 Oda was also a central figure in the anti-culture movement of the Kristiania Bohemians ("Kristiania-bohemen") in the 1880s and 1890s.Her public image as the "Bohemian Princess" has to some extent obscured the impression of a competent painter.Krohg exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.