Nadia Hironaka received her Masters of Fine Art from The Art Institute of Chicago and her Bachelors of Fine Art from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Currently she resides in Philadelphia and is a professor in the Video and Film Arts department at The Maryland Institute College of Art. Active within the community she is a supporter of local art venues and in 2007 co-founded Philadelphia's only gallery dedicated to the moving image, Screening. She is a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellow and received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2006, other awards include: The Leeway Foundation, Peter Stuyvessant Fish Award in Media Arts, prog:me video artist award, The Black Maria Film Festival, and The New York Short Exposition Film Festival. Her films and video installations have been exhibited internationally in: Rencontres Internationals, Paris; The Elements Museum, Beijing, China; The Den Haag Film and Video Festival, The Netherlands; The Center for Contemporary Arts, Kitakyushu, Japan; The Black Maria Film Festival, Jersey City; The Donnell Library, New York; Artists Space, New York; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Morris Gallery, Philadelphia; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe; Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles.
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