Miya Ando’s paintings, sculptures and installation artworks have been the subject of solo exhibitions at Asia Society Texas, Houston; The Noguchi Museum, New York; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia; Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York; and American University Museum, Washington, DC. In November of 2025, The MIT Press published the book Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Rain Words, which Ando wrote and illustrated.
Work by Ando (b. 1973, Los Angeles) has been showcased in group exhibitions at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Haus Der Kunst, Munich; and Bronx Museum and Queens Museum, New York.
Ando’s work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Nassau County Museum of Art; Corning Museum of Glass, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and The Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California; among other public institutions.
Ando has been the recipient of several grants and awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award, and has produced numerous public commissions, most notably a thirty-foot-tall sculpture built from World Trade Center steel installed in Olympic Park in London to mark the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, for which she was nominated for a DARC Award in Best Light Art Installation. Ando was also commissioned to create artwork for the historic Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut.
The artist holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley, persued East Asian studies at Yale University and Stanford University, and apprenticed with a master metalsmith in Japan.
Ando lives and works in New York.

















