A Guggenheim Fellow and United States Artist awardee, Donna Uchizono has received many awards and grants for her work including both National Endowment for the Arts Company Project Grants (8) and Fellowships (3), MAP Fund (4), Alpert Award, "Bessie" New York Dance and Performance Award, Jerome Foundation (3), National Performance Network Commission and Touring support (4) Creative Capital, both National Dance Project Commission (2) and Touring support (2), Dance Magazine Grant, and Metropolitan Life, among many other awards including extensive New York State and New York City sustained funding.
She was born on a US Army base in Tokyo, Japan, and grew up in Southern California.
In 1990 she established the Donna Uchizono Company dedicated to dance performance, where she serves as artistic director.
Donna Uchizono, confirmed by the New York Library for the Performing Arts, has been distinguished as being the first and only American-born choreographer of Asian ancestry in the history of Modern Dance, who has received cumulative national award recognition and toured an eponymous dance company across the US and internationally.
She has been a dance advocate in bringing light to the invisibility and perpetual foreigner syndrome that American-born of Asian descent face.