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
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, MIT Press, 2024
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2012
Shortlist, Best Light Art, d[arc] Award, UK, 2015
Shortlist, Marsh Award for Best Public Sculpture, 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 , 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
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, 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, 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, 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 Ens (Engessō), 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
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, 2018
Quietness, San Francisco General Hospital Chapel, 2010
Selected Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles
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