Nadia Hironaka
Nadia Hironaka creates films, videos, immersive installations and environments, and public artworks. Working across moving-image culture and mass media idioms, Hironaka builds counter-mythologies, alternate or parallel realities, and forward-looking visions of the world around us. Her collaborative practice embraces research and experimentation, encompassing historical fact, popular fiction and creative speculation.
Hironaka is a recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Pew Fellowships in the Arts and Fellowships from CFEVA and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her work has been widely exhibited both domestically and abroad at venues including, Fondazione MAXXI (Rome), New Media Gallery (Vancouver), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), UCLA Hammer Museum and Arizona State University Art Museum. Nadia Hironaka serves as a professor of film and video and studio arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, their daughter and two cats.
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2022
Residencies
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NADIA HIRONAKA
Nadia Hironaka will work in collaboration with Philadelphia Folklore Project to develop "Imaginary Lines", a multi-faceted, collaborative media project focused on amplifying collective storytelling and mythmaking in displaced communities. Through this residency, they will host a series of storytelling/writing workshops with Latin American immigrants living in Philadelphia that focus on personal accounts of border-crossing. From those stories, they will develop an 8-10 minute film using hand-drawn and digital animation that represents the narratives in folkloric terms and counters reductive, negative, and often hostile narratives about immigrants, particularly Latin American immigrants.
PHILADELPHIA FOLKLORE PROJECT
The Philadelphia Folklore Project is widely regarded as a beacon for socially conscious and anti-racist work in the fields including public folklore, applied ethnomusicology, and anthropology. One of a few independent folk and traditional arts nonprofits nationwide, PFP remains a model for how to sustain vital and diverse living cultural heritage.
2003
Window of Opportunity Grant (WOO)
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Sculptural/video installation that explores connections between cinematic, sculptural and architectural spaces. Part of a group exhibition at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Support towards materials and production expenses.
2001
Window of Opportunity Grant (WOO)
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Support for a media arts presentation at group exhibition at the Butcher Shop Gallery in Chicago, May-June, 2001.