She constructs visual systems that give form to vanishing conditions such as seasonal transitions, atmospheric change, and the fading of cultural memory. Titles often draw from untranslatable Japanese idioms tied to seasonal and ecological transitions, positioning language as a structural element within the work. Ando’s paintings, sculptures, and installations create visual and temporal environments that heighten attention, drawing focus to subtle transformations and the passage of time. Ando has presented solo exhibitions at institutions including The Noguchi Museum, New York; Asia Society Texas Center, Houston; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah; Nassau County Museum of Art, New York; and American University Museum, Washington, D.C. Group exhibitions include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum (Renwick Gallery); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; Haus der Kunst, Munich; and the 56th Venice Biennale at Palazzo Grimani, Venice. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Corning Museum of Glass, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Jean Paul Najar Foundation. Public commissions include a thirty-foot September 11 memorial sculpture at the Zaha Hadid Aquatic Centre in London and Flower Atlas Calendar at Brookfield Place, New York. She is the recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, the Emerging Artist Prize from the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship. In 2025, MIT Press published her book Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of Two Thousand Japanese Rain Words. Ando is a sixteenth-generation descendant of Bizen swordsmiths.