Nadia Hironaka | USA

HOME, 2004, 9:55

Home explores the physical, mental, and cinematic
spaces connected with the domestic environment. A loss of
present grounding unfolds both spatially and temporally as
images speed up and break free from the confines of the structured
frame. In Home the intimate spatial surroundings of the home
environment ultimately lead to disorientation and panic.

Nadia Hironaka received her Masters of Fine Art in film from The Art Institute of Chicago (1999) and her Bachelors of Fine Art from The University of the Arts (1997). Currently she resides in Philadelphia and teaches at The University of Pennsylvania and at Temple’s Tyler School of Art. Active within the community she is a supporter of local art venues and a member of the non-profit artist-run gallery, Vox Populi. Additionally she is a member of the non-profit interactive media lab, Harvestworks (NYC), and was a artist in residence at FABRICA (Italy). She was awarded a Peter Stuyvessant Fish Award in Media Arts and has received awards from: The Independence Foundation, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Leeway Foundation, Black Maria Film Festival, The New York Short Exposition Film Festival. Her films and video installations have been exhibited internationally in: Rencontres Internationals (Paris/Berlin), The Den Haag Film and Video Festival (The Netherlands), The Center for Contemporary Arts (Kitakyushu, Japan), The Black Maria Film Festival, The Donnell Library (NYC), The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), The Galleries at Moore College of Art (Philadelphia), and Vox Populi, (Philadelphia). Upcoming exhibitions include The Philadelphia Film Festival of Independents (April, 2005) and a solo museum exhibition at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Morris Gallery (2006).