About
Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib have worked as artistic collaborators since 2008. Their collaborative projects have been exhibited in museums, galleries and film festivals worldwide. Their HD installation Provisional Monument for the New Revolution is currently on exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and their recent collaboration with Spencer C. Yeh, 1967 was presented at International House as part of their Wave Currents series in May of 2011 (Philadelphia).
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. Currently she resides in Philadelphia and is a professor at The Maryland Institute College of Art. 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: PULSAR (Venezuela), Rencontres Internationals (Paris/Berlin), The Den Haag Film and Video Festival (The Netherlands), The Center for Contemporary Arts (Kitakyushu, Japan), The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Morris Gallery, 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). Hironaka’s second solo museum exhibtion “The Late Show” was recently presented at Arizona State University Art Museum.
Philadelphia-based artist Matthew Suib has exhibited installations, video/sound works and photographs internationally at venues including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Kunstwerke Berlin, Mercer Union (Toronto), The Corcoran Gallery of Art (D.C.) and PS1 Contemporary Art Center (NYC), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), and the 2007 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. His 2006 project Purified By Fire has been commissioned for exhibition in Miami, Chicago, Toronto and Paris. In 2011, Suib was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He was also a 2005 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellow, and a former member of the esteemed Philadelphia artist collective Vox Populi.
In 2007, as an extension of their artistic practice, Hironaka & Suib founded Screening (www.screeningvideo.org). Philadelphia’s first gallery dedicated to the presentation of innovative and challenging works on video and film, Screening is a project devoted to expanding access to these media and exploring the influence of moving image culture on our understanding and experience of the world. Screening’s program has included solo exhibitions of work by internationally renowned artists including Johan Grimonprez, Takeshi Murata, Adam Putnam, Mark Lewis, Kelly Richardson, Mungo Thomson, Lars Laumann and others.
NADIA HIRONAKA
1999 M.F.A, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1997 B.F.A., The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
MATTHEW SUIB
1995 B.F.A., The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Exhibitions
2011
One is the Loneliest Number, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
1967, International House Philadelphia
2010
Soft and Hard, Young Projects at The Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
A Light at the End of the Tunnel, Scope Basel Cinema
Whiteout, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Post-Revolutionary Selections from the Powel House Moving Image Archive, 1888-2089, Landmarks
Contemporary Projects, Powel House Museum, Philadelphia
Right Here, Out There (Nowhere), Neon Campobase, Bologna, Italy
Right Here, Out There (Nowhere), Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn
Cinema Loop, curated by Paul Young, ARCO, Madrid
2009
Optica Festival, Buenos Aires/ Cordoba/ Paris
Black Hole, Kim Light Lightbox, Los Angeles
Implosion or Fusion, Shang Elements Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing
Mnemosyne, curated by Camilla Boemio, Centro Arti Visive, Pesaro, Italy
X Media Forum of the 31st Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow
Chimera, Envoy Enterprises, NYC
Chimera, Arcade Experimental Projects, Cyprus, Greece
2008
Salad Days (curated by Christopher Lew, PS1), Artists Space, NYC
Black Hole, Vox Populi, Philadelphia
The Soft Epic, or: Savages of the Pacific West, The Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia
The Soft Epic, or: Savages of the Pacific West, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles
Cut!, Monkeytown, NYC
Recontres Internationale, Paris/ Berlin
Prequel, Philagrafika’s 2008 Artist Portfolio, featured artists
Selected Exhibitions (Hironaka)
2008
The Late Show, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2007
Death Bizarre, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
2006
Scared to Death, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
The Late Show, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
PULSAR, Caracas Contemporary Museum of Art, Venezuela
Selected Exhibitions (Suib)
2008
Purified By Fire, commission for Nuit Blanche, Toronto
2007
The Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Locally Localized Gravity, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
MultiPlex: Infinitu et Contini, Smackmellon, NY
Bibliography
2010
Sue Spaid, Nadia Hironaka / Matthew Suib, Art US, #29, September 2010
Edith Newhall, Summer Whiteout, The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 11th, 2010
Roberta Fallon, Whiteout, The Philadelphia Weekly, July 13th, 2010
Edith Newhall, Dreamhouse, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25th, 2010
Jonathan Wallis, PERSPECTIVE: “Post-Revolutionary Selections” at the Powel House Museum,
City Paper, April 28th, 2010
2009
Leah Ollman, Getting Sucked into ‘Black Hole’, Los Angeles Times, August 14th, 2009
2008
Sarah Kessler, “Critics Pick”, Artforum.com, August 2008