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Sayaka Ganz was born in Yokohama, Japan, and raised in Japan, Brazil and Hong Kong. She took her B.F.A. at Indiana University Bloomington and her M.F.A. in sculpture at Bowling Green State University in 2008. From 2002 to 2012 she taught design and drawing at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne, and she lives and works in Fort Wayne. Ganz builds animals in motion — horses, birds, sea creatures — out of reclaimed plastic and metal household objects, a method she describes as "3D impressionism": from a distance the forms read as solid creatures; up close they dissolve into forks, strainers and toys. Her Ambush is permanently installed in the Fort Wayne Museum of Art's educational wing, and her work has been exhibited and collected in London, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco and Toledo as well as in Fort Wayne.
Sources: City of Las Cruces / Las Cruces Museum of Art artist releases (January 2026); Whatzup (Fort Wayne); University of South Dakota visiting-artist notice.