Curriculum Vitae
Motohiko ODANI 小谷 元彦
- 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
- 2012
- Stayed in New York (Granted by Asian Cultural Council)
Prize
- 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
Solo Exhibitions
- 1997
- Phantom-Limb, P-House, Tokyo
- 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
- 2004
- 2004 Modification, Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka
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 - 2010
- PHANTOM LIMB, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
- 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 - 2014
- Terminal Moment, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
- 2016
- Depth of the Body, Albertz Benda, New York
- 2019
- Tulpa –Here is me, ANOMALY, Tokyo
- 2021
- The Lionman, Oita Prefectural Art Museum Atrium, Oita
- 2023
- invasion, ANOMALY, Tokyo
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 Fine 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, Kyongju / Sonje Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Guarene Arte 99, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo PerL’arte, Torino, Italy
Net_Condition, NTT Inter Communication Center (ICC), Tokyo
Ground Zero Japan, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi (~2000) - 2000
- 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 / Quens Modern Museum, New York
7th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
EGOFUGAL from 7th International Istanbul Biennale, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo - 2002
- Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
Cast Cycle, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
Private Luxury, Manno Art Museum, Osaka - 2003
- 2003 Heterotopias; Japanese Pavillion, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice
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 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
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
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
The difference between you and me, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Chimerical Garden, YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo - 2006
- 2006 ARS 06, 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
- 2007 Skin of/in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture of Japan, Beijing, Guangzhou
Sculpture of Story, Tokyo National University of Art and Music, Tokyo
- 2008
- The Masked Portrait, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
When Lives Become Form, Museu de Arte Moderna De Sao Paulo, Brazil
‘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)
MOT Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
tezuka gane Light in the Darkness, PARCO Shibuya, Tokyo (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 Beijing, Beijing
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
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
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
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia/
Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Collection of Ohara Museum of Art, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido
Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past, Asian Art Museum,
San Francisco
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
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
Sleeping Beauty, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Ohara Contemporary at Musabi, Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo
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
Drawing 04, Shibuya Gallery,Tokyo
COSMOS – INTIME La collection Takahashi - 2016
- ECCE HOMO: The Human Images in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
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
A Concise Guide to Life with Japanese Contemporary Art,Takamatsu Art Museum, Takamatsu
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
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
Japanorama. A new vision on art since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
Serpentiform, BVLGARI ArtScience Museum, Singapore
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
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
15th Anniversary Exhibition Where We Now Stand ーIn Order to Map the Future [2], 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
THE DORAEMON EXHIBITION, Osaka Cultural Center ・ Tempozan (become Osaka Aquarium), Osaka - 2020
- PUBLIC DEVICE – Symbolism and Permanence of Sculpture, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo (Direction/Curation/Organization)
THE Doraemon (group exhibition), The Niigata Bandaijima Museum of Art, Niigata - 2021
- THE Doraemon Exhibition FUKUSHIMA 2021, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima
Fragmented Bodies III: Figuring Renewal, albertz benda, New York
THE Doraemon Exhibition KYOTO 2021, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
Omni Sculptures, Musashino Art University Museum, Tokyo
THE Doraemon (group exhibition), Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido - 2022
- MODE SURREAL – A Crazy Love for Wearing, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo
Real no Yukue (Where the realism is heading), The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan (Travel to Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi; Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama; Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima; Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata; Kurume City Art Museum, Fukuoka)
THE Doraemon Exhibition OKAYAMA 2022, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Art & New ecology, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
MAM Collection 015: Welcome to the Fairyland – Yanagi Miwa, Odani Motohiko, Yoo Seungho and Nawa Kohei, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Reborn-Art Festival 2021-22 – Altruism and Fluidity, Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan
Setouch Triennale 2022: KONBO-YA, Megijima, Kagawa, Japan
A Gateway to possible worlds. Art & science fiction, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
THE Doraemon Exhibition Singapore 2022, National Museum of Singapore,Singapore
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, Museum of contemporary art Tokyo, Tokyo - 2023
- ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO 2023, Shoseien (Kikokutei), Kyoto
I LOVE ART 17 “Play Play Art”, WATARI-UM, Tokyo
Art in Love with Design ♡ Design Envious of Art, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Ryutaro Takahashi Collection “Art de Cha Cha Cha – Exploring the DNA of Japanese Contemporary Art”, WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo
Masaki Ota Collection, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
The Houses Of The Serpent Bearer – The 12th House; Johanna Odersky & Motohiko Odani,
Lucas Hirsch Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
THE Doraemon Exhibition NAGASAKI 2023, Huis Ten Bosch Museum, Nagasaki, Japan - 2024
- Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+, Hong Kong
Hyakunengo Art Festival ~Environment and Desire~, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan
THE Doraemon Exhibition SHANGHAI 2024, iag Art Cinema Line, Shanghai, China
A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
LOVE Fashion: In Search of Myself, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto
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
- Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Oita
Commission works
- SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, Tokyo
- IINO KAIUN KAISHA, LTD
- Christian Dior, Tokyo
- Oita Prefectural Government
Others
- 2013
- Display In collaboration with Alexander McQueen at new store in Roppongi Hills