"Since March 16 when lockdown started in New York, I have been making drawings of directly above my home in Manhattan. I have employed natural indigo on handmade Japanese Kozo paper as an homage to my Japanese ancestry. My family’s hometown of Okayama, Japan has a long history of indigo dyeing. I wish to pay respect to the 6000 year tradition of dyeing with the indigo plant and in particular to the legacy women dyers
around the globe."

Miya Ando is an American artist whose painting and sculpture articulate themes of perception and examine one’s relationship to time. Ando is a descendant of Bizen sword makers and spent her childhood between a Buddhist temple in Japan as well as in rural Northern California. Her work pays homage to ancient techniques and ideas, fusing them with contemporary materials and forms. She often references historic literary texts and examines the idea that the fundamental nature of reality is that all constituent forms that make up the universe are temporary; a concept found in Buddhism as well as quantum physics.



Ando’s work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions internationally at leading institutions including The Asia Society Museum, Houston, TX; The Noguchi Museum, New York, NY; SCAD Museum (Savannah College of Art and Design), Savannah, GA; The Nassau
County Museum, New York, NY and The American University Museum, Washington DC. Her work has also been included in extensive group exhibitions at institutions including The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas; LACMA, Los Angeles, CA; The Haus Der
Kunst, Munich, Germany; Bronx Museum, New York, NY and Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY. Her work is included in the public collections of LACMA, The Nassau County Museum, New York, NY; The Corning Museum of Glass, NY and The Detroit Institute of Art Museum
(DIA), The Luft Museum, Germany as well as in numerous private collections. Ando has been the recipient of several grants and awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award and commission for The Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, CT. She
exhibited her work in Frontiers Reimagined during the 56th Venice Biennale.