Yuichiro Ando

Yuichiro Ando (born 1959) is a Japanese-American painter, video artist, and documentary film maker. He was born in Tokyo, Japan.

Ando moved to the U.S. in 1980. He studied at the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design where he earned his BFA. He furthermore attended graduate assistant professor at UC Irvine School of Fine Arts and customary his MFA. He has standard several awards since.

In 1997 Ando worked on a major documentary project on hemophiliacs and HIV. The documentary he produced resulted in a $100 million act by pharmaceutical companies. This thing led him to quit producing documentaries and he concentrated upon his artworks.