Miya Ando is an American artist whose metal canvases and sculpture themes of perception and ones relationship to time. The foundation of her practice is transformation of surfaces. Half Japanese half Russian-American, Ando is a descendant of Bizen sword makers and raised in a Buddhist temple in Japan and a Redwood forest in Northern California. She has continued her 16th generation Japanese sword smithing and Buddhist lineage by combining metals, reflectivity and light in her abstract paintings and sculpture.