Miya Ando
Profile/CV
www.miyaando.com
Miya Ando
Curriculum Vitae
Public Commissions
2010/11 Ten Year Anniversary 9/11 Anniversary Sculpture to be created with WTC Steel / London UK
2010 “Quietness”, Non Denominational Chapel, San Francisco General Hospital/ / San Francisco
2010 “Obon [meditation 1-8]” Thanatopolis Outdoor Memorial Sculpture / Norwalk, CT
2010 “Sakura Reichstag”, temporary outdoor installation, invisible luminous paint on snow / Berlin, Germany
2010 “Beautiful Night”, Invisible luminous wall mural, Safdi Plaza Realty / Brooklyn, NY
2010 “Shelter [Meditation 1-12]“, 40’ installed, The Healing Place Non Denominational Chapel / Louisville, KY
2009 “8-Fold Path” Against The Stream Buddhist Meditation Society / Los Angeles, CA
2009, “Let There Be Light”, Non Denominational Chapel,St. John's Bread & Life / New York, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
“Miya Ando Solo Exhibition” Galerie Sho / Tokyo Japan
“Shinobu” de Castallane Gallery / Brooklyn NY
“Meditations”, Art Ecology Gallery / Louisville KY
“Small Meditative Works”, Lora Schlesinger Gallery / Santa Monica CA
2009
“"Luminous Transcendent", Bryant Street Gallery / Palo Alto CA
"Meditative Fields", Michael Ingbar Gallery / New York NY
"Next Post: 18 Solo Projects", Rupert Ravens Contemporary / Newark NJ
2008
"Vanishing Point of Departures", Anne Reed Gallery / Sun Valley ID
"Revelation and Reflection", Bandini Art Gallery / Culver City CA
"Introspective Environments", Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art / Staten Island
2007
"Miya Ando Stanoff", Edith Caldwell Gallery / Sausalito CA
"Miya Ando Stanoff", Galerie Sho / Tokyo Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
“Sweetcake Enso” Travelling Zendo Exhibition, Empty Hand Zendo New Rochelle / NY Village Zendo / NY, Brooklyn Zen Center / New York
“The Happy Tree” Monster Children & Element / Sydney Australia
“Diversity in Dialogue” Muriel Guepin Gallery / Brooklyn NY
“The Art of Light”, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery / Berlin Germany
“Post No Bills: Art is Not A Crime”, Art Ecology Gallery / Louisville KY
2009
"Hypothetical Landscapes", Janet Kurnatowski / Brooklyn NY
"nAscent Art", Cipriani Club / New York NY
"ScopeNY", Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery / New York NY
"W Hotel", White Gallery / Times Square NY
2008
"Out of the Blue", Attleboro Arts Museum / Attleboro MA
"Places and Manners of Worship", Museum of Byzantine Culture / Greece
"Theme of Compassion", ArtXchange Gallery / Seattle, WA*
(*exhibit collaboration w/gathering feat. His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet)
"Lack of Desire", Brooklyn Arts Council / Brooklyn NY
2007
"Duopolis", Chandra Cerrito Contemporary / Oakland CA
"Distilled Moments", 111 Minna Gallery / San Francisco CA
"New Wave Contemporary", Galerie Sho / Tokyo Japan
"Homo Bellicus, A Geneology of War" / Berlin Germany
"Director's Selection", Edith Caldwell Gallery / Sausalito CA
2006
"Coast East", Art Gotham / New York NY
"The 69th Regiment Armory", Art (212) / New York NY
"Miya Ando & Jeremy Morgan", Concourse Gallery: Blue Tangerine / San Francisco CA
"New Visions: Introductions 2006", Pro Arts Gallery / Oakland CA
"2-d-2", Energy Gallery / Toronto, Canada
"Engineered Constructs" SJ Works / San Jose CA
2005
"Visions RED", Art Gotham / New York NY
"Abstraction", Gallery 402 / New York NY
"Transitory Environments", Roshambo / Healdsburg CA
"A Common Thread", Soho Myriad / Atlanta GA
"A World of Influence Redux", Urbis Artium Gallery / San Francisco CA
2 Person Show, Auto3321 Gallery / Oakland CA
"Re-Emergence" Red Ink / San Francisco CA
Bibliography (2008 - pr)
"Miya Ando’s refined, subtle works of rolled steel, made of sheets of burnished and chemically treated metal, are also a must-see for anyone interested in post-minimalist contemporary art."
- The New York Times / Mar '09
2010
"Ten Years On, New York Donates 9/11 Girders to Make London Sculpture" London Evening Standard, December
"9/11 Sculpture for London's South Bank" Artylyst, December
"Sculpture made from 9/11 ruins to be installed in London park", Fox News / December
"9/11 Memorial for Potter's Field Park?", Londonist / December
"London to Unveil 9/11 Memorial" Daily Mail UK / December
"9/11 Memorial for Potter's Field Park" Ethiopian News / December
“Shinobu Skate Art Opening in Brooklyn, NY” ESPN / October
“Miya Ando Shinobu [Perseverance] Solo Exhibition” Who What Wear Daily / October
“Shinobu Opens at de Castellane Gallery” Talk Art World / October
“Miya Ando’s Art Show/Ramp Etched with Acid Creates and Is Art” About.com / October
“Works at the Empty Hand Zen Center Exhibition” Sweetcake Enso / October
“Выставка под загадочным названием ‘Shinobu’“ Skvot.com (Russia) / October
“Miya Ando’s Okyoo (Prayer 108) Scroll” Thus I have seen Blog / October
“Swords and Steel and Subtle Traces of Nothingness” The Awakened Eye / October
“Wool, Clay, Felt and Steel: Artists and the Crafts they Love” Oh Comely Magazine(UK) November/December
“Juice Magazine Daily Dose of Art: Miya Ando October 11, 2010” Juice Mag / October
“Shinobu [Perseverance] by Miya Ando at de Castellane Gallery Brooklyn, NY” Hypebeast / October
“Recap: Shinobu with Element Eden Advocate Miya Ando” Foam Magazine / October
“Miya Ando Steel Painting” Crashingly Beautiful / October
“Continued Steady Belief—Miya Ando” Push.ca / October
“Perseverance is a Virtue: Miya Ando Solo Exhibition” Brooklyn: The Borough / October
“Miya Ando Artwork” Beautiful/Decay / October
“Meditations in Steel” Ragazine Online Art Magazine / September/October
“Fall Issue Extra: Miya Ando” Audrey Magazine / September
“Night Light: Miya Ando Artwork” Audrey Magazine / September
“Diatom, Miya Ando” Greg Brewer, Diatom Wines / Fall
“Mrs. Smith | So vergänglich wie Stahl” StyleMag / August
“Miya Ando Veins of Luminous Steel” Lodown Magazine / Summer
“Mrs Smith” Miya Ando Profile and Interview, Style and the Family Tunes / June
“Miya Ando Girls in Da Hood” Slider Magazine (Japan) / May
“Art of Light Ausstellung in Berlin”, Fauxami (German) / March
“Miya Ando, I’m Beautiful Night”, Blonde Magazine (German) / March
“Over My Pride: Miya Ando” Vodka Tearz / March
“Miya Ando Steel Skateboard” Chile Magazine / March
“Hikari Cube” Sk8boarder Magazine / March
“Miya Ando Acel Element Boardja” Offline Magazine, (Hungary) / March
“Miya Ando Skateboard Steel” Skateboard Magazine / March
“Die Stahlschmiedekunstlerin Miya Ando”, Epoch Times Interview / March
“Miya Ando Sakura Reichstag” World News / March
“Meditative Space for The Healing Place Miya Ando in Louisville”, Leo Weekly / March
“Miya Ando Art of Light” India Times / February
“Miya Ando @ Berlin” Clark Magazine (France) / February
“Element Advocate Miya Ando Art of Light Ausstellung”, We Are (German) / February
“Miya Ando Ausstellung Morgen!” Vice Magazine (Germany) / February
“Resplendency Art Exhibit” Lodown Magazine / February
“Element Eden Advocate Miya Ando” Disoriented Magazine (Italy) / February
“Hikari Cube//Miya Ando” Spoon and Tamago (Japan) / February
“Miya Ando Art of Light Exhibition” Huck Magazine / February
“Hikari Cube by Miya Ando” MoCo Loco Fresh / February
“Miya Ando” Quinquabelle ou Les Imperfections Parfaites (France) / January
“Second coming of Ando Steelworkers” Art Daily / January
“Artxchange” International Examiner / January
“New Fades and Small Meditative Fields” Santa Monica Mirror / January
“Miya Ando” Heyoka Magazine Interview /January 16
“Miya Ando” Conteart Fine Art News / January
“Miya Ando’s Work is sublime”, Art As Authority, Doug Simay / February
“Meditative Fields” Miya Ando at Lora Schlesinger / LA Times
“Post Minimalist Miya Ando”, Buddhist Art News / January
“Miya Ando ‘Art of Light’”, We Are (German) / January
“Miya Ando” Imperfections are Beautiful (French) / January
“New Fades” Lora Schlesinger Exhibition, LA Weekly / January
2009
“Elemental Advocate…” interview by Anna Langer, Cooler Magazine / Nov
“Miya Ando on Steel” Lowdown Magazine / December
“Metal Artist to Create for Center”, Core Form-ula / Nov
“Miya Ando x Indigo Youth Movement” by Shelley Lee Jones, Huck Magazine / Oct
“Miya Ando” by Diane Chang, astory Magazine / Nov
“St John‘s First…” by Stephen del Percio, gbNYC / Oct
“Art for Food Pantry” by --- , Daily News / Sept
Brooklyn People by Caitlin McNamara, Brooklyn Eagle / Oct
“Artist’s Work Feeds Hungry…” by National Coalition Against Hunger / Oct
“Miya Ando” profile in Art In Brooklyn / Sept
“Kickstarter Creative…”, by An Xiao, art 21 / Sept
RI Selects, Rural Intelligence / July
“New Techniques / New Ideas” by Leon Graham, Lakeview Journal / June
“Hypthetical Landscapes” by Justin Terry, artcritical / May
“Pic of the Day”, artcritical / May
“18 Solo Shows Under one Roof” by Tate Olsen, Flash Art International / May
“Newark Day Trip” by Grace Smith, Time Out NY / April
“Works from New Talent…” by Benjamin Gnocchi, New York Times / March
“Museums On Us” by L. Craig Schoonmaker, Newark USA, March
“Element” featured artist in national Campaign for Element, Nylon Magazine / Jan ‘09
2008
“Surprising Idaho” by Richard Speer, art ltd. / Dec
“Miya Ando Standoff” by Anna Meliksetian, The Magazine LA / Jul
"Hot Summer Exhibits", Lux Magazine / May, Jun
"Review of Miya Ando Stanoff" by Michael Freesola, Staten Island Advance / Apr
"Miya Ando Stanoff", Studio Visit Magazine / Mar
“Miya Ando Stanoff”, Beautiful Bokeh / Feb
"Miya Ando Stanoff: Steel paintings …" Artist of the Day by D.Durhrkoop, Empty Easel / Jan
“Sculptor Tanaka in ‘Duopolis’” Hokubei Magazine / Jan
Residencies:
2009
Northern California’s Public Art Academy / San Jose CA
Selected Awards / Honors:
2010
Thanatopolis Special Artist Award and Public Outdoor Commission Winner
Puffin Foundation Grant Award Winner
2009
Fundraiser Co-Chair, The Indigo Youth Movement / New York, NY & Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Public Ambassador, Element Advocate, International print and media campaign
2007
Best Emerging Artist Award, Glaad Out Auction / New York NY
Jury Prize Honorable Mention, Nascent Art / New York, NY
Speaking
Artist Talk in Conjunction with Exhibition, Bryant Street Gallery / 2009
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Louisville / November 2009
Cipriani Club Artist Talk / New York NY / /2009
Television
“Artist Helps Forge Mission of Brooklyn Soup Kitchen” Stephanie Simon, New York One Arts Report, NY1 Television News / 2010
“Subtraction and Steel” Miya Ando Interview on The Morning, Noon and Night Show, Plum TV / 2008
Education
‘1o Certificate of Completion, Public Art Academy Northern California
‘99 Apprentice to Master Metal Smith, Hattori Studio / Okayama Japan
‘98 Yale University, East Asian Studies / New Haven CT
‘96 UC Berkeley, East Asian Studies BS Magna Cum Laude / Berkeley CA
Phi Beta Kappa, Dean’s List
Robert Louis Stevenson School, Pebble Beach CA, honors
Selected Collections
Collection of Daitoku-ji former Head Priest / Japan, Edward Bronfman Private Collection / New York, NY, Fogcreek Software / New York, NY, Michele Clement Studio / San Francisco, CA, Diablo Publications/Rivera / Sun Valley, CA, Fine Design Group / San Francisco, CA, The Emerald Fund / San Francisco, CA, Jonathan Rose Companies / New York, NY, Wachtel Private Collection / Berkeley, CA, Iron Stone Real Estate Group / Philadelphia, PA, Denka Seiken Corporation, Campbell / CA & Japan, MKD Architecture Firm / San Francisco, CA, Altair Advisors LLC / Chicago, IL, Arcanum Architects / San Francisco, CA, Steve Lopez Private Collection / San Francisco, CA
Galman Group Collection / Philadelphia, PA, Candace Barnes Private Collection / San Francisco, CA, Pierre Roset Private Collection, France, Ligne Roset Corporate Collection / Briord, France, Met-A Architecture Firm / San Francisco, CA, Dominic Pangborn Design Studio / Detroit, MI, Goldman Architects / San Francisco, CA
Paramount Pictures / Los Angeles, CA, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein / Tokyo, Japan
Brewer-Clifton Winery / Lompoc, CA, A Studio / San Francisco, CA, Commercial Property Associates / Louisville, KY, Peggy Cooper Cafritz
Private Collection / New York
Statement
In my work, I create quiet, abstract, meditative environments with metal. Ultimately I am interested in the study of subtraction to the point of purity, simplicity and refinement.
I am Japanese and Russian, a descendant of Bizen swordmaker Ando Yoshiro Masakatsu and was raised between two worlds: among sword smiths-turned Buddhist priests in a Buddhist temple in Okayama, Japan and Santa Cruz, California . My spiritual, familial, and academic experiences deeply inform every aspect of my work. I am influenced by nature, geometry and follow in the tradition of artists such as Hiroshi Sugimoto & Agnes Martin.
My studio practice is based on a commitment to working with metals, focusing to create works in steel. My reasons for working with steel are multifold: since the first time I started to work with the medium, I felt a deep appreciation for the dynamic properties of the material. It simultaneously conveys strength and permanence and yet in the same instant appears delicate, fragile, luminous, soft, ethereal. I view the steel as a platform and foundation, which supports the aesthetics of the abstract concepts I have been investigating. The medium becomes both a contradiction and juxtaposition for expressing notions of evanescence, including ideas such as the transitory and ephemeral nature of all things, quietude and the underlying impermanence of everything. I have created my own technique by layering metal finishing methods including working with fire, heat, acids, patinas, pigments and automotive lacquer to transform the surface of the metal I work with.
Recently my work has combined 2D and 3D pieces into installations of transformative minimal spaces and environments. These contemplative, luminous voids are at once empty and serene, while also alive, filled with potential and possibility. In these new installations, I invite the viewer into a meditative space, and it is my hope that these spaces inspire introspection, reflection and solace. I am currently working on the 10 year memorial sculpture for 9/11, created from WTC steel to be installed in London. I have completed large-scale public and private commissions for nondenominational meditative spaces, having completed site-specific works for nondenominational chapels in Brooklyn, San Francisco, Louisville, New York and a nonsectarian Buddhist meditation space in Los Angeles. My intention is to put forth quiet and transcendent environments which come from a place of sincerity and compassion.
Miya Ando, New York 2010
Website www.miyaando.com
