Ira Eduardovna
Born in Uzbekistan, lives and works in NY and Tel Aviv
www.iraeduardovna.com
http://www.chelouchegallery.com/artistWorks.php?id=124
Selected Awards and Residencies
2023
New Fund for Film and Television - Production Fund
Grant for creative encouragement - Ministry of Culture and Sport, Israel
2022
Artport residency Tel Aviv, Israel 2022-2023
Gesher Film Fund - for development of a script for a feature film
New Fund for Film and Television - Development lab for a short film
2020
Artport residency Tel Aviv, Israel (International resident)
2019
New York State Council on the Arts – Electronic media and film grant
Ostrovsky Family Fund
Asylum Arts grant
PAIS Israel Lottery Council grant for culture and arts
2018
New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship
Jerome Foundation travel and study grant
2017
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council - workspace program, NY 2016-2017
2016
PAIS Israel Lottery Council grant for culture and arts
LES studio residency - Artist Alliance, NYC
Wave Hill Winter Workspace residency 2016
2015
New York State Council on the Arts – electronic media and film grant
Asylum Arts grant
Smack Mellon residency, NY 2014-2015
2014
OMI International Arts Center residency, NY
Asylum Arts grant
The Marble House residency, Dorsett, Vermont
2013
Futura Center for Contemporary Art residency, Prague, Czech Republic
Ostrovsky Family Fund award 2013
2012
Artis Exhibition grant
Ostrovsky Family Fund award
Triangle Art Association workshop, NY
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2023
The Iron Road, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, curator: Raz Samira (solo)
The Iron Road - The drawings - Chelouche gallery, Tel Aviv (solo)
2022
The Iron Road, LOOP video art fair – Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2019
Family portrait, Chelouche gallery, Tel Aviv (solo)
2018
On foreign made soles: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, curator: Shua Ben Ari (solo)
On foreign made soles: LOOP video art fair – Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2017
To Prague with Love: Cuchifritos gallery, NYC, curator: Sanna Almajedi (solo)
Diminuendo: Unisex Gallery, Brooklyn NY (solo), curator: Jonathan Elliot
2016
The space between: Ira Eduardovna and Nadja Frank – Art in buildings program, time equities, NY, curator: Jennie Lamensdorf
2015
A thousand years: 1708 gallery, Richmond, VA, curator: Emily Smith (solo)
2014
Mother – Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University Art Gallery, Hempstead NY, curator: Daniel Devine
2013
Ira Eduardovna – Mother – FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art, Karlin Studios, Prague, Czech Republic (solo), curator: Michal Novotny
Mother- Vox Populi gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Terminus - Baruch College New Media Art Department Gallery, NYC, curator: Katherine Behar (solo)
2012
That. There. Then. - Momenta Art, Brooklyn NY, curator: Eric Heist (solo)
The Library room - Braverman gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)
Nothing sound in it and nothing true: Ira Eduardovna, Heesoup Yoon – ArtGate gallery, NY, curator: Sylvia Kim
Selected group exhibitions
2024
At home - Dwelling of Loves and Anxieties, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel, curator: Kobi Ben Meir
2023
Nonfinito - Artport Tel Aviv, curator: Vardit Gross
Bet Alpha - The Kira A. Princess of Prussia Foundation, Villa Mautner-Jäger, Vienna, curator: Ory Dessau
2022
Still life - Zuzu gallery, Emek Hefer, curator: Ruty Chinsky Amitay
Zumu - The museum on the road, station 5 - Naharia. curator: Shua Ben Ari
2019
The principle of superposition, Arad Center for Contemporary Art, Arad, Israel, curator Gili Zaidman
Zumu - the museum on the road, station 4 - Kiryat Yam, curator: Ruthie Oppenheim
2017
Dreamland not found – Jerusalem Biennial, Bezeq house Jerusalem, curator: Maria Veits
2016
AMOR– Oi Futuro museum, Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil, curators: Denise Carvalho and Monika Szewczyk
2015
Love at the edge - Galeria Arsenal Bialystok, Poland, curators: Denise Carvalho and Monika Szewczyk
Try a little Tenderness: Nine films about being vulnerable - Anthology Film Archives, NY, curator: Sasha Waters Fryer
2014
Beyond Limits – in conjunction with Post Global Biennial in Poland – San Diego Art Institute, curator: Denise Carvalho
Pardes – Koffler Center for the Arts, Toronto, Canada, curator: Liora Belford
2013
The world and its things in the middle of their intimacy – Fridman gallery, NY, curator: Sarah Walko
Displaced visions, Émigré photographers of the 20 century, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, curator: Nisan Perez
Matinee – Lesley Heller gallery, NY, curator: Lelsley Heller
2012
Migration, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe Vermont, curator: Rachel Moore
2011
Hunter MFA Thesis exhibition, Hunter college gallery, New York
2010
Signals Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel, curator: Danna Heller
Volume At1 art space, Los Angeles, curator: Andrea Neustein
Site Unseen Royal College of Art Gallery, London, UK curator: Fabian Tabiban
2009
Don’t flea the art market Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, curator: Paulina Bebecka
Incidents/Accidents Hogar Collection Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curator: Gerelyn Blakstone Bridges
Selected Festivals and Screenings
2018
D’est: Performing words, Uttering performance, Filmwerkstatt, Dusseldorf, Germany, curators: Maria Veitz, Inga Lace
2012
Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem, Israel
2011
Art on Brighton, art festival, Brooklyn NY
2010
Visionaria - Loop Video art festival, Barcelona, Spain
2009
Festival della Creatività Florence, Italy
Electroprojections "Fight" Japan Media Arts festival The national Art Center, Tokyo,Japan
Festival Miden 2008 Contemporary video art festival, Kalamata, Greece
2008
21th Instants Video Festival Paris Cinema MK2, Paris, France
21th Instants Video Festival Marseille La compagnie, Marseille, France
17th International Toscana film festival VisionAria 2008 Vision art in movement Video_Dumbo, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn NY – curated by: Norene Leddy and Liz Slagus
Visionaria: Galleria Agora, Piombino, Italy (catalog) The 809 International New Image Art Festival - Art Museum of the 809 International Art District, Yichang City, China
Urban Screens 2008 Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
Simultan Video and Media Art Festival Timisoara, Romania
Oslo Screen festival Cinemateque Oslo, Norway
Videoholica 08 Video Art Biennale, City Gallery Varna, Bulgaria
Festival Miden 2008 Contemporary Video Art Festival, Kalamata, Greece
Cartes Flux 3 Festival of Media Art, Espoo, Finland
San Francisco Women Film Festival San Francisco, USA
Laptopia #4 Experimental Art Festival, Levontin 7, Tel Aviv, Israel
Book
2022
The Iron Road
Selected Press
2024
Frank Weiffen - Emotional exhibition, Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger (GER)
Monika Klein - Artists trace the feeling of home, Reinische Post (GER)
Gilead Metzer - No place like home - exhibition at Haifa museum more relevant than ever - HaAretz (Hebrew)
Naama Haneman - The Iron road, Interview - Madaf
Yuval Saar - Last chance to see, The Iron Road - Portfolio Magazine
2023
Ofir Hovav - Ira Eduardovna, Interview - HaAretz
Dekel Shai Skhori - In the graphic Novel “The Iron Road” Ira Eduardovna is trying to fixate memory, Portfolio Magazine
Basia Monka - Restoring Memory, Interview - Jerusalem Post
Dori Ben Alon - The Iron Road, Art Today
2018
Yuval Saar – On the way back home: Ira Eduardovna returns to Tashkent, Portfolio magazine, Israel
Goel Pinto – Kan Culture, Interview with Ira Eduardovna, Reshet Bet radio, Israel
Smadar Shefi – On foreign made soles, Ira Eduardovna at the Israel Museum, The window online art magazine
2017
Barry Davis - No place like home – Jerusalem Post
2016
Get to Know: Ira Eduardovna, Art in Buildings Blog
Constructing Filmic Narratives: an Interview with Ira Eduardovna, Wavehill
2015
Amanda Dalla Villa Adams – Mining memory: Ira Eduardovna in Richmond, Burnaway
2014
Smack Mellon Interview Ira Eduardovna, Smack Mellon NY
2013
Stephen Knudsen - The Multiple Realities and Other Worlds of Art,
Hyperallergic
2012
Paul D’Agostino – 12 best shows of 2012 in Brooklyn, L magazine
Paul D’Agostino – Sounds of Near Silence, L magazine
Smadar Sheffi – “Folding family” – Galleria, Haaretz, Israel
Hila Skolnik Brener – “Anything that moves” city mouse magazine, Israel
2011
Olga Connor - “Exposición MIAC III: “Lejos de la horda” – El Nuevo Herald
2010
Daniel Rauchverger - Video Art Exhibitions Trilogy in Bat Yam – Galleria, Haarets, Israel
Hagit Peleg Rotem - Museum’s portrait as a domestic space – Globes Newspaper, Israel
Vardit Gross -"If You Read This Article You Will Lose Your Sword", a conversation with Ira Eduardovna, Artis website
2009
Amir Coen - Orot Israeli cultural Magazine of art and literature - cover, Israel
Adriana Grant - “Ira Eduardovna’s videos play to our voyeuristic instincts” Seattle Post Intelligence
Erica Hobart - “Ira Eduardovna: Vagabond” Seattle Weekly
2008
“Le Coup de coeur” Article Marseille l'hebdo, France 2008
Catalogues:
2021
Zumu - the museum on the road
2019
Zumu - the museum on the road
2016
Denise Carvalho AMOR, exhibition book
2015
Denise Carvalho - Love at the edge, exhibition catalogue
2014
Liora Belford – Pardes, exhibition catalogue
2013
Nisan Perez – Displaced visions, Emigree photographers of the 20 century, Exhibition book, The Israel museum
Sarah Walko -The world and its things in the middle of their intimacy, exhibition catalogue
2010
Danna Heller - Signals – Exhibition catalogue, Bat Yam Museum of Modern Art, Israel
2008
Maria Tjader - Knight - Cartes Flux 3 exhibition catalogue Pino Modica –
Visionaria Exhibition catalogue
Paraflows Exhibition catalogue
Education:
2011
MFA – Hunter College New York, NY, USA
2004
BA in Education and Art – Tel Aviv University, Holon Academic institute of technology
Teaching
2022-2023
Visiting Professor - Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, Israel
2018-2019
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Parsons The New School
2017
Full time visiting professor – School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
2016
Visiting Professor – Virginia Commonwealth University – Graduate department of film and photography, Richmond, VA
Visiting Artist and Lectures
2021
Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, Israel
2016
School of Visual Arts Graduate Department of Media Arts, NY
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2015
Parsons The New School for Design, NY
Hofstra University, Hempstead NY 2014 Baruch College, NY
2012
Hunter College, NY
Collections
Tel Aviv Museum Collection
The Israel Museum Collection
Haaretz collection
Private collections