LOS ANGELES, CA.- Wilding Cran Gallery has announced their representation of Miya Ando. In an effort to bring attention to the physical manifestation of time, transition, and the cycles of life, Miya Ando grounds her sculptures, paintings, and installations in the phenomena of the natural world, locating harmony in the gaps between the material and ephemeral, the manmade and organic, the cultures of East and West.

Inspired by her deep fascination with arcane Japanese literature, idiom, and philosophy, Miya Ando views her artistic practice as a language that unites spheres of influence, a bridge between her experience growing up in both Northern California and Japan.

"There is a poetry to our communion with nature. Whether a leaf, a cloud, a shooting star, we all have a part in this fleeting existence. Through my work, I look for ways to capture and translate these shared states of being." - Miya Ando

Through her reverence for nature’s systems of interdependence and impermanence, Ando poetically blends industrialized materials into her subjects, granting tactility to the changing seasons, phases of the moon, shifting clouds, and weather patterns. Harnessing the Japanese notion of mono no aware — an innate sensitivity to the fleeting nature of our world — Ando maps the ways in which we can relate to each other, across the boundaries of language and geography.

Miya Ando is a Japanese and American artist based in New York. Her art is rooted in the dialectic coexistence of Eastern and Western cultures through the lens of natural phenomena.

Her work is part of many public collections such as: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Luftmuseum, Amberg, Germany; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; The Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, as well as in numerous private collections. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at the Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA; the Asia Society Museum, Houston, TX; the Noguchi Museum, New York, NY; Savannah College Of Art and Design Museum, Savannah, GA; the Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, NY; and The American University Museum, Washington DC. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, LA; Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. and Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY. Ando has been the recipient of several grants and awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award, and has produced several public commissions, most notably a thirty-foot-tall sculpture built from World Trade Center steel for Olympic Park in London to mark the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, for which she was nominated for a DARC Award in Best Light Art Installation. Ando was also commissioned to create artwork for the historic Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, CT. Most recently, Ando received the 2023 Brookfield Place New York Annual Arts Commission. The artist holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, studied East Asian Studies at Yale University, and apprenticed with a Master Metalsmith in Japan.