Lucas Odahara

Based between São Paulo and Berlin
2025 (solo) David Peter Francis gallery (New York, USA)(TBD)
2024 Residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht, Netherlands)
2024 A Home for Something Unknown, Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) (Berlin, Germany)
2023 Ich bin anders, weil ich kann das. Stranger belongs to me, Taxis Palais Kunsthalle Tirol (Innsbruck, Austria)
2022 Winner, the Berlin Art Prize
[Residence Program] Jan 13, 2026〜Mar 25, 2026 (tentative)
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Lucas Odahara is an artist working with a variety of media including ceramic glaze painting, public installation, collage and writing. His work addresses the impulse of self-recognition within structures that are ultimately restrictive, while proposing a notion of a manifold self composed from multiple histories and geographies. Nationality, language, history, race and gender are some of the places he encounters this friction between identification and disidentification.
During his residency in Fukuoka, Odahara will look at diasporic Asian identities through the metaphor of gates as thresholds by examining the architectural and cultural significance of temple gates (torii) and local residential gates. His work will incorporate themes of mixed-race identity, drawing on his family's migration from Fukuoka to Brazil in the early 20th century.