Artist: Ayako Abe-Miller | Location: Greenville, SC
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Artist: Ayako Abe-Miller | Location: Greenville, SC
Greenville, SC
Ayako Abe-Miller is a sculptor and Japanese Sumi (ink) painter. She was born in the northern part of Japan, and has lived in Tokyo, Australia, Singapore, New York City, and currently resides in South Carolina. She earned her Associate of Arts degree in English Literature from Toyo University in Tokyo, Japan and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in sculpture from Converse College in South Carolina. She is currently pursuing her Master of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in sculpture at Clemson University. Her Japanese calligraphy has been published in scholarly journals in Japan and her sculptures have been accepted and exhibited in galleries and museums in South Carolina, Georgia, California, New York, Maryland, Florida, Missouri, Italy, Bulgaria, and Portugal. In 2012, she was commissioned to make a large scale, metal sculpture for the new medical school of the University of South Carolina in Greenville, South Carolina.