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Hironaka & Suib > Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib – A Collaborative Practice https://hironakasuib.com Hironaka & Suib > Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib – A Collaborative Practice Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:04:27 +0000 https://hironakasuib.com en Home Page https://hironakasuib.com/Home-Page Sat, 17 Sep 2022 18:36:16 +0000 Hironaka & Suib > Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib – A Collaborative Practice https://hironakasuib.com/Home-Page Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib BioWorksContact ABOUT/BIO https://hironakasuib.com/ABOUT-BIO Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:20:46 +0000 Hironaka & Suib > Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib – A Collaborative Practice https://hironakasuib.com/ABOUT-BIO About The Philadelphia-based artists Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib have been collaborators since 2008. They are recipients of several honored awards including a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Pew Fellowships in the Arts and Fellowships from CFEVA and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Their 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, PS1/MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Arizona State University Art Museum. They have been artists-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Banff Centre, Marble House Project and the Millay Colony for Arts. Matthew Suib is co-founder of Greenhouse Media and Nadia Hironaka serves as a professor of film and video and studio arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Hironaka & Suib are represented by Locks Gallery. The couple, along with their daughter and two cats reside in South Philly. From 2007-2010, as an extension of their artistic practice, Hironaka and Suib founded Screening. Philadelphia’s first gallery dedicated to the presentation of innovative and challenging works on video and film, Screening was 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 Joan Jonas, Johan Grimonprez, Takeshi Murata, Mark Lewis, Kelly Richardson, Pat O’Neill, Valérie Mréjen and others. >> PORTFOLIO >> HOME PORTFOLIO page https://hironakasuib.com/PORTFOLIO-page Sat, 17 Sep 2022 18:36:17 +0000 Hironaka & Suib > Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib – A Collaborative Practice https://hironakasuib.com/PORTFOLIO-page Works: The Philadelphians, 2025 Field Companion, 2021A House in the Garden, 2020 Moon Viewing Platform, 2019Pink Carnations, 2019 Vanitas MMXVlll, 2018Bright White Light, 2017Dark Light, 2017 Writing History With Lightning, 2016Unsung, 2016A Splendid Little War / Still Savages &Lost Loves / Love Lost, 2016Post-Perceptual Excercises, I-III, 2014-2015The Continuous Moment, 2014Ascension (with Cat), 2014Exploded View, 2014 Ghosts of Philadelphia Industry, 2014 The Delight of Earthly Gardens, 2012Provisional Monument for the New Revolution, 20111967, 2011The Fall, 2010 Whiteout, 2010Revolutionary Selections from the Powel House Moving Image Archive, 1888-2089, 2010 Right Here, Out There (Nowhere), 2010 The Soft Epic, or: Savages of the Pacific West, 2008Black Hole, 2008 HOME The Philadelphians Project https://hironakasuib.com/The-Philadelphians-Project Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:52:58 +0000 Hironaka & Suib > Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib – A Collaborative Practice https://hironakasuib.com/The-Philadelphians-Project The Philadelphians 2025, public film installation, 16mm film and UHD video, continuous loop Produced over the course of a year working with an amazing team at Philadelphia’s Office of Immigrant Affairs - The Philadelphians is a series of film portraits shot on 16mm and video projected 360° around the LOVE Park Welcome Center. Together, the films comprise a portrait of the City’s global roots and community values through images and words of everyday Philadelphians who make their neighborhoods and the city a better place. The films are a reminder, at a time when many would deny immigrants a place in our communities, campuses, workplaces and even History books, that Philadelphia has always been and will always be a city of immigrants.Portrait participants include Philadelphians who are building up and sustaining their neighborhoods, communities, and city. They include a public servant, educator, pastor, baker entrepreneur, community leaders and others working with the artists to shape the film through image and text pulled from interviews that touch on culture, heritage, history, as well as their individual and shared identities as Philadelphians. Woven into the portrait films are archival film images of immigrant communities, and original footage from a series of creative workshops, picturing the hands of immigrant and second-generation Philadelphians making traditional and contemporary crafts. These hands are engaged in creative work that strengthens community connections and enriches the cultural fabric of Philadelphia. The Philadelphians  was the second project from Forman Arts Initiative (FAI) and Mural Arts Philadelphia’s (MAP) Public Works program, a residency program that embeds artists within Philadelphia’s civic agencies.  >> PUBLIC INSTALLATION >> FILMS>> PORTFOLIO>> HOME The Philadelphians Installation https://hironakasuib.com/The-Philadelphians-Installation Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:44:10 +0000 Hironaka & Suib > Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib – A Collaborative Practice https://hironakasuib.com/The-Philadelphians-Installation The PhiladelphiansInstallation Views, LOVE Park, Philadelphia >> PROJECT>> FILMS>> PORTFOLIO>> HOME The Philadelphians Portrait Films https://hironakasuib.com/The-Philadelphians-Portrait-Films-1 Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:04:27 +0000 Hironaka & Suib > Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib – A Collaborative Practice https://hironakasuib.com/The-Philadelphians-Portrait-Films-1 The PhiladelphiansFilm Portraits >> PROJECT>> INSTALLATION>> PORTFOLIO>> HOME Field Companion https://hironakasuib.com/Field-Companion Sat, 17 Sep 2022 18:44:54 +0000 Hironaka & Suib > Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib – A Collaborative Practice https://hironakasuib.com/Field-Companion Field Companion4k video with sound, 2021Running time: 20:40 Set in a microcosmic forest, the film is based loosely on the pine barrens that dot Southern New Jersey near the home of Hironaka & Suib. Like many, the duo found refuge and solace throughout the COVID-19 pandemic hiking and foraging in these remote, natural landscapes. As America's social fabric frayed deeply over recent years, they considered forest ecosystems in terms of symbiotic and collaborative relationships that sustain coexistence and community. In Field Companion, the forest has been condensed and transplanted to a terrarium in the artists’ studio. Twelve cubic feet of pines, shrubs, ferns, moss, fungus and carnivorous plants are reflected infinitely in the terrarium’s mirrored walls and captured with a motion-controlled camera and specialized macro lens that dramatically shift the scale and perspective of this miniature landscape. Living dwellers—snails, slugs, and insects inhabit the miniature ecosystem, accompanied by digitally rendered part-animal, part-human creatures. Through their conversations and interactions, they look forward, investigating progressive methods of sustainability. The film also touches upon the notion of forest-bathing, the Japanese practice of exploring the natural environment through our senses. Field Companion was co-commissioned by Rowan University Art Gallery, Locust Projects and the New Jersey Council on the Arts.>> VIDEO>> INSTALLATION VIEWS>> PORTFOLIO>> HOME Field Companion video https://hironakasuib.com/Field-Companion-video Sat, 02 Dec 2023 16:10:44 +0000 Hironaka & Suib > Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib – A Collaborative Practice https://hironakasuib.com/Field-Companion-video Field Companion >> PREVIOUS >> INSTALLATION VIEWS >> PORTFOLIO >> HOME Field Companion installation https://hironakasuib.com/Field-Companion-installation Mon, 01 Jan 2024 17:24:13 +0000 Hironaka & Suib > Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib – A Collaborative Practice https://hironakasuib.com/Field-Companion-installation Field Companion Installation Views  <img width="3000" height="1991" width_o="3000" height_o="1991" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/170c813d3e88295f8ad863d135e83e44c25e20fe02f68d98b59fdab2844a9213/DSC00968_V1.jpg" data-mid="200525957" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ab82d7a41c433b16ef7b80981ac57ea787a02626477bf91c019841534667a61/2021_RU_Field_Companion-W-32.jpg" data-mid="203840518" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ab82d7a41c433b16ef7b80981ac57ea787a02626477bf91c019841534667a61/2021_RU_Field_Companion-W-32.jpg" /> Photo credit / Locust Projects, Miami: Zachary Balmer Photo credit / Rowan University Art Gallery, New Jersey: Constance Mensh >> PROJECT>> VIDEO>> PORTFOLIO>> HOME A House in the Garden https://hironakasuib.com/A-House-in-the-Garden Sun, 06 Aug 2023 21:04:05 +0000 Hironaka & Suib > Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib – A Collaborative Practice https://hironakasuib.com/A-House-in-the-Garden A House In the Garden: Shofuso & Modernism 2020, 4K video, 36:00 Directed by Nadia HironakaProduced by Matthew Suib & Aaron Igler of Greenhouse Media in association with Japan America Society of Greater PhiladelphiaMusic by John Carroll Kirby, courtesy Stones Throw Records Distinctive architecture, close connection to land and nature, deep respect for the architecture and craft traditions of Japan, as well as the early buildings and landscapes of Pennsylvania — this was the common ground for a tight-knit circle of artists and architects who expanded the parameters of modernism in the Philadelphia region and beyond. A House in the Garden: Shofuso and Modernism focuses on the personal, professional and artistic interconnections between renowned woodworker and architect George Nakashima, the husband and wife design team of Antonin Raymond and Noémi Pernessin Raymond, and Junzo Yoshimura — the first in a line of Japanese architects to find success in both Japan and in the United States. Through slowly unfolding visual explorations of three architecturally significant sites in the Philadelphia region, the film explores this circle's connections with Japan and the translation of their cross-cultural experiences and influences into design and built architectural work during the middle years of the twentieth century. Together, their environmentally and culturally sensitive design philosophies resonated globally and continue to influence architecture and design today. >> TRAILER>> PORTFOLIO>> HOME