Artist Name: Ira Eduardovna
Residency Dates: October – November 2025
Born: 1980
Hometown: Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Lives & Works: New York City
URL: iraeduardovna.com | Instagram @eduardovnaira
Gallery: Chelouche Gallery
Education:
2011 – MFA, Hunter College, NYC
2004 – BFA, Tel Aviv University
Bio/Statement:
Ira Eduardovna is a video installation artist and filmmaker. Her practice focuses on migration, displacement, and memory, exploring how trauma and healing intersect through reenactment. Using video installations and drawings, she deconstructs autobiographical narratives by manipulating time, repetition, and perspective to reveal layered personal and collective histories. Ira examines familial structures and memory’s imperfections—how certain moments are preserved while others fade or are erased. By presenting multiple timelines and exposing the mechanics of artistic production, her installations challenge conventional narratives and question the reliability of memory. Reenactment is central to her work, serving as a tool to process trauma. Through subtle shifts in location, objects, and sound, Ira invites viewers to witness the interplay between past and present, and between personal and collective memory.
Ira Eduardovna is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the Ostrovsky Family Fund, and the Jerome Foundation. She has participated in artist residencies at LMCC, Smack Mellon, Artport Tel Aviv, and Art Omi. Eduardovna’s work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including There is no word…Approaches to a feeling, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (2024), The Iron Road, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2023), The Iron Road, LOOP Video Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain, (2022), AMOR, Oi Futuro museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016), and Mother, FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic (2013).
Support: Ira Eduardovna’s residency is made possible with support from The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life.
