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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, Georgie; Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York; and the American University Museum, Washington, DC. A large public installation titled Flower Atlas was recently on display in the Winter Garden in New York’s Brookfield Place.


Work by Ando (b. 1973, Los Angeles) has also been included in group exhibitions at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Haus Der Kunst, Munich; and the Bronx Museum and Queens Museum, New York. 

 

Ando’s work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Nassau County Museum of Art; the Corning Museum of Glass, New York; the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; The Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California; among other public institutions as well as in numerous private collections. 


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, CT.

 

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. 

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Work by Miya Ando on view at Saint Laurent Rive Droite Los Angeles
EXHIBITION
Work by Miya Ando on view at Saint Laurent Rive Droite Los Angeles

Curated by Anthony Vaccarello, creative director of Yves Saint Laurent, this solo exhibition features a re-creation of the karesansui (dry Zen garden) of Ryōanji Temple in Kyoto. Ando’s version of this historically significant garden consists of 15 shou sugi ban (charred wood) cubes, coated with silver nitrate.

 

Also on view: a monumental cloud painting from her Kumo (Clouds) series and silkscreen prints executed with micronized pure silver on paper derived from photographs taken of our galaxy. The exhibition runs through May 13, 2025, at Saint Laurent Rive Droite Los Angeles in Beverly Hills. Photo by Lorraine Young.

Miya Ando in Conversation at Yale University
Panel Discussion
Miya Ando in Conversation at Yale University
4:30 pm Friday, December 6, 2024

Gallery artist Miya Ando and architect Dr. Yoko Kawai will share insights on how their work bridges the gap between the human and natural worlds. The event is organized by the Yale Council on East Asian Studies and the Japan Society of Greater Fairfield County.

 

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Pictured: Miya Ando, Unkai (A Sea of Clouds) April 18 2024 6:56 AM NYC, 2024, ink on aluminum composite, 25.5 x 37.5 inches

Miya Ando Talks About her Work at Detroit Institute of Arts
Artist Talk
Miya Ando Talks About her Work at Detroit Institute of Arts

Miya Ando will discuss her Cloud series of artworks on view in the Buddhist Art galleries at Detroit Institute of Arts, from their genesis—arising from her earlier Hamon paintings (referring to a cloud-like pattern on the edge of a sword)—to the overarching concept of mono no aware. This lecture is free and will take place Thursday, March 7, 2024, at 6 pm.

 

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Work by Miya Ando on View in the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona
Museum Exhibition
Work by Miya Ando on View in the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona

Earth and Sky highlights work from the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, including work by Miya Ando, that touches on how humans inhabit, construct, or perceive various natural, artificial, or ethereal environments. On view through January 7, 2024. 

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Miya Ando: Flower Atlas at Brookfield Place, New York
Public Installation
Miya Ando: Flower Atlas at Brookfield Place, New York

Gallery artist Miya Ando has been awarded the 2023 Brookfield Place New York Annual Arts Commission. The site-specific commission, titled Flower Atlas, premiered at the Winter Garden in Brookfield Place in lower Manhattan, in July 2023. Ando reimagined the year 2023 not in days but in flowers, depicting the seventy-two seasons of the nature-based ancient Japanese system of time-telling. The installation came to life through seventy-two chiffon banners suspended in the Winter Garden.

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MIYA ANDO: WAITING FOR THE MOON AT THE BOLINAS MUSEUM, California
Museum Exhibition
MIYA ANDO: WAITING FOR THE MOON AT THE BOLINAS MUSEUM, California

The title of this solo exhibition at Northern California’s Bolinas Museum is inspired by a series of 1,347 daily drawings Ando created during the Covid lockdowns. The drawings were made with natural indigo dye and micronized pure silver on washi and Hahnemühle paper. Many pieces in the exhibition, including 30 moon drawings, link directly to Ando’s deep relationship with Bolinas and coastal Northern California environments. Exhibition on from February 4 – April 2, 2023. 

 

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MIYA ANDO AT THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM in Washington DC
Museum Exhibition
MIYA ANDO AT THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM in Washington DC

A glass sculpture by Miya Ando is on view in the exhibition New Glass Now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from October 22, 2021 – March 6, 2022.

MIYA ANDO AT ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS
Museum Exhibition and Artist Talk
MIYA ANDO AT ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS

Miya Ando’s work is in the solo exhibition Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form November 16, 2019, to March 29, 2020.

On November 16, 2019, Ando will give an artist talk about the inspiration she draws from the Buddhist text, the Heart Sutra, and how it relates to her studio processes working with elemental materials such as wood, metal and light.

 

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Bentonville, Arkansas
Museum Exhibition
Bentonville, Arkansas
MIYA ANDO AT THE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

Miya Ando's work will be on view in Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today, alongside work by Andy Warhol, Marina Abramovic, Ai Weiwei, Alexis Arnold, Olafur Eliasson, Cindy Sherman and more. On view Oct. 12 – Jan. 6, 2020.

Roslyn Harbor, New York
Museum Exhibition
Roslyn Harbor, New York
MIYA ANDO AT THE NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

Work by Miya Ando will be on view alongside paintings and installations from Kandinsky, Motherwell, Frankenthaler and Warhol in True Colors. The show celebrates color as a powerful form of expression and includes more than one hundred richly saturated works that span a century. On view July 21 – Nov. 4, 2018.

New York
Museum Exhibition
New York
MIYA ANDO AT THE NOGUCHI MUSEUM

Two site-specific plate-glass sculptures internally etched with images of clouds are on view in Miya Ando: Clouds in the museum’s indoor-outdoor gallery April 25 – August 19, 2018. Click here for info.

Washington, DC
Museum Exhibition
Washington, DC
MIYA ANDO AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

Work by gallery artist Miya Ando is on view in Kumo: Miya Ando. On view April 3 – May 27, 2018

 

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Work by Miya Ando and Hiroshi Senju at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum Exhibition
Work by Miya Ando and Hiroshi Senju at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Work by gallery artists Miya Ando and Hiroshi Senju is on view in Atmosphere in Japanese Painting, from September 15, 2017 – February 4, 2018.

 

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Georgia
Museum Exhibition
Georgia
MIYA ANDO AT THE SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN

Work by Miya Ando is on view in the solo exhibition Temporal August 17, 2017 to February 4, 2018.

 

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North Salem, New York
Museum Exhibition
North Salem, New York
MIYA ANDO AT THE HAMMOND MUSEUM

Work by Miya Ando is on view in the solo exhibition Inspirations 2017 June 14 – September 16, 2017.

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