Kazuo Oda

1947 -
  • Lacquerware
  • Price Range $3,500 - 9,000
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    • Category
      Lacquerware
    • Techniques
      Carved lacquer, Dry lacquer
    • Born
      1947 -
    • Membership
      Research member, Japan Kogei Association
      Traditional Craftsman of traditional craft Murakami Kibori Tsuishu (carved lacquerware) (2014)
      Designated as Master of the Forest by the National Land Afforestation Promotion Organization (2014)
      Director of the Japan Cultural Property Lacquer Association

    Style

    Production of tea ceremony utensils, such as cloth-covered plain tea caddies, elaborately-coated red lacquerware with patterns in relief, and layered-lacquer incense containers

    Biography

    • 1966
      Sohdosha, Kanda
    • 1971
      Lacquerer at Murakami Buddhist Alter
    • 1974
      Became an independent lacquer painter
    • 1983
      Selected for the Traditional Kōgei New Works Exhibition for the first time held at Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store (selected 26 times)
      Musashino Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
    • 1985
      Submitted to the 2nd Lacquerware Traditional Kōgei Exhibition held at Seibu Ikebukuro for the first time (selected 17 times from this year onward)
      Submitted to the Niigata Art Exhibition at the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History in '88 and '89
    • 1989
      Submitted to the Niigata Traditional Kōgei Exhibition at Niigata Mitsukoshi
    • 1996
      Solo Exhibition in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture
    • 1998
      Trainee in lacquer refining for the Cultural Property Conservation Technologist Training Program 1998 held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs
    • 1999
      Solo Exhibition in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture
      Niigata Craft Artists Exhibition at Isetan, Niigata
    • 2001
      Solo Exhibition at Niigata Mitsukoshi (2003, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012)
    • 2013
      Restored 3 pieces of lacquerware excavated from the Wakeyachi A Ruins in Tainai City
    • 2014
      Designated as Traditional Craftsman in lacquer painting of traditional craft Murakami Kibori Tsuishu (carved lacquerware)
      Designated as Master of the Forest by the National Land Afforestation Promotion Organization
      Submitted restored pieces of lacquerware excavated from the Wakeyachi Ruins ”Mastering Ever-changing – Baskets and woodwork of the Jomon and Yayoi Period" exhibition at the Oita City Historical Museum
    • 2019
      Kazuo Oda Lacquerware Exhibition at Tainai Art Museum in commemoration of the donation of the 3 restored pieces of lacquerware excavated from the Wakeyachi A Ruins
      ”A New Form – Artists of Niigata" Exhibition at Niitsu Art Museum (Niigata)

    Awards

    • 1995
      Received the Niigata Nippo Art Promotion Award at the 24th Niigata Art Exhibition

    Public Collections

    • Tainai Art Museum
    • * Donated 3 restored pieces of lacquerware excavated from the Wakeyachi A Ruins in 2018 (former Kurokawa Village)
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