Lucas Odahara
Based between São Paulo and Berlin
2025 (solo) David Peter Francis gallery (New York, USA)
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
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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.
WINDS OF ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2025 Memory, in Texture: Where the Imagined Holds the World Together
Traços, 2026 Photo by Nagano Satoshi
Traços, 2026 Photo by Nagano Satoshi
Traços, 2026 Photo by Nagano Satoshi
Traços, 2026 Photo by Nagano Satoshi
Traços, 2026 Photo by Nagano Satoshi
Traços, 2026 Photo by Nagano Satoshi
Traços, 2026 Photo by Nagano Satoshi
Interaction Diary
February 3 Second Visit to Yame city
Odahara visited several places to conduct research focusing on washi in Yame, including Shiraki Kougei, where they make structural designs of traditional Yame lanterns, Ito Gonziro Shoten, an old lantern shop launched in 1815, and the Matsuo Washi Kobo, a washi craft studio that has more than a hundred years of history.
February 1 Visit to Yame city
After experiencing handmade washi at the Yame Traditional Crafts Center, the artist visited Hana-goyomi, an antique shop, where the owner Minematsu gave him a tour in the storage and explained architectural shifts found on the doors built between Taisho and early Showa era. Later in the Gallery Ki to Te, Odahara saw a variety of works intricately crafted from washi. Many kinds of washi papers that he saw at the Matsuo Washi Kobo also left him with a big motivation. At the end of the day, Odahara went to see the exhibition of the Kyu-Kaminosho (Former Kaminosho School) Residency Program, where he met the invited artists for 2025, Ikenana and Hanada Tomohiro.
January 20 Research on Hakata Culture
Visited Hakata Machiya Folk Museum, Hakataori Kogeikan, and Iki Shrine. Through by seeing folk crafts passed down to merchant families or the making-demonstration of traditional crafts, he had a better understanding in Hakata from historical and cultural perspective.
January 15 First Meeting in Artist Cafe Fukuoka
Odahara arrived in Fukuoka on January 13th and two days later he joined a meeting in Artist Cafe Fukuoka to discuss his work during the residency.
