Miya Ando

MIYA ANDO

Miya Ando’s studio, 2013, Brooklyn, New York

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Established in 2000, Sundaram Tagore Gallery is devoted to examining the exchange of ideas between Western and non-Western cultures. We focus on developing exhibitions and hosting not-for-profit events that encourage spiritual, social and aesthetic dialogues. In a world where communication is instant and cultures are colliding and melding as never before, our goal is to provide venues for art that transcend boundaries of all sorts. With alliances across the globe, our interest in cross-cultural exchange extends beyond the visual arts into many other disciplines, including poetry, literature, performance art, film and music.

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MIYA ANDO

debuts recent work in Mujo (Impermanence)

her first solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery

A descendant of Bizen sword makers, Ando was raised among sword smiths and Buddhist priests in a temple in Okayama, Japan. Combining traditional techniques of her ancestry with modern industrial technology, Ando skillfully transforms sheets of burnished steel and anodized aluminum into ephemeral abstractions suffused with subtle gradations of color.

For Ando, the paradoxical pairing of spiritual subject matter with metal is intentional. She says: “My work is an exploration into the duality of metal and its ability to convey strength and permanence, yet in the same instance absorb shifting color and capture the fleetingness of light. It reminds us of the transitory nature of all things in life.”

At the core of Ando’s practice is the transformation of surfaces. She produces light-reflecting gradients on her metal paintings by applying heat, sandpaper, grinders, acid and patinas, irrevocably altering the material’s chemical properties. It’s by an almost meditative daily repetition of these techniques that Ando is able to subtract, reduce and distill her concept until it reaches its simplest form.

Building on this premise of transformation, Ando recently began working with anodized aluminum as well as steel, producing a series of large-scale paintings infused with luminous color—a bespoke palette of muted reds, blues, greens, pinks, purples and

gold she conjured from a limited selection of industrial dyes. Ando applies the pigments to plates of anodized aluminum as if they were watercolors. Anodizing—an industrial process in which sapphire crystals are electroplated to the metal— allows the dyes to bond to the material, producing more vivid color. The resulting patterns subtly evoke ethereal, minimalist landscapes and abstracted metallic horizons. “I like the idea of using things that are seemingly permanent,” she says. “By applying different techniques, I transform the materials to evoke sky, or water or air—it’s like a transition from the industrial to the natural world.”

MiyaAndoreceivedabachelor’sdegreeinEastAsianstudies from the University of California, Berkeley, and attended Yale University to study Buddhist iconography and imagery. She apprenticed with a master metalsmith in Japan, followed by a residency at Northern California’s Public Art Academy in 2009. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2012. Her work has been exhibited extensively all over the world, including in a recent show curated by Nat Trotman of the Guggenheim Museum. Miya Ando has produced numerous public commissions, most notably a thirty-foot-tall commemorative sculpture in London built from World Trade Center steel to mark the ten-year anniversary of 9/11. She lives and works in New York.

Meditation Blue Black, 2013, hand-dyed anodized aluminum, 48 x 48 inches

Sui Getsu Ka Red, 2013, hand-dyed anodized aluminum, 24 x 48 inches

Hakanai Fleeting Blue, 2013, hand-dyed anodized aluminum, 48 x 48 inches

Setsunai Blue,

Setsunai Gold, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum,

x 36 inches

Meditation Gold, 2013, patina, pigment, dye, resin on aluminum, 48 x 48 inches

Sui Getsu Ka (Water Moon Flower), 2013, hand-dyed anodized aluminum, 16 pieces 12 x 12 inches each

Left: Yume Dream Midori, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches

Right: Yume Dream Light Gold, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches

Left: Yume Dream Sienna, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches

Right: Yume Dream Yellow, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches

Meditation Blue Steel, 2013, patina, pigment, automotive lacquer on steel, 46 x 47 inches

Hakanai Fleeting Orange, 2013, hand-dyed anodized aluminum, 48 x 48 inches

Sui Getsu Ka Blue Black, 2013, hand-dyed anodized aluminum, 24 x 48 inches

Left: Yume Dream Blue Grey, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches

Right: Yume Dream Faint Green, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches

Left: Yume Dream Purple, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches

Right: Yume Dream Grey, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches

Meditation Red, 2013, patina, pigment, resin on aluminum, 60 x 48 inches

Sui Getsu Ka Gold, 2013, hand-dyed anodized aluminum, 48 x 72 inches

Left: Yume Dream Deep Blue, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches

Left: Yume Dream Faint Blue, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches

Right: Yume Dream Green Blue, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches

Meditation Dark Blue, 2013, hand-dyed anodized aluminum, 48 x 48 inches

Hakanai Fleeting Sea Sky Blue, 2013, hand-dyed anodized aluminum, 48 x 48 inches

Left: Yume Dream Red, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches

Right: Yume Dream Faint Pink, 2013, dye, resin on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches

Akagane Copper 2, 2013, patina, pigment, copper on wood panel, 47.75 x 47.5 inches

Hamon Blue, 2013, patina, pigment, lacquer on aluminum, 48 x 96 inches

Getsu Ka Lavender, 2013, hand-dyed anodized aluminum,

x 48 inches

Sora Sky Kimono, 2013, hand-dyed anodized aluminum, 60 x 48 inches

CURRICULUM VITAE

Born in Los Angeles, California

Certificate of Completion, Public Art Academy, Northern California

Apprentice to Master Metal Smith, Okayama, Japan

Yale University, East Asian Studies, New Haven, Connecticut

BS in East Asian Studies from University of California at Berkeley, Magna Cum Laude

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 Mujo (Impermanence), Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York

2012 Meditations, Madison Galleries, La Jolla, California

2011 The Color of Light, Lora Schlesinger Gallery,

S anta Monica, California

Elements, Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo Reflections, Shibuya Seibu Artspace, Tokyo Chado: The Way of Tea, Artxchange Gallery, Seattle

2010 Shinobu, de Castallane Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Meditations, Art Ecology Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky

Small Meditative Works, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, S anta Monica, California

2009 Luminous Transcendent, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, California

Next Post: 18 Solo Projects, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, New Jersey

2008 Vanishing Point of Departures, Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho

Revelation and Reflection, Bandini Art Gallery, Culver City, California

Introspective Environments, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art Museum, St aten Island, New York

2007 Miya Ando, Edith Caldwell Gallery, Sausalito, California, and Galerie Sho, Tokyo

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum and Wave Hill, New York

Archives of the Ephemeral: Ten Interventions in Nature, Escuela de Bellas Artes de Ponce, Puerto Rico

8 Stories, 8 Women, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong

A Strong Hand That Nonetheless Gets You Nowhere, Kunsthalle Galapagos, New York

Limuw: An Ode to the Sea, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California

Thinking Like the Universe, K Imperial Gallery, San Francisco and Hatch Gallery, Oakland, California

2012 Timekeeper, The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, and iMAL, Brussels

Archives of the Ephemeral: Ten Artistic Interventions in Nature, Sagrado Corazon University, Puerto Rico

Installment 1, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York

Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, New York Armory Fair Art Meets New York, Shibuya Seibu Gallery and Galerie Sho, Tokyo Stories to Wake Up With, The Market Studios, Dublin, Ireland Language Is the House We Live In, Kunstfilmtag; Auditorium of the Artists Association Malk asten, Düsseldorf

2011 Perspectives, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York

Wa: The Art of Japan, Gensler Art Gallery, San Francisco

The Cutting Light, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris

Wide Open, curated by Nate Trotman, associate curator, Guggenheim, BWAC, Red Hook, New York

Misc, Art Finance Partners, New York

2010 Sweetcake Enso, travelling Zendo Exhibition, Empty Hand Zendo, New Rochelle, New York

The Happy Tree, Monster Children & Element, Sydney Diversity in Dialogue, Muriel Guepin Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

The Art of Light, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Berlin

2009 Hypothetical Landscapes, Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, New York W Hotel, White Gallery, New York

2008 Out of the Blue, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts Places and Manners of Worship, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece

Theme of Compassion (in collaboration with gathering feat, His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet), ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle Lack of Desire, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, New York

2007 Duopolis, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, California Distilled Moments, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco New Wave Contemporary, Galerie Sho, Tokyo A Geneology of War, Homo Bellicus, Berlin Director’s Selection, Edith Caldwell Gallery, Sausalito, California

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2012 Obon: Puerto Rico, Fist Art Foundation

2011 Obon: Temple, (outdoor public commission), Haein Art Project, one-hundred-eight luminous resin and phosphorescent cube sculptures for the millennial celebration of the Haeinsa Buddhist Temple, Korea

Reflectivity, September 11 memorial sculpture made from a twenty-four-inch piece of World Trade Center steel, for CalFire California Fire Department

After 9/11, September 11 memorial sculpture, created from thirty-foot pieces of World Trade Center steel, London

2010 Quietness, Non Denominational Chapel, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco

Obon [Meditation 1-8], Thanatopolis Outdoor Memorial Sculpture, Norwalk, Connecticut

Sakura Reichstag (temporary outdoor installation, invisible luminous paint on snow), Berlin

Beautiful Night (invisible luminous wall mural), Safdi Plaza

Realty, Brooklyn, New York Shelter [Meditation 1-12] , forty-foot installed, The Healing Place Non Denominational Chapel Woman’s Shelter, Louisville, Kentucky

2009 8-Fold Path, Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, Los Angeles Let There Be Light, St. John’s Bread & Life Non Denominational Chapel, New York

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (exhibition) Byzantine Museum, Athens (exhibition)

Chapman University, Orange, California (collection)

The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (exhibition)

Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island (solo exhibition)

HONORS AND AWARDS

2013 Bronx Museum AIM Residency

2012 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award Finalist, Bloom Art Award, Germany

2010 Thanatopolis Special Artist Award and Public Outdoor Commission Puffin Foundation Grant Award

2009 Fundraiser Co-Chair, The Indigo Youth Movement, New York and Durban, KwaZulu-Natal Public Ambassador, Element Advocate, international print and media campaign

2007 Honorable Mention, Jury Prize, Nascent Art, New York

RESIDENCIES

2012/3 Bronx Museum AIM Residency, New York

2009 Northern California’s Public Art Academy, San Jose, California

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