Miori Odamaki
Pronouns: She/Her
Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan
Raised within Japanese classical traditions and educated in Western academic art, Miori Odamaki’s practice bridges two visual philosophies.
Her work centers on four interconnected themes: the boundary between life and death, time as accumulated trace, the layered structure of consciousness, and the solitude inherent in human existence.
Rather than illustrating these ideas, each painting becomes a space in which they are held in quiet tension.
In her work presented in 2013, I noticed some pantheistic hues. The Odamaki ensemble presented solo this year offers much more today, while remaining in the sharpness of a more general spiritualist impregnation. I noticed first the beautiful unity of tone, strengthened by the omnipresence of a sumptuous color, a red. Each painting seems to me to be a small spiritual adventure emanating from the richness of the artist’s inner world, enriched by her observations, her reverie, perhaps even her memories and even her obsessions. I believe I can relate it to a great Surrealist painter less well known than Dali or Milo, but whose work is important. It is the Jaques Herold whose aerial, fluids, sometimes fluctuating forms are appreciated. Some works by Odamaki could be similar to the automatic writing experience.
Art Critic / Roger Bouillot (France)
Education
Musashino Art University – Department of Painting, Tokyo, Japan
Recent Activity
• Salon d’Automne 2022 August 11 – 21 /Salon d’Automne Japon – Japan-France Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition at The National Art Center, Tokyo (Roppongi, Tokyo)
Awards
• 2018 1st place award – Salon d’Automne Japon – Japan-France Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition (NACT**/Tokyo, Japan)
• 2016 UNESCO’s official trophy awarded in honor of art cultural exchange in Japan and Egypt and national municipalities participating in a celebration of Egyptian history and culture at UNESCO headquarters, Paris
• 2015 MAIMERI award – Salon d’Automne Japon – Japan-France Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition (NACT**/Tokyo, Japan)
Past
• 2013-2024 /Salon d’Automne Japon – Japan-France Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition at The National Art Center, Tokyo** (Roppongi, Tokyo) [2015/2018 award]
• 2014, 2015, 2017 / Salão de Outono da América Latina – The Latin America Memorial* (São Paulo, Brazil)
• 2012-2017, 2019-2021 / Japanese Today’s Visual Art Exhibition (Farm Culture Park***, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Finland, and Croatia)
• 2014 / 28th The Paris International Art Exhibition – Solo section at Le Loft Sévigné and Galerie du Marais (Paris, France)
• 2008-2013 / [Group] CC’s Exhibition at Mireya Gallery (Ginza, Tokyo)
• 2013 / 2nd Exposition “Nouvelle Ecole de Paris ukiyo-e at Galerie Nikki and Galerie du Marais (Paris, France)
• 2013 / [Solo] The Crouise Exhibition “Organic Series” at Gallery Gekkoso (Ginza, Tokyo)
• 2010 / [Solo] Cruise Exhibition at Ichigaya Kameoka Hachimangu (Shrine / Shinjuku, Tokyo) Mireya Gallery (Ginza, Tokyo) and Kyo-ou-ji (Temple, Shinjuku, Tokyo – Collaborative Exhibition with Contemporary dancer (Butoh) Daisuke Yoshimoto
• 2009 / [Solo] Cruise Exhibition at Ichigaya Kameoka Hachimangu (Shrine / Shinjuku, Tokyo) Mireya Gallery (Ginza, Tokyo) and Kyo-ou-ji (Temple / Shinjuku, Tokyo
* The architectural setting, designed by Oscar Niemeyer
** Designed by Kisho Kurokawa
***Designed by Salvator-John Liotta
****Designed by Hilding Ekelund
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