Wada Morihiro followed in the footsteps of ceramic genius Kamoda Shoji (1933-1983) by opening his own studio in Kasama city after finishing graduate work at Kyoto Art University, where he...
Wada Morihiro followed in the footsteps of ceramic genius Kamoda Shoji (1933-1983) by opening his own studio in Kasama city after finishing graduate work at Kyoto Art University, where he had studied with renowned artist Tomimoto Kenkichi (1886-1963). Born in 1944, Wada began exhibiting at some of Japan’s best contemporary ceramics galleries as early as 1979, when we was honored with a solo exhibition at Minami Aoyama Green gallery.
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.