Motohiko ODANI
1972 Born in Kyoto, Japan
1995 B.A., Tokyo National University of Art and Music, Tokyo
1997 M.A., Tokyo National University of Art and Music, Tokyo
Prize
1999 Project Award / Guarene Arte 99, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo PerL'arte (Torino, Italy)
2003 International advisory board Award, Travel Prize/ Roppongi Crossing (Mori Art Museum)
2006 Kyoto Prefecture cultural Award, Encouragement Prize (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)
Solo Exhibitions
1997 Phantom-Limb / P-House (Tokyo)
1998 Transfiguration / Röntgen 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)
2004 Modification / Kirin Plaza Osaka (Osaka)
ERECTRO / YAMAMOTO GENDAI (Tokyo)
RETROSPECTIVE / TAKAHASHI collection (Tokyo)
2007 SP2 New Born / YAMAMOTO GENDAI (Tokyo)
2009 SP4 'the specter' in modern sculpture / YAMAMOTO GENDAI (Tokyo)
Hollow / Maison Hermes 8F Le Forum (Tokyo)
2010 PHANTOM LIMB / Mori Art Museum (Tokyo)
2011 PHANTOM LIMB / Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (Shizuoka), Takamatsu city Museum of Art (Kagawa), Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto (Kumamoto)
The 25th Hirakushi Denchu Prise ‘SP 0’ Motohiko ODANI / IBARA MUNICIPAL DENCHU ART MUSEUM (Okayama)
Phantom_Limb DM
Transfiguration DM
Group Exhibitions
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 Art and Music (Tokyo)
1998 Reality –Tama Vivant '98– / Tama Art University (Tokyo)
Presumed Innocence / Maria Arte Contemporanea (Italy)
1999 VOCA / The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo)
Fancy Dance / Art Sonje Museum / Sonje Art Center, Seoul (Korea)
Guarene Arte 99 / Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo PerL'arte (Torino, Italy)
Net_Condition / NTT InterCommunication Center(ICC) (Tokyo)
Ground Zero Japan / Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito (Ibaragi)
2000 ICON / Gallery Celler (Nagoya)
5th Biennale de Lyon, Art Contemporain / Halle Tony Garnier (Lyon)
Department Store of Contemporary Art / Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art (Yamanashi)
2001 Sonsbeek 9 Locus / Focus, Eusebius Church (Arnhem, Netherlands)
Translated Acts / Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Queens Museum of Art (New York)
7th International Istanbul Biennale / (Istanbul),Tokyo Opera City Gallery(Tokyo)
2002 Gwangju Biennale / (Gwangju)
Cast Cycle / SCAI THE BATHHOUSE (Tokyo)
Private Luxury / Manno Art Museum (Osaka)
2003 50th Venice Biennale / [Heterotopias] Japanese Pavillion (Venice, Italy)
Kunst Film Biennale / (Köln)
The Petting Zoo / Buena Vista Bldg (Miami design district, Miami)
Bloom / The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Zealand)
2004 Roppongi Crossing / Mori Art Museum (Tokyo)
Mediarena / The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Zealand)
Strategies of Desire / Kunsthaus Baselland (Basel, Switzerland)
Happy-Go-Lucky / VHDG (Netherlands)
Collapsed Bodies / YAMAMOTO GENDAI (Tokyo)
Tokyo Style:Motohiko ODANI / Moderna Museet (Stockholm)
2005 The World is a Stage: Stories Behind Pictures /  Mori Art Museum (Tokyo)
Next Project at Site / Site Gallery (Sheffield)
Becoming Animal / Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Massachusetts)
Chikaku: Time and Memory in Japan / Kunsthaus (Graz), Museum of Contemporary Art Vigo (Spain)
Visions of the Body 2005 / SEOUL MUSEUM OF ART (Seoul)
The difference between you and me / The Ian Potter Museum of Art (Melbourne)
Chimerical Garden / YAMAMOTO GENDAI (Tokyo)
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)
2006 ARS06 / Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA (Helsinki, Finland)
Chikaku: Time and Memory in Japan / The Taro Okamoto Museum of Art (Kanagawa)
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 )
2007 Skin of/in Contemporary Art / The National Museum of Art (Osaka)
Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture of Japan / 798 Art Zone (Beijing), Guangdong Museum of Ar (Guangzhou)
Sculpture of Story / Tokyo National University of Art and Music (Tokyo)
2008 When Lives Become Form / Museu de Arte Moderna De Sao Paulo (Brazil)
MOT Collection / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo)
Tezuka gane Light in the Darkness / PARCO (Tokyo) 〜Traveling exhibition
N‘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) 〜Traveling exhibition
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)
MI VIDA. From Heaven to Hell / MUeCSARNOK (Budapest)
Parabiosis / Soka Art Center Beijine (Beijine)
TWIST and SHOUT Contemporary Art from Japan / Bangkok Art and Culture Center (Thailand)
2010 The Doors of Perception / Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi)
RESONANCE / Suntory Museum Tenpozan (Osaka)
Go Figure: Five Contemporary Videos / Asia Society Museum (New York)
Tokyo Art Meeting Transformation / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo)
2011 Pop Art in Korea, China, Japan / National Museum of Contemporary Art (Korea, Seoul)
BYE BYE KITTY!!! / 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 (Chengdu)
Takahashi Collection X BRUTUS (KOBIKEN ha ikiteiru) / TABLOID GALLERY (Tokyo)
2012 Collection Exhibition / Ohara Museum of Art (Okayama)
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination
/ Frist Center for the Visual Arts(Nashville,USA) / Winnipeg Art Gallery(Winnipeg,Canada) / Glenbow Art Museum (Calgary,Canada)
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan / Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia)
Collection of Ohara Museum of Art / Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Hokkaido)
Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past / Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)
ERECTRO DM
Modification DM
Heterotopias
SP2-SP4 DM
Hollow DM
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