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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. 

Whitehot Magazine
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Whitehot Magazine
Meeting Miya Ando: “My art is a response to the zeitgeist.” January 31, 2023

By juxtaposing the polarities from our material and immaterial worlds, Miya Ando’s works epitomize a collective and universal purpose where ‘art is a silent and elegant dialogue’.

Architectural Digest India
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Architectural Digest India
At Singapore Art Week, an all-women show confronts exclusion January 15, 2022

Sundaram Tagore Gallery’s show, A Room Of Her Own, features Anila Quayyum Agha, Tayeba Lipi, Lalla Essaydi, Karen Knorr, Miya Ando, Neha Vedpathak, Jane Lee and Susan Weil.

Kyoto Journal
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Kyoto Journal
Between Form and Emptiness October 14, 2020

A conversation with artist Miya Ando.

Forbes
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Forbes
‘Infinite Seed’ Brings Collective Healing To East Hampton Through Art June 30, 2020

Ando looked to her Japanese heritage and the architecture of the Japanese Chashitsu (Tea Room), which dates back over 1,000 years to create a Moon Meditation Hut of linen sheets dyed blue with Indigo ink with a bright white full moon beaming at the center.  

Asian Art News
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Asian Art News
Miya Ando May 8, 2019

Speaking to Nature's seasons.

The Washington Post
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The Washington Post
Asia Shapes Two Art Shows at the AU Museum April 26, 2018

East and West converge in different ways in the work of Miya Ando and Jiha Moon, two Asia-rooted female artists who have shows in adjacent galleries at the American University Museum. 

Elle Decoration
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Elle Decoration
Lumière sur la Ville October 2017

Miya Ando’s work is showcased in a chic Paris apartment designed by Laura Gonzalez.

Artsy
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Artsy
From Kusama to Turrell, 9 Artists Who Made Perfect Spaces for Meditation July 2017

Miya Ando describes her works as “studies in nothingness.” Raised partly in a secluded Buddhist temple in Okayama, Japan, she says her spiritual practice informs her exploration of simplicity and reduction.

The Gulf Today
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The Gulf Today
Drawing People Together March 2017

Writer Muhammad Yusuf reports on Sundaram Tagore Gallery from Art Dubai

Ocula
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Ocula
Miya Ando at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York July 12, 2016

There is something quite surprising about Miya Ando, the latest artist to have a solo show with Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York.

Artforum
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Artforum
Reviw: Miya Ando, Sora/Ku October 26, 2015

By brushing layers of urethane and pigment onto sheets of aluminum, Miya Ando created ninety new abstract works for an exhibition at both of Sundaram Tagore Gallery's locations, in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Artnet
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Artnet
Artist Miya Ando on Growing Up and Working Hard September 2015

The work of New York-based artist Miya Ando has been guided by strong family relationships, a deep connection to nature, and time spent living in a Buddhist temple.

Straatosphere Magazine
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Straatosphere Magazine
Miya Ando: Woman of Steel July 2014

Not quite Superwoman, but every bit a woman of steel, artist Miya Ando is best known for her metalwork in the form of anodized aluminium that is hand-dyed to achieve beautiful end results; work that is industrial and ephemeral at the same time.

David Lynch Foundation
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David Lynch Foundation
July 2014

The David Lynch Foundation, which supports programs that promote transcendental meditation, talks with artist Miya Ando in her New York studio.

Asian Art News
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Asian Art News
Miya Ando at Sundaram Tagore Gallery March/April 2014

It really is a wonderful feeling to step into a gallery exhibition and be immediately set at ease by the imagery and colours of the paintings on the walls. So it was with Miya Ando's work in her most recent exhibition entitled Light Metal.

The Standard
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The Standard
Steeling the show March 2014

The half-Russian, half-Japanese artist, Miya Ando, first discovered her affinity for metal in a university welding class. She attributes it to the fact that her Japanese ancestors were Bizen swordmakers over a century ago.

Art Radar Asia
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Art Radar Asia
Woman of Steel: Miya Ando’s solo debut in Hong Kong March 2014

Brooklyn-based artist Miya Ando shares the unusual combination of traditional Japanese techniques and individual innovations that went into creating her recent body of work, displayed in her first solo exhibition “Light Metal” in Hong Kong.

South China Morning Post / 48 Hours
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South China Morning Post / 48 Hours
When many layers make light work February 2014

In her solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Ando has a selection of her abstract paintings on burnished steel and anodised aluminium.

Wired
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Wired
Softer Metal February 2014

Half-Japanese, half-Russian/American metalsmith Miya Ando makes art through alchemy. A recent set of her wall paintings, which emit a “ghostly halo” through phosphorescent pigments painted under the dyes, will be shown at the Sundaram Tagore gallery in Hong Kong throughout February.

ARTnews
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ARTnews
To Be A Lady: review February 2014

Brooklyn-based curator Jason Andrew's global selection of paintings, photographs, films, and painted constructions set out to recast the often limiting idea of what a "lady" should be.

Hong Kong Tatler
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Hong Kong Tatler
Miya Ando at Sundaram Tagore Gallery January 2014

The up-and-coming New York-based artist exhibits new works in her first Hong Kong solo exhibition.

Tricyle Magazine
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Tricyle Magazine
The Alchemist August 2013

Tricycle Magazine profiles artist Miya Ando, who talks about her practice, her creative vision, and how her heritage informs into her work.

 

The Jewish Daily Forward
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The Jewish Daily Forward
Searching For Impermanence July 2013

Miya Ando, an artist whose solo show Impermanence recently opened at New York’s Sundaram Tagore Gallery, is a product of two worlds. The daughter of a Russian (via California) Jewish father and Japanese Buddhist mother, she grew up in a temple and didn’t learn English until she was seven years old.

Blouin Artinfo
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Blouin Artinfo
Miya Ando's Burnished Metals At Sundaram Tagore New York July 2013

New York-based artist Miya Ando is currently having her first solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York, showcasing her signature burnished steel and anodized aluminum works that deftly tie together abstraction, industrial fabrication, spiritual subject matter, and the lessons of American minimalism.

Newsweek
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Newsweek
Mighty MIYA June 2013

Move over, Man of Steel. There’s a new superhero in the city. Her ancestors were swordsmiths. Her mission? To embrace the alchemy of metal. To manipulate steel and aluminum into forms beyond recognition. To create deceptively simple postminimalist art.

Surface Asia
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Surface Asia
Brevity and Light March 2013

Opening on International Women’s Day, the 8 Women/8 Stories exhibit at Hong Kong’s Sundaram Tagore Gallery was conceived as an accolade to the eight female artists who contribute to the show’s interwoven narrative.

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