MASAHIRO WADA
b. 1977, JapanMasahiro Wada was born in Tokyo in 1977. Having received his Bachelor of Arts from Goldsmiths’College, he co-founded HOMEBASE, an alternative art space utilising an old US off-base militaryhouse in Akishima, Tokyo in 2001. In 2012, he co-founded the National Museum of Art, Okutama inOme, Tokyo. He creates site-specific sculptures, installations, and videos in response to his livingenvironment and people around him, as well as people, climates, and landscapes related to theexhibition site. He is currently working on his first feature film, Songs For My Son, to be completedin 2024.
Selected exhibitions: A Solitary Emotion, Koganecho Bazaar 2024, Yokohama(2024); A SolitaryEmotion, Koganecho Bazaar 2024, Yokohama(2024); Masahiro Wada Film Works, LOKO GALLERY,Tokyo(2024); Handmade Gyoza Ho..., Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo(2021); UENOYES, NationalMuseum of Nature and Science,Tokyo(2019); OKU NOTO TORIENNALE 2017, Ongoing CollectiveAtsushi Yamamoto, OKU-NOTO Oral Tradition Museum, Ishikawa(2017); The National Cinema, Okutama, TheNational Museum of Art, Okutama, Tokyo(2016); Yokohama Triennale 2014, Yokohama Museum ofArt, Yokohama(2014)
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