Born 1986, Sayre, Pennsylvania
Lives and works in Asheville, NC
Education: Alfred University School of Art & Design, BFA, 2010
Selected exhibitions: Tokyo International Art Fair, November 2025‘Soul of Appalachia’ Group show, TAG Gallery, High Point NC, 1/16/24 – 3/7/25
‘Summer Brew’ group show, Field Projects, NYC, 6/2024
Featured artist, Foundation Studios, Asheville NC, 6/2023
Superfine! NYCx3, NYC, September 2021
Little Jumbo sculpture installation, Asheville NC, 2020-25
Superfine! LA, Frieze week, February 2019
Superfine! NYC, Frieze week, May 2018
Superfine! NYC, Frieze week, May 2017
Temporal Pop-up gallery, curator, Ithaca NY, 2013
Temporal Pop-up gallery, solo exhibition, Ithaca NY, 2013
‘See America’, FDR Presidential Library & Museum, NY, 2013
Guy Lyman Fine Arts Gallery, New Orleans LA, 2012
Littlest Print collective (traveling), 2011
Glassfest, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY, 2011
Southern Graphics Council, Chicago IL, 2009
Museum of Luminous Phenomenon, Alfred NY, 2008
Collaborations:
Little Jumbo sculpture installations/resident artist, Asheville NC, 2021-Present
Cellarest Beer Project, Asheville NC, 2023-Present
Publications:
Chromatic Abberations, Vol. 2, 2024
Studio Visit Magazine, Summer 2019
Website: wadeasa.com
Instagram: @wadeasa
Wade Asa
Artist Statement: My work exists in the subterranean spaces between memory, dreams, and imagination. There is an architecture that connects these territories- a collective subconscious of creativity, which I explore by way of symbolism and personal mythology. My process embraces the unknown, allowing each work to evolve organically. By combining elements of the unconscious with tangible forms, my work invites viewers to connect with their own imaginations in a space where the dreamlike and symbolic meet, encouraging both personal and universal interpretations.
Wade Asa is a painter, sculptor and printmaker, creating art in the mountains just outside of Asheville, North Carolina. He received his BFA from Alfred University School of Art & Design in 2010. For the past decade, he has shown his work nationally in New York and Los Angeles, and regionally in Western North Carolina.
