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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-size:14px\"&gt;Miya Ando is an American artist whose metal canvases and sculpture articulate themes of perception and ones relationship to time. The foundation of her practice is transformation of surfaces. &amp;nbsp;Half Japanese &amp;amp; &amp;nbsp;half Russian-American, Ando is a descendant of Bizen sword makers and was raised in a Buddhist temple in Japan and a redwood forest in Northern California.&amp;nbsp;She has continued her 16th generation Japanese sword smithing and Buddhist lineage by combining metals, reflectivity and light in her abstract paintings and sculpture. In 2011 she completed a memorial sculpture for 9/11 in which she utilized a 30 foot tall piece of steel which had fallen from the World Trade Center Buildings, the sculpture is permanently displayed in front of Zaha Hadid\u2019s Aquatic Centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. Ando\u2019s work is has been exhibited extensively throughout the world, including a recentshow curated by Guggenheim curator Nat Trotman. Miya\u2019s public commissions include projects in South Korea, London, New York and California. Her work appears in many important public and private collections and she is the recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2012, the Thanatopolis Special Artist Award and Public Outdoor Commission Winner and Puffin Foundation Grant winner. She received her Bachelor of Science Magna Cum Laude in East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley and continued her studies at Yale University, in addition to serving as an apprentice to a master metal smith in Japan. Miya\u2019s large scale artwork \u201CEmptiness The Sky\u201D (Shou Sugi Ban) is featured in the \u201CFrontiers Reimagined\u201D exhibition in the 56th Venice Biennale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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