Miya Ando
Selected Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Apprentice to Master Metalsmith, Okayama, Japan

  • Graduate Coursework, East Asian Studies, Stanford University, CA

  • Graduate Coursework, East Asian Studies, Yale University, CT

  • B.S. East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, magna cum laude

Selected Honors & Distinctions

  • Brookfield Place New York Annual Arts Commission Winner, 2023

  • Collaboration with Saint Laurent Rive Droite / Anthony Vaccarello, 2025

  • Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2000 Japanese Rain Words, The MIT Press, 2024

  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2012

  • Shortlist, Best Light Art, d[arc] Award, UK, 2015

  • Shortlist, Marsh Award for Best Public Sculpture, 9/11 Memorial, London, UK, 2015

  • Artprize Special Artist Commission, Grand Rapids Public Museum, 2018

  • Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship, 2013

  • Emerging Artist Prize, Detroit Institute of Arts, 2017

  • Invitation to meet Vice President Biden & Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, U.S. Department of State, 2015

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • Mono no aware, curated by Anthony Vaccarello, Saint Laurent Rive Droite, Los Angeles, 2025

  • Blue Sky Codex, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, 2024

  • Sky Atlas, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, 2023

  • Waiting For The Moon, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA, 2023

  • Kumoji (Cloud Path), Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, 2022

  • Mugetsu (Invisible Moon), MAKI Gallery, Tokyo, 2021

  • Kuu 空, MAKI Gallery, Tokyo, 2020

  • Calendar of Moons (Tsuki Koyomi), Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, 2020

  • Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, 2019

  • Clouds, The Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY, 2018

  • KUMO, Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum, Washington DC, 2018

  • Temporal, Savannah College of Art & Design Museum of Art, Savannah, 2017

  • Sui Getsu (Water, Moon), Hiroshima SOGO Artspace, Hiroshima, Japan, 2017

  • 銀河 Ginga (The Silver River/Milky Way Galaxy), Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, 2016

  • The Nature of Perception, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, 2016

  • Sky/Emptiness (Sora/Ku), Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong & Singapore, 2015

  • Venice Biennale, Museo Di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy, 2015

  • Aurora, Mead Carney Fine Art, London, UK, 2014

  • Mujo (Impermanence), Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, 2013

  • Elements, Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2011

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • Art and Technology, curated by Paul Schimmel, El Segundo, CA, 2025

  • Kimono: Garment, Canvas, and Artistic Muse, International Art & Artists Touring Exhibition, 2025–26

  • Eastern Exposure: Meaning & Materiality in Contemporary Asian Art, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, London, UK, 2024

  • Otherworldly Landscapes, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, 2024

  • Earth and Sky, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, 2023

  • Sense of Materiality, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, London, 2023

  • Art Within Reach I, APSMUSEUM, Shanghai, 2023

  • Ceremony, Maebashi Galleria, Gunma, Japan, 2023

  • Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, 2019

  • Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY, 2019

  • The Big Sleep, 4th Artists’ Biennial, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2019

  • Energy: The Power of Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, 2019

  • New Glass Now, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, 2019

  • Frontiers Reimagined, 56th Venice Biennale, Museo Di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, 2015

  • Atmosphere in Japanese Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 2017

  • Bronx Calling: The Second Bronx Biennial, Bronx Museum, Bronx, 2013

  • Stillness and Movement: Art from Japan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 2017

  • Wa: The Art of Japan, Gensler Art Gallery, San Francisco, 2011

  • Timekeeper, IMAL Center for Digital Cultures, Brussels, 2012

  • Archives of the Ephemeral, Fist Art Foundation, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2012

Selected Public Art & Commissions

  • Moon Ensō (Engessō 円月相), Art SG, Singapore, 2025

  • Flower Atlas Calendar, Brookfield Place, New York, 2023

  • Isuzugawa (Tenkou), Isuzu Motors Ltd, Tokyo, 2022

  • Redwood (Spirit), Savannah College of Art & Design Museum of Art, 2017

  • 銀河 Ginga (The Silver River in the Sky), Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, 2019

  • Aurorae, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, 2019

  • Foggy Forest, Waterline Square, New York, 2019

  • 9/11 Memorial Sculpture, Zaha Hadid Aquatic Centre, London, 2015

  • Emptiness the Sky (Shou Sugi Ban), 56th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Grimani, Venice, 2015

  • Meditation Room, Nippon Club Tohoku Earthquake Memorial, New York, 2016

  • Kumo (Cloud), The Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, CT, 2016

  • Falcons Grid, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA, 2017

  • Ryoanji & Mizukagami, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, 2019

  • Sora (Kū) Versailles, FAENA Art Festival, Miami, 2018

  • Wishing Mandala, The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, 2017

  • Prayer Flag Mandala, Orgye Dorje Den Tibetan Monastery, San Leandro, 2017

  • November Evening Cloud 4.6, San Francisco Airport Collection, San Francisco, 2018

  • Quietness, San Francisco General Hospital Chapel, 2010

Selected Public Collections

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles

  • Haus der Kunst Museum, Munich

  • Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville

  • Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit

  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara

  • Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale

  • The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning

  • SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah

  • The Noguchi Museum, Queens

  • Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor

  • Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey

  • Peggy Cooper Cafritz Collection, Washington DC

  • Faena Art Collection, Miami

  • Jean Paul Najar Foundation Museum Collection, Dubai

  • Lowe Art Museum, Miami

  • Mercedes-Benz Stadium Art Collection, Atlanta

  • Bolinas Museum of Art, CA

  • Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens

  • Montefiore Art Collection, Bronx

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