Prina is a visual artist and currently teaches at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He received his M.F.A. at California Institute of the Arts in 1980 and has had numerous one-person shows in the United States and Europe since then, including at such venues as Kunstverein Frankfurt (2000), Art Pace, San Antonio (2000), Musée d'art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva (1998), and DAAD Galerie in Berlin (1996). This year he participated in the group shows "Art/Music: rock, pop, techno" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and in "In Between: Art and Architecture" at MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles.