de la laguna (1975) Tristán e Isolda (1974–1975) El mito del guerrero rojo (1976) Mito del árbol (1976) Mito de la mujer y el vuelo (1976) Pelícano (1978) Mujer y mono (1979) La mujer de las islas (1979) Drawings Dibujo a tinta con acuarela (S/t) (1970) Macchu Picchu (1971) Dibujo a tinta con tempera (S/t) (1973) Sculptures El puma de agua (1970) Prints/Engravings Litografía (S/t) (1976) Selected Individual Exhibitions Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, 1959 Galerie Cimaise, Paris, 1966 Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, 1968 Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, 1970 Galeria Carlos Rodríquez Saavedra, Lima, 1972 Galería Enrique Camino Brent, Lima, 1980 Banco Popular del Peru, 1981 Sala de Arte Petroperu, Lima, 1984 Selected group exhibitions São Paulo Bienal, Brazil, 1979 Art of the Fantastic, Latin America, 1920–1987, Indianapolis Museum of Art (traveled), 1987 Latin American Women Artists, 1915–1995,