Wada’s work can be found at the Minneapolis Institute of Art; the Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Faenza International Museum of Ceramics, Italy; Musée National de Céramique, Sèvres, France; Musée National de la Porcelaine Adrien-Dubouché, Limoges, France; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Musée Tomo, Tokyo; Kure Municipal Museum of Art, Hiroshima; Ogawa Museum of Art, Tokyo; Ibaraki Museum of Modern Art; Tokyo National Museum of Art; and the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, as well as in numerous private collections.
Selected Public Collections:
- Faenza International Museum of Ceramics, Italy,
- Minneapolis Institute of Art;
- Musée National de Céramique, Sèvres, France;
- Musée National de la porcelaine Adrien-Dubouché, Limoges, France;
- Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina;
- New Orleans Museum of Art;
- Newark Museum, New Jersey;
- Philadelphia Museum of Art;
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London United Kingdom
- Musée Tomo, Tokyo;
- Kure Municipal Museum of Art, Kure City, Hiroshima;
- Ogawa Museum of Art, Tokyo;
- Ibaraki Museum of Modern Art;
- Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art;
- Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts.
Biography:
1944 Born in Hyogo Prefecture
1967 Graduated from Kyoto City College of Arts, Department of Crafts
- Moved to Aki City, Kochi Prefecture
1976 Moved to Kasama City, Obaraki Prefecture
1977 Japan Ceramic Arts Exhibition
1979 Japan Ceramic Arts Exhibition
- Faenza International Ceramic Arts Exhibition
1980 Awarded the Gold Prize, Faenza International Ceramic Arts Exhibition
- Excellent Price, North Kanto Region Arts Exhibition
Japan Traditional Arts & Crafts Exhibition
1981 Japan Ceramic Arts Exhibition
- Japan Traditional Arts & Crafts Exhibition
- Faenza International Ceramic Arts & Exhibition
1982 Japan Traditional Arts & Crafts Exhibition
- Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Arts, Festival of Asian Arts, Hong Kong
1983 Became an official member of the Association of Japanese Traditional Arts & Crafts
- Japan Ceramic Arts Exhibition
- Japan Traditional Arts & Crafts Exhibition
- “Contemporary Japanese Arts & Crafts Itinerant Exhibition”, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Victoria & Albert Museum, England, and other location in Canada
1984 Japan Traditional Arts & Crafs Exhibition
- “Traditional Japanese Designs” Exhibition, Moscow
- “Ceramic Today” Exhibition
- 1985 Japan Ceramic Arts Exhibition
- Exhibition of Japan Traditional Arts & Crafts Exhibition
- Contemporary Ceramic Arts Exhibition, Kure Museum of Art
- “Clay, Image and Form” Exhibition
- Solo exhibition, Seibu Takanawakai
1986 Japan Traditional Arts & Crafts
- “Tomimoto Kenkichi & his Followers”, Tsurui Collection
- Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Arts Exhibition, New York, Poland, Greece, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, sponsored by Japan Foundation
- Ceramic Artists after Tomimoto Kenkichi, Seibu Department Store, Ikebukuro
- Asahi Contemporary Crafts Exhibition
1987 Ceramics Prize, Japan Ceramic Arts Exhibition
- Japan Traditional Arts & Crafts Exhibition
- Contemporary Japanese Artists Exhibition
- “Crafts: Standardbearers of the End of the Century” Exhibition, Suntory Museum, Tokyo
1987 Solo Exhibition, the 80th anniversary of the Takashima-ya Department Store, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama blanches
1988 Prize, the Association of Japan Ceramic Arts
- Japan Traditional Arts & Crafts Exhibition
- Contemporary Japanese Artists Exhibition
- “Nihon no Takumi (Japanese Artisans)” Exhibition, Takashima-ya Department Store
- “Mime Pool Exhibition”, Ohara Center of Tokyo
- 1989 Japan Traditional Arts & Crafts Exhibition
- Japan Ceramic Arts Exhibition
- Japanese Contemporary Arts Exhibition
- Europaria-Japan Exhibition, Brussels
1990 Europaria-Japan Homecoming Ceramic Arts Exhibition, Aichi prefectural Ceramic Museum
- “Primitivism in the Contemporary Ceramics”, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park
- Contemporary Pottery and New Form Art Exhibition, kasama Nichido Museum of Art
- Solo Exhibition, Miliken Gallery, New York
- Solo Exhibition, Fujii Gallery, Tokyo
1991 Japan Ceramic Arts Exhibition
- Solo Exhibition, “Ceramic, the defiant Space”, Yuraku-cho Art Forum, Tokyo
1993 Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections, Japan Society, New York
- 2005 Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (October 2005 – July 2006) and Japan Society
- New York, (September 2006 – January 2007)
2006 Solo Exhibition, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
2008 Passed away