ODA, Yasuo（小田康夫）

• 2026 — Exhibition in Reykjavík, Iceland, as part of the 70th Anniversary of Japan–Iceland Diplomatic Relations.

• 2025 — Award of Excellence, New York Open-Call Art Exhibition, Art Incubation.

• 2025 — Featured in Art Investment & Collectors Guide 2025.

• 2024 — Solo Exhibition, Gallery Dojunkai, Omotesando, Tokyo.

• 1995 — Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania. Fulbright Scholar (1993).

• Over 30 years of professional architectural experience in the United States and Japan.

Beyond the City

I use the city as my subject, but my purpose is not simply to represent urban scenery. I seek to make the familiar world unfamiliar, transforming recognizable reality into something that challenges ordinary perception. Through the city, I explore remembered images, overlapping times, layered places, and the subtle twisting of reality.

I begin with photographs because they establish a direct connection to the visible world. For each city, I use photographs taken in that same location, selecting fragments of architecture, streets, and urban spaces. Through digital collage, multiple layers, transparency, and blending, I overlap different viewpoints and moments in time, dissolving conventional boundaries of space and reorganizing their relationships. The original elements remain rooted in reality, but their transformed relationships create a world that is recognizable yet impossible within ordinary physical experience.