Jayme Odgers, a Fulbright scholar, apprenticed under Paul Rand. Since then, he has been honored with over 100 awards of excellence in design including Gold and Silver Medal Awards and an international silver Typomundus Award for excellence in typography. Odgers was selected along with fourteen world class artists, including David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and John Baldasari, among others, to do an official poster for the 1984 Olympic Games. His work has been exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Art, Arco Center for the Visual Arts, the Albright-Knox Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museo Fortuny in Venice, Italy. His work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian s Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City and The White House in Washington, D.C. Odgers has had fourteen one-man shows and eighteen group shows across the country, and taught and lectured around the world, most recently in Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama. Odgers was recently commissioned by the Metropolitan Water District to design two public art fountains for their headquarters (next to Union Station, downtown Los Angeles).
B. 1939 |