Yasuhiro ODANAKA
Biographical Notes
1963 Born in Osaka
1988 Complated the Master Program of Kyoto City University of Arts
1990-91 Studied in Italy at L’Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli,
under scholarship of Italian Goverment
Solo Exhibitions
1987 “The World According to KARASU-TENGU” Gallery HAKU, Osaka
1988 “The Shamans of Light” Gallery 16, Kyoto
1989 “Barbarian’s Surprise” Gallery TAKA, Kyoto
1993 “Tapestry of Saga” Gallery 16, Kyoto
1997 “Graphic Works on Ship Workers” Fuji-Maru Gallery,
Shosen-Mitsui-Kyakusen
2003 “URLICHT - The Primal Light” Gallery SOWAKA, Kyoto
2008 “The Paintings in 1987 - Rhinoceros, Whale and Karasu-Tengu”
Gallery 16, Kyoto
2013 “EASTER” Gallery 16, Kyoto
Selected Group Exhibitions
1984 Two men show ”anthropometrie” w/Nobuaki Watanabe
(Gallery SUZUKI, Kyoto)
1986 Honesty of ‘Sotatsu’ (Gallery HAKU, Osaka)
YES ART 5 (Gallery HAKU, Osaka/Gallery Erea Duix, Fukuoka)
Art Front Vol. 2 (PARCO- Shinsaibashi, Osaka)
FUJIYAMA-GEISHA 5 (Kyoto City University Of Arts Gallery/
DAIKO-DENKI Lighting Lab, Tokyo)
1987 TRANCE-ART SCENE Ⅱ (Gallery 16, Kyoto)
Artists Today [Phases] (Yokohama Citizen Gallery)
1988 ART NOW '88 (Hyogo Prefectural Museum Of Modern Art )
Paintings Now - Osaka '88
(Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Art Center)
BIO-STRUCTION (Gallery TAKA, Kyoto)
Critical Points in Art - Phases ‘88 (Gallery Muramatsu, Tokyo)
1989 NIPPON/RIMPA-School (Fukuoka Municipal Museum)
1991 Two Men Exhibition ”GLASOVI, TISINE” w/Jose Slak
(Gallery EQURNA, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA)
1994 VOCA – The Vision of Contemporary Art
(The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo)
Contemporary Art from Galleries '94
(Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Art Center)
1997 Drawings by 6 Artists (Gallery SOWAKA, Kyoto)
2004 SAJI & YOJI (Cafe & Gallery HANARE, Kawanishi, Hyogo)
2005 Two Men Show w/Katsuo Tachi (Gallery HAKU 3, Osaka)
2010 The Pleasure of Painting (Gallery HAKU, Osaka)
2011 Paintaliness 2011 (Gallery HAKU, Osaka)
2012 Paintaliness 2012 (Gallery Haku, Osaka)
2013 Paintaliness 2013 (Gallery HAKU, Osaka)
2014 Paintaliness 2014 (Gallery Haku, Osaka)
2015 Paintaliness 2015 (Gallery Haku, Osaka)
2016 The Advent of RINPA - Touring the "RINPA CODE" of the
Pre-Modern/Modern/Contemporary
(Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art)
Lives and Works in Kyoto, Japan