Motohik Odani
Motohik Odani
- 1972
- Born in Kyoto, Japan
- 1995
- B.A., Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music, Tokyo
- 1997
- M.A., Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music, Tokyo
- 2012
- Stayed in New York (Granted by Asian Cultural Council)
- 1997
- Phantom-Limb, P-House, Tokyo (Cat.)
- 1998
- Transfiguration, Rötgen Kunstraum, Tokyo
- 2001
- En Melody, Fine Art Rafael Vostell, Berlin
En Melody, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milano - 2002
- 9th Room, Gallery RAKU, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto (Cat.)
- 2004
- Modification, Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka (Cat.)
ERECTRO, YAMAMOTO gallery, Tokyo
RETROSPECTIVE, TAKAHASHI collection, Tokyo - 2007
- SP2 New Born, YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo
- 2009
- SP4 'the specter' in modern sculpture, YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo
Hollow, Maison Hermès 8F Le Forum, Tokyo (Cat.) - 2010
- PHANTOM LIMB, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (Cat.)
- 2011
- PHANTOM LIMB, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka/
Takamatsu City Museum of Art/
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto（Traveling exhibition） - 2012
- The 25th Hirakushi Denchu prize ‘SP 0’ Motohiko ODANI,
IBARA MUNICIPAL DENCHU ART MUSEUM, Okayama - 2013
- Time Tomb, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
Circle of Disruption, TKG Plus, Taipei, Taiwan (Cat.) - 2014
- Terminal Moment, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto (Cat.)
- 2016
- Depth of the Body, Albertz Benda, New York
- 2019
- Tulpa –Here is me, ANOMALY, Tokyo
- 1995
- Pool 2, Röntgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo
- 1996
- Morphe'96, Spiral, Tokyo
- 1997
- 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.) - 1998
- Reality, Tama Vivant '98, Tama Art University, Tokyo (Cat.)
Presumed Innocence, maria Arte Contemporanea, Italy (Cat.) - 1999
- 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.) - 2000
- 5th Biennale de Lyon, Art Contemporain, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon (Cat.)
Department Store of Contemporary Art,
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi (Cat.) - 2001
- Sonsbeek 9 Locus/Focus, Eusebius Church, Arnhem, Netherlands (Cat.)
Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Cat.)/ Quens Modern Museum, New York
7th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
EGOFUGAL from 7th International Istanbul Biennale, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo (Cat.) - 2002
- Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (Cat.)
Cast Cycle, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
Private Luxury, Manno Art Museum, Osaka (Cat.) - 2003
- 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.) - 2004
- 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 - 2005
- 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 - 2006
- 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.) - 2007
- 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.) - 2008
- 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.) - 2009
- 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 - 2010
- 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 - 2011
- 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 - 2012
- 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 - 2013
- 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 - 2014
- 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 - 2015
- 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.) - 2016
- ECCE HOMO: The Human Images in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka(Cat.)
LADY DIOR AS SEEN BY, HOUSE OF DIOR, 香港
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 - 2017
- 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 - 2018
- 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 - 2019
- Yokohama Museum of Art Collection Rhythm, Resonance, Noise, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
- 1999
- Project prize, Guarene Arte 99, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo PerL'arte, Torino, Italy
- 2004
- International Jury Travel Prize, Roppongi Crossing, Tokyo
- 2006
- Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize Encouragement Award, Kyoto
- 2011
- Hirakushi Denchu Prize, Okayama
- 2012
- The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artist of Fine Art, Tokyo
- 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
- SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, Tokyo
- IINO KAIUN KAISHA, LTD
- Christian Dior, Tokyo
Commission works