Lucas Odahara’s practice engages with a variety of media including writing, drawing, ceramic glaze painting, moving image, and public installation. 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.
His work has been seen at many exhibitions, including: Neue Berliner Kunsverein (n.b.k.), Berlin (2024); David Peter Francis gallery, New York (2024); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2023); TaxisPalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Austria (2023); Kleinplastik Triennial Fellbach (2022); OPENART Biennial, Sweden (2022); Cultural Center of Belgrade (2022); Berlinische Galerie (2021); Bärenzwinger, Berlin (2021); Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim (2020); Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan (2019); Schwules Museum, Berlin (2017); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2016); Weserburg Bremen (2015) and Künstlerhaus Bremen (2015). In 2022 he was awarded with the Berlin Art Prize and he is currently a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy in the Netherlands.