About

Ira Eduardovna is a video installation artist and filmmaker born and raised in Uzbekistan. She currently lives and works in New York City.

Eduardovna’s work reconstructs autobiographical narratives and explores themes of migration and displacement through nonlinear storytelling.

She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film-Video, a New York Foundation for the Arts award (2018), New York State Council on the Arts grants for Film and Electronic Media (2015, 2019), Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, Artis Exhibition Grant, among others.

Her work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions at venues including Anthology Film Archives; the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt; Oi Futuro Museum in Rio de Janeiro; Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen, Germany; LOOP Video Art Fair in Barcelona; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; and FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague.

Eduardovna has participated in residency programs at Artport, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Smack Mellon, Art Omi, and FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, among others.

In 2021, she published her first graphic novel, The Iron Road. In 2025, she completed her first narrative short film, Tongue Behind Teeth. She is currently developing her first feature film.

Eduardovna has taught video and film in undergraduate and graduate programs at institutions including Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York City, Pratt Institute in New York City, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston. She currently teaches in the MFA Photography and Film program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

She received her MFA from Hunter College in New York in 2012.