Sculptures by Odani Motohiko

Motohiko Odani was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1972 and received an MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1997. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts. In his sculpture, photography, and video works, Odani mingles human, animal, and futuristic anatomy, exploring the boundaries of reality and myth, the physical and the spiritual.

Odani’s has exhibited widely throughout Europe and Asia; in 2003, he was selected by curator Yuko Hasegawa to represent Japan at the Venice Biennale.  He has also participated in the Lyon Biennale (2000), Istanbul Biennale (2001), and Gwanju Biennale (2002).  Major solo exhibitions include Phantom Limb (P-House), a 2010 traveling exhibition at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kawaga and the Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, and Motohiko Odani: Hollow at Maison Hermes, Tokyo.

His works can be found in the public collections of Asia Society Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan; The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, among others.