Wada Morihiro

Awards:

1980 Gold prize, the Faenza International Ceramics Exhibition, Faenza, Italy
Prize of Excellence, the North Kanto Ceramics Exhibition
1987 Main prize, Japan Ceramics Exhibition
1988 Japan Ceramic Society Award

Solo exhibitions:

1968 Kôchi Municipal Library, Kôchi
1978 Gallery Gen, Tokyo
Green Gallery, Minami Aoyama, Tokyo (also 1979, 1980, 1982)
1979 Imahashi Gallery, Osaka
1982 Gallery Tôsenbo, Kyoto
Takashimaya Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo (also in 1984, 1986)
1983 Green Gallery, Akasaka, Tokyo (also in 1983, 1985)
1984 Takashimaya Department Store Gallery, Nanba, Osaka
1985 Seibu Prince Hotel, Takanawa-dai, Tokyo
1986 SEKKA-ON, Fujii Gallery, Tokyo (also in 1990)
Kandori Gallery, Tokyo (also in 1987)
1987 Takashimaya Art Department 80th Anniversary Exhibition: Wada Morihiro, Takashimaya Galleries, Nihonbashi, Tokyo; Nanba, Osaka; Kyoto; Yokohama, Kanagawa
1990 Morihiro Wada SOBO IN SOHO, Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York
Fuji Gallery, Tokyo
1991 Wada Morihiro: Chôsen suru Kûkan (Challenging Space), Yûrakuchô Art Forum, Tokyo, organized by Nikkei Newspaper
1992 Kochûkyo, Tokyo, organized by Nikkei Culture
Takashimaya Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo; Nanba, Osaka; Yokohama, Kanagawa
1994 Takashimaya Galleries, Kyoto, Gifu, Yonago, Okayama
Hôko, Ogawa Museum, Tokyo
Tenmanya, Hiroshima
1995 Takashimaya Galleries, Nihonbashi, Tokyo; Takasaki, Gunma; Yokohama, Kanagawa; Nanba, Osaka
1997 Takashimaya Galleries, Nanba, Osaka; Okayama; Gifu
1998 Endless Story in Clay, Tsukuba Museum, Ibaraki, organized by Nikkei Newspaper
Takashimaya Galleries, Tokyo and Osaka
2003 Wada Saijiki (glossary of seasonal ceramics): The First Season, Kumoituki (a month with clouds), Mitsukoshi Department Store Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
2004 Wada Saijiki (glossary of seasonal ceramics): The Second Season, Hoshimituya (a night full with stars), Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
2006 Wada Saijiki(glossary of seasonal ceramics); The Third Seasaon, Hanamitori (Viewing of Flowers), Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
Wada Saijiki(glossary of seasonal ceramics); The Fourth Seasaon, Mikaerimi (Returning to the Ocean), Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
2007 Mikaerimi, Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
Yamagata Shigoto 1, Yamagata and Ônuma
2008 Yamagata Shigoto 2, Anagama, Yamagata and Ônuma
Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi Tokyo (final solo exhibition) (July)


Group exhibitions:

1975 Entry to the 3rd Japan Ceramic Exhibition, Daimaru Gallery, Tokyo
1977 The 4th Japan Ceramic Arts Exhibition, Daimaru Gallery, Tokyo (thereafter biannually)
7 Artists Exhibition, group exhibition with Kyoto City College of Arts, Gallery Gen, Tokyo
1978 The 18th Traditional Crafts New Works Exhibition, Mitsukoshi Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
1979 The 7th Chûnichi International Ceramic Exhibition, Oriental Nakamura, Nagoya (also in 1980, 1981)
The 29th Faenza International Ceramic Exhibition, Faenza, Italy (also in 1980, 1981, 1989)
1980 The 27th Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition, Tokyo (also in '81, '82, '84, '85, '86, '87, '88, '89)
1982 Invited to Contemporary Japanese Ceramics Exhibition, the 7th Asian Art Festival, Hong Kong
1983 Invited to Contemporary Japanese Ceramics Exhibition, Quebec Museum and others, travel exhibition to Canada, organized by Japan Foundation
Japanese Ceramics Today, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. and Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The 4th North Kanto Ceramics Exhibition, Tochigi Prefectural Museum
The 5th Table ware Exhibition, Tokyo Bijutu Club, Tokyo
1984 Japanese Design: Traditional and Contemporary, Soviet Artist Association Central Artist Hall
Japan Exhibition, Bloomingdales, New York
Ceramics Today, Seibu Museum, Tokyo
1986 The 1st Genbi-ten (Contemporary Art Exhibition) (thereafter annually)
Invited to the 4th Asahi Contemporary Crafts Exhibition
KASARAGI, Paris, France
Ceramic Boxes Exhibition, Seibu Gallery, Ikebukuro, Tokyo
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics Exhibition, travel exhibition to New York, Poland, Greece, Czechoslovakia, etc., organized by the Japan Foundation
Crafts: Leaders at the End of the Century, Suntry Museum, Tokyo
1987 Yagi Kazuo Award Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition '87, Isetan Museum, Tokyo (also in '88)
Japan Ceramic Society Exhibition, Mitsukoshi, Nihonbashi, Tokyo (also '88)
1988 Japanese Craftsmanship Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store Exhibition, Nihonbashi, Tokyo; Kyoto; Yokohama, Kanagawa; Nanba, Osaka
1989 Europaria '89 Ceramics of Showa Period Exhibition, Mons City Museum, Belgium
1990 Europaria '89 Ceramics of Showa Period: Tradition and Invention, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Aichi
The 1st Contemporary of Clay, Kasama Nichidô Museum, Kasama, Ibaraki
Discovery of Clay: Contemporary Ceramics and Primitive Vessels, Shigaraki Ceramic Park Museum, Shiga
1991 The 2nd Contemporary of Clay, Kasama Nichidô Museum, Kasama, Ibaraki
1992 La Ceramique au Japon, Un Art Majeur. 58 Createurs Contemporains, Mitsukoshi Etoile, Paris, France
1993 UTSUWA, Saitama Prefectural Art Museum, Saitama
1995 Wind from Faenza, Ceratopia Toki, Gifu
1996 Kôkan suru jiba: muttsu no ko (Magnetic Field where people exchange their ideas: Six Artists), Ibaraki Modern Art Museum, Mito
1999 Home Made: Shifting Paradigms, Singapore National Museum
Ceramics Hunt '99 Exhibition, Takashimaya Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, organized by NHK
2001 Japanese Ceramics: Exploring Techniques and Forms for the New Century, Ibaragi Ceramic Art Museum, Ibaragi
2003 Japan Contemporary Ceramics and Photography, Hamburg, Germany
Invited to participate at The Korea Ceramics Expo Now and Now, Seoul, South Korea
2005 Exhibited and published, J. Earle, Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2006 Japan Society New York: Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century.
2006-07 TÔJI: Avant-grade et tradition du Japon, Musée National de Ceramique, Sèvres, France


Selected Public Collections:

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

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


Selected References:

“Wada Morihiro,” “The Sun”, 1990, May, pp. 58-59.

Hayashiya Seizô, “Chûmoku no gendai tôgeika jûnin [Ten emerging talents in contemporary ceramics} Taiyô (Heibonsha, 1990): 58-59.

“Wada Morihiro,” Toh, vol. 19, 1992.

Exhibition Catalogue, La Ceramique au Japon, un Art Majeur. 58 Createurs Contemporains (NHK Promotions, 1992): fig. 58.

Wada Morihiro-ten, [retrospective exhibition] Takashimaya Galleries, Tokyo & Osaka 1998.

Leaders of Contemporary Japanese Ceramics: Exploring Techniques and Forms for the New Century (Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, 2001): 92-95

Symphony of Water, Charm of Vessels: Morihiro Wada, Art Top 2004 vol. 196

Joe Earle, Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2005, pp.34-37.

Christine Shimizu, Tôji: Avant-Garde et Tradition de la Cèramique Japonaise, Editions de la rèunion des musèes nationaux, Paris, 2006.

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