Miya Masaoka is a composer, sound artist, and musician with works that include pieces for orchestra, acoustic phenomena, video, electronics, and installation. Her work explores the natural world, bodily perception of vibration, movement, and time, while foregrounding complex timbre relationships alongside performance, social, and historical references. As an improvisor, Masaoka has performed and recorded with artists such as Pauline Oliveros, Cecil Taylor, Pharoah Sanders, Henry Brandt, Christan Wolfe, Anthony Braxton, Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman, Zeena Parkins, and Myra Melford. She recently had a three-floor solo exhibition of sound and visual art at SAVVY in Germany.

Her works have been presented at the Venice Biennale, MoMA PS1, Tanglewood, Kunstmuseum Bonn, ICA Philadelphia, Park Avenue Armory, Governors Island, and commissioned by the Fromm Foundation, EMPAC, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jack, MIVOS, Del Sol Quartet, the S.E.M. Ensemble, Either/Or Ensemble, Bang On a Can, Del Sol, Volta, Alonzo King, the Library of Congress, Maerzmusik, Ostrava Days and the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the Miller Theater's Composer Portrait series. 

Masaoka is a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, and Rome Prize Fellow. She has received the Alpert Award and Doris Duke Artist Award as well as support from the Fromm Music Foundation and a residency at Park Avenue Armory. She is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Visual Art at Columbia University. Masaoka’s writing has been published by The Theater Review (NYU) and Peripheries (Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions).