Miya Masaoka
Miya Masaoka is an American sonic artist, composer and performer. Her work explores bodily perception of vibration, movement, and time, while foregrounding complex timbre relationships. Her body of work encompasses scores for orchestras and ensembles, sculpture works instigating new modes of listening, interactive media and critical writing. Her work has been presented at the Venice Biennale, MoMA PS1, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, ICA Philadelphia and a two-floor solo exhibit at Savvy Contemporary, Berlin. Masaoka has been commissioned by and collaborated with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Glasgow Choir, Bang on a Can, Jack Quartet, Sō Percussion, Del Sol, Momenta, S.E.M. Ensemble, Either/Or Ensemble, and the International Contemporary Ensemble, among others. As an improvisor, she has performed and/or recorded with Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Henry Brant, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Pauline Oliveros and many others. Among her awards are the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Luciano Berio Rome Prize in Music Composition, United States Artists USA Fellowship, the Doris Duke Artist Award, and the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts and the Fulbright Scholarship.
Her writings have been published by The Drama Review (MIT) and Peripheries (Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions).
News
Associate Professor and Director Sound Art Miya Masaoka has been announced as one of the winners of the prestigious Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.
Yesterday, the 2021 Guggenheim fellowships were announced, and several Columbia Faculty and Alumni are among the recipients.
Associate Professor Miya Masaoka was among the featured artists in this year’s virtual Bang on a Can Marathon Concert.
Associate Professor Miya Masaoka, Director of the Sound Art MFA program, has been awarded a prestigious new Music Commission and residency from EMPAC, the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Professor Miya Masaoka, Head of Sound Art, has been invited to the Inaugural Toronto Biennial, which is a new international contemporary visual arts event that stretches across Toronto’s waterfront. She also had a recent exhibition at the Gutenberg Sound Art Academy, located in Mainz, Germany.