Selected Public Collections :
Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
Harris Museum, UK
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Musée Nationale de Cèramique, Sèvres
Musée Asiana, Geneva, Switzerland
National Gallery of Australia
Powerhouse Museum, Australia
Musée Cernuschi, France
Hetjens Museum, Germany
Museum of Asian Art, Berlin, Germany
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Japan Foundation, New York, NY
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin
Yale University Art Gallery
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Shiga Cultural Ceramic Park
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Tokoname City Museum
Seto City Art Museum, Seto
1953 Born in Seto-shi Aichi, Japan
1974 Completed Special Ceramic Study Course, Seto Ceramics Training Institute
1997 Begins work as a lecturer of the Special Study Course of Pottery,
Seto Ceramics High-school
1999 Begins work as a lecturer at Bunsei Art College
2002 Member, International Ceramics Academy
2004 Cultural Prize, Art Selection of Aichi Prefecture, Aichi
2017 Solo Show at Galerie Marianne Heller, Heidelberg
The work by Nagae has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in Japan and overseas including Toji/Avant garde et tradition du Japan at Musée Nationale de Cèramique, Sèvres and Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century at Japan Society New York in 2005. He has received many awards such as Grand Prize at Triennale de la Porcelaine Contemporarie in Nyon Switzerland and the Parmita Museum in Mie.