About

Ira Eduardovna is a video installation artist and a filmmaker who was born and raised in Uzbekistan. She currently lives and works in NYC.

Eduardovna’s work reconstructs narratives of autobiographical nature and examines issues of migration and displacement through non-linear story telling. 

Eduardovna is the recipient of numerous awards including: The Guggenheim Fellowship for video and film (2025), New York Foundation for the Arts (2018) , New York State Council on the Arts grant for film and electronic media (2019, 2015) , Gesher Film Fund - for development of a script for a feature film (2021) , The New Fund for Film and Television (2022) , 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 the Oi Futuro Museum (Rio de Janeiro), Museum Morsbroich (Germany), LOOP Video Art Fair (Barcelona), the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), and FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art (Prague).

She participated in residency programs such as Artport, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Smack Mellon, Art Omi, Futura Center for Contemporary Art in Prague among others.

In 2021 she published her first graphic novel “The iron road” and in 2025 she made her first narrative short film “Tongue behind teeth”. She is currently working on her first feature film.

Eduardovna taught video and film in undergraduate and graduate programs such as:  Parsons The New School NYC, Pratt Institute NYC, Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA), Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. and School of the museum at Tufts University in Boston.

She holds an MFA from Hunter College, New York since 2012.