Miya Ando (安藤美夜)

Curated by Anthony Vaccarello, creative director of Yves Saint Laurent, this solo exhibition features a re-creation of the karesansui (dry Zen garden) of Ryōanji Temple in Kyoto. Ando’s version of this historically significant garden consists of 15 shou sugi ban (charred wood) cubes, coated with silver nitrate.

Also on view: a monumental cloud painting from her Kumo (Clouds) series and silkscreen prints executed with micronized pure silver on paper derived from photographs taken of our galaxy. The exhibition runs through May 13, 2025, at Saint Laurent Rive Droite Los Angeles in Beverly Hills. Photo by Lorraine Young.

Gallery artist Miya Ando and architect Dr. Yoko Kawai will share insights on how their work bridges the gap between the human and natural worlds. The event is organized by the Yale Council on East Asian Studies and the Japan Society of Greater Fairfield County.

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Pictured: Miya Ando, Unkai (A Sea of Clouds) April 18 2024 6:56 AM NYC, 2024, ink on aluminum composite, 25.5 x 37.5 inches

Miya Ando will discuss her Cloud series of artworks on view in the Buddhist Art galleries at Detroit Institute of Arts, from their genesis—arising from her earlier Hamon paintings (referring to a cloud-like pattern on the edge of a sword)—to the overarching concept of mono no aware. This lecture is free and will take place Thursday, March 7, 2024, at 6 pm.

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Earth and Sky highlights work from the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, including work by Miya Ando, that touches on how humans inhabit, construct, or perceive various natural, artificial, or ethereal environments. On view through January 7, 2024. 

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Gallery artist Miya Ando has been awarded the 2023 Brookfield Place New York Annual Arts Commission. The site-specific commission, titled Flower Atlas, premiered at the Winter Garden in Brookfield Place in lower Manhattan, in July 2023. Ando reimagined the year 2023 not in days but in flowers, depicting the seventy-two seasons of the nature-based ancient Japanese system of time-telling. The installation came to life through seventy-two chiffon banners suspended in the Winter Garden.

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The title of this solo exhibition at Northern California’s Bolinas Museum is inspired by a series of 1,347 daily drawings Ando created during the Covid lockdowns. The drawings were made with natural indigo dye and micronized pure silver on washi and Hahnemühle paper. Many pieces in the exhibition, including 30 moon drawings, link directly to Ando’s deep relationship with Bolinas and coastal Northern California environments. Exhibition on from February 4 – April 2, 2023. 

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A glass sculpture by Miya Ando is on view in the exhibition New Glass Now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from October 22, 2021 – March 6, 2022.

Miya Ando’s work is in the solo exhibition Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form November 16, 2019, to March 29, 2020.

On November 16, 2019, Ando will give an artist talk about the inspiration she draws from the Buddhist text, the Heart Sutra, and how it relates to her studio processes working with elemental materials such as wood, metal and light.

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Two site-specific plate-glass sculptures internally etched with images of clouds are on view in Miya Ando: Clouds in the museum’s indoor-outdoor gallery April 25 – August 19, 2018. Click here for info.

Work by Miya Ando is on view in the solo exhibition Temporal August 17, 2017 to February 4, 2018.

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Work by Miya Ando is on view in the solo exhibition Inspirations 2017 June 14 – September 16, 2017.