MIYA ANDO

Miya Ando is a Japanese and American artist and author whose work gives form to ephemeral natural phenomena and explores time and impermanence. Solo exhibitions include the Noguchi Museum and Asia Society. She has exhibited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the 56th Venice Biennale. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and other public institutions. A recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, Ando is the author of Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2000 Japanese Rain Words, published by MIT Press.