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Professor

Motohiko Odani

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Profile

1972

1995

1997

2012

Born in Kyoto, Japan

B.A., Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music, Tokyo

M.A., Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music, Tokyo

Stayed in New York  (Granted by Asian Cultural Council)

Solo Exhibitions

1997

1998

2001

2002

2004

2007

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2016

2019

"Phantom-Limb" / P-House, Tokyo [Cat.]

"Transfiguration"/ Rötgen Kunstraum, Tokyo

"En Melody" / Fine Art Rafael Vostell, Berlin
"En Melody" / Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milano

"9th Room" / Gallery RAKU, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto [Cat.]

"Modification" / Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka [Cat.]
"ERECTRO" / YAMAMOTO gallery, Tokyo
"RETROSPECTIVE" / TAKAHASHI collection, Tokyo

"SP2 New Born" / YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo

"SP4 'the specter' in modern sculpture" / YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo
"Hollow" / Maison Hermès 8F Le Forum, Tokyo [Cat.]

"PHANTOM LIMB" / Mori Art Museum, Tokyo [Cat.]

"PHANTOM LIMB" / Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
          / "Takamatsu City Museum of Art"
          / Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto(Traveling exhibition)

"The 25th Hirakushi Denchu prize ‘SP 0’ Motohiko ODANI"
                / IBARA MUNICIPAL DENCHU ART MUSEUM, Okayama

"Time Tomb" / Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
"Circle of Disruption" / TKG Plus, Taipei, Taiwan [Cat.]

"Terminal Moment" / Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto [Cat.]

"Depth of the Body" / Albertz Benda, New York

"Tulpa –Here is me" / ANOMALY, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

1995

1996

1997

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2019

"Pool 2" / Röntgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo

"Morphe'96" / Spiral, Tokyo

"Tanagokoro 2 -Works on the plam-" / Röntgen Kunstraum, Tokyo
"Martin" / 146 Top of Floor Brick Rane, Atlantis, London
"Potential of Sculpture" / Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music, Tokyo [Cat.]

"Reality" / Tama Vivant '98, Tama Art University, Tokyo [Cat.]
"Presumed Innocence" / maria Arte Contemporanea, Italy [Cat.]

"VOCA," / The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo [Cat.]
"Fancy Dance" / Art Sonje Museum, Kyongju / Sonje Art Center, Seoul, Korea [Cat.]
"Guarene Arte 99" / Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo PerL'arte, Torino, Italy [Cat.]
"Net_Condition" / NTT Inter Communication Center (ICC), Tokyo
"Ground Zero Japan" / Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi (-2000) [Cat.]

"5th Biennale de Lyon, Art Contemporain" / Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon [Cat.]
"Department Store of Contemporary Art"

               / Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi [Cat.]

"Sonsbeek 9 Locus/Focus" / Eusebius Church, Arnhem, Netherlands [Cat.]
"Translated Acts" / Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin [Cat.]

         / Queens Modern Museum, New York
"7th International Istanbul Biennale" / Istanbul
"EGOFUGAL from 7th International Istanbul Biennale"

                        / Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo [Cat.]

"Gwangju Biennale" / Gwangju [Cat.]
"Cast Cycle" / SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
"Private Luxury" / Manno Art Museum, Osaka [Cat.]

"Heterotopias; Japanese Pavillion, 50th Venice Biennale" / Venice [Cat.]

"Kunst Film Biennale" / Köln
"The Petting Zoo" / Buena Vista Bldg. Miami design district, Miami
"Bloom" / The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand [Cat.]

"Roppongi Crossing" / Mori Art Museum, Tokyo [Cat.]
"Mediarena" / The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand [Cat.]
"Strategies of Desire" / Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland [Cat.]
"Happy-Go-Lucky" / VHDG Stichting V/H de Gemeente, Netherlands
"Collapsed Bodies" / YAMAMOTO gallery, Tokyo
"Tokyo Style: Motohiko ODANI" / Moderna Museet, Stockholm

"The World is a Stage: Stories Behind Pictures" / Mori Art Museum, Tokyo [Cat.]

"Next Project at Site" / Site Gallery, Sheffield
"Becoming Animal"

         / Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts [Cat.]
"Chikaku: Time and Memory in Japan" / Kunsthaus Graz [Cat.]

                   / Museum of Contemporary Art Vigo, Spain [Cat.]
"Visions of the Body 2005" / SEOUL MUSEUM OF ART, Seoul [Cat.]
"GUNDAM -Generating Futures-"

          / Suntory Museum Tenpozan, Osaka / The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

          / Sendai mediatheque, Miyagi, KAWARA MUSEUM, Aichi

          / Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo

          / Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kyoto  [Cat.]
"The difference between you and me" / The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne [Cat.]
"Chimerical Garden" / YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo

"ARS 06" / Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland [Cat.]

"Chikaku: Time and Memory in Japan"

                 / The Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa [Cat.]
"Hybridity: The Evolution of Species and Spaces in 21st-Century Art"

                               / 21C Museum, Kentucky
"Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary"

                         / Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori [Cat.]

"Skin of/in Contemporary Art" / The National Museum of Art, Osaka [Cat.]

"Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture of Japan, Beijing"

                                   / Guangzhou [Cat.]
"Sculpture of Story" / Tokyo National University of Art and Music, Tokyo [Cat.]

"The Masked Portrait" / Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"When Lives Become Form" / Museu de Arte Moderna De Sao Paulo, Brazil (Cat.)
"neoteny japan (Contemporary Artists After 1990’s – From Takahashi Collection)"

   / Kirishima, Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima / Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo

   / (09’) The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

   / The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata

   / Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita / Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori

   / The Museum of Art, EHIME (Traveling exhibition) [Cat.]
"MOT Collection" / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
"Tezuka gane Light in the Darkness"

                  / PARCO Shibuya, Tokyo (Traveling exhibition) [Cat.]

"New collection" / Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
"What Lurks in Wood" / The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Dorodoro Doron - The Uncanny World in Folk and Contemporary Art in Asia"

             / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima [Cat.]
"MI VIDA. From Heaven to Hell" / MUeCSARNOK, Budapest
"Parabiosis" / Soka Art Center Beijing, Beijing [Cat.]
"TWIST and SHOUT Contemporary Art from Japan"

                      / Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Thailand

"The Doors of Perception" / Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
"New colle Shizuoka" / Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
"RESONANCE" / Suntory Museum Tenpozan, Osaka [Cat.]
"Go Figure: Five Contemporary Videos" / Asia Society Museum, New York
"Tokyo Art Meeting Transformation" / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
"Pop Art in Korea, China, Japan" / National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

"BYE BYE KITTY!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art"

                         / JAPAN SOCIETY GALLERY, New York
"BAD Exhibition" / PIN gallery, Beijing
"Shuffle" / YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo
"Chengdu Biennale 'Pure Views: Contemporary Art Exhibition' "

                     / Chengdu Industrial Civilization Museum [Cat.]
"Takahashi Collection X BRUTUS (KOBIKEN ha ikiteiru)"

                           / TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

"Collection Exhibition" / Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
"Fairy Tales"

   / Monsters and the Genetic Imagination, First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville

   / Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

   / Glenbow Art Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada [Cat.]
"Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan"

     / Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia / Haifa Museum of Art, Israel [Cat.]
"Collection of Ohara Museum of Art"

                  / Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido [Cat.]
"Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past"

                       / Asian Art Museum, San Francisco [Cat.]
"Necrospective" / Danielle Arnaud, London, UK / Catalyst Arts, Belfast, UK

         / Grand Union, Birmingham, UK
"MEDIATIONS BIENNALE 2012" / National Museum in Poznan, Poland
"Project Daejeon 2012: Energy" / Daejeon Museum of Art, Korea

"Re:Quest-Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s"

                    / Museum of Art Seoul National University, Seoul
"Memento Mori ~Eros and Thanatos~" / YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo
"Ohara Contemporary" / Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama [Cat.
]
"Lady Dior As Seen By" / Pier 4, Central, Hong Kong
"Borderline" / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

"Mindfulness! TAKAHASHI COLLECTION 2014" / Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya [Cat.]
"Sleeping Beauty" / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
"Ohara Contemporary at Musabi"

               / Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo [Cat.]
"Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection Chronicle 1995-"

                          / Museum of Contemporary art Tokyo
"DUALITY OF EXISTENCE - POST FUKUSHIMA" / Friedman Benda, New York
"DOMMUNE University of the Arts -Tokyo Arts Circulation-"

                      / 3331 Arts Chiyoda 1F main gallery, Tokyo
"ESPRIT DIOR" / Tamaya AS Builing, Ginza, Tokyo

"The Exhibition of the Yokohama Museum of Art: Collection 2015 part1
     Thinking with the Body: Ways of Relating to the Body in Contemporary Art"

                        / Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
"Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron" / Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo [Cat.]
"Drawing 04" / Shibuya Gallery, Tokyo
"COSMOS - INTIME La collection Takahashi" / [Cat.]

"ECCE HOMO: The Human Images in Contemporary Art"

                      / The National Museum of Art, Osaka [Cat.]
"LADY DIOR AS SEEN BY" / HOUSE OF DIOR, Hong Kong
"Hong Kong Arts Centre 4th Annual Collectors’ Contemporary Collaboration

    Intimate Curiosity—Invitation to Japanese Collectors of Contemporary Art"

                      / Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong [Cat.]
"A Concise Guide to Life with Japanese Contemporary Art"

                      / Takamatsu Art Museum, Takamatsu [Cat.]
"Temporal Turn" / Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas
"Rediscovering Three-Dimensional Art in Japan"

                     / Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka

"Ghost (group exhibition)" / Daegu Art Museum, Korea [Cat.]
"The Expressive Power of White" / Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
"THE Doraemon (group exhibition)"

    / Mori Art Museum, Tokyo / Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama
    / Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Aichi / Osaka Culturarium at Tepmpozan, Osaka [Cat.]
"Japanorama. A new vision on art since 1970" / Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
"Serpentiform" / BVLGARI  ArtScience Museum, Singapore [Cat.]
"Special Project Commemorating the 130th Anniversary of Tokyo University of
the Arts  

  – 'Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.' "

                                        / Tokyo
"Serpentiform" / BVLGARI, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo [Cat.]
"Riddle of Art – Takahashi Collection" / Shizuoka

"HIROHIKO ARAKI JOJO EXHIBITION: RIPPLES OF ADVENTURE"

       / The National Art Center, Tokyo / Osaka Culturarium at Tepmpozan, Osaka
"Sculpted In Time -Narrative Existence-"

            / The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

"Yokohama Museum of Art Collection Rhythm, Resonance, Noise"

                         / Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa

Grants and Awards

1999

2004

2006

2011

2012

Project prize, Guarene Arte 99, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo PerL'arte

                                     / Torino, Italy

International Jury Travel Prize, Roppongi Crossing / Tokyo

Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize Encouragement Award / Kyoto

Hirakushi Denchu Prize / Okayama

The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art   

                Encouragement Prize for New Artist of Fine Art / Tokyo

Public Collections

  • TAKAHASHI COLLECTION / Tokyo

  • 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art / Kanazawa

  • MUSAC- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León / Spain

  • Ohara Museum of Art / Okayama

  • Toyota Municipal Museum of Art / Toyota

  • Asia Society Museum / New York

  • The National Museum of Art / Osaka

  • Takamatsu City Museum Of Art / Takamatsu

  • Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

  • Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

  • Burger COLLECTION / Zurich, Switzerland

  • Mori Art Museum / Tokyo

  • Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum / Okayama

  • M+ / Hong Kong

  • Daegu Art Museum / Korea

Commission Works

  • SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation / Tokyo

  • IINO KAIUN KAISHA, LTD. / Tokyo

  • Christian Dior / Tokyo

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