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Miya Ando’s art practice operates at the intersection of material abstraction, natural phenomena, and the aesthetics of impermanence. Perception, duration, and atmospheric conditions are enacted through metal, pigment, washi, and light—materials selected for their responsiveness to subtle environmental change. Through painting, drawing, and installation, she constructs visual and temporal conditions that recalibrate attention. Language functions structurally in the work, with titles drawn from untranslatable Japanese idioms that preserve non-Western epistemologies and serve as conceptual anchors.
Ando’s work is held in the permanent collections of major institutions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and Daitoku-ji Temple in Kyoto and the Jean Paul Najar Foundation (Dubai). She has held solo exhibitions at the Noguchi Museum, Asia Society Texas, SCAD Museum of Art, the Nassau County Museum of Art, and the American University Museum, and participated in group exhibitions at LACMA, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Haus der Kunst (Munich), Crystal Bridges, and the 56th Venice Biennale. In 2011, Ando created a monumental September 11 memorial sculpture for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, commissioned from World Trade Center steel. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and has completed collaborations with Bang & Olufsen and Saint Laurent. In 2025, Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words was published by The MIT Press.