Ira Eduardovna
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The Iron Road (Teaser)
2021, Two channel video installation, Duration: 22 min
Diminuendo
2017, Four channel video installation Projected on architectural structure, 1:38 min.
A Thousand Years
2014, Three channel video installation, 10:00 min.
That. There. Then.
2012, Six channel video installation
The Cherry Orchard
2011, Two channel video installation Projected on a plaster object and a drywall
Princess Or Tiger
2010, Eight channel video installation, 8:28 min
Chekhov street #5
2009, Six channel stop motion animation installation, projected on a foldable plywood object Materials
The Library Room
2009, two channel video installation - projected on a foldable plywood object
April 22, 2025
Ira Eduardovna is awarded the prestigious 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship
Chelouche Gallery warmly congratulates artist Ira Eduardovna on being awarded the prestigious 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of Film & Video. Granted by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, this esteemed award is one of the most distinguished recognitions of artistic and scholarly excellence in the United States. Ira is a singular and powerful... ...
June 27, 2024
Congratulations for the purchase of 130 original drawings by Ira Eduardovna into Israel Museum Collection
The drawings appear in “The Iron Road”, a graphic novel by Ira Eduardovna. The graphic novel is a peek behind the scenes of the video work “The Iron Road”, shown at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art during 2023. While drawing and writing daily, the artist returned to the journey and to the significant place... ...
September 26, 2023
Ira Eduardovna: ‘Bet Alpha’ | Group Exhibition at Villa Mautner-Jäger, Vienna, Austria
Ira Eduardovna is a multi media artist and filmmaker living and working in New York and Tel Aviv. In her work, she reconstructs narratives of autobiographical nature and examines issues of migration and displacement through non-linear storytelling. “The Library Room” is part of Bet Alpha, a group exhibition curated by Ory Dessau and produced by... ...
August 12, 2023
Basia Monka, The Jerusalem Post, on Ira Eduardovna’s Exhibitions at Tel Aviv Museum and Chelouche Gallery
“It takes four nights and three days to travel from Uzbekistan to Russia by train. In the winter of 1990, my family and I took that train, as we were emigrating from the Soviet Union,” says Ira Eduardovna in her two-channel installation The Iron Road, now on view at Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Eduardovna recreates... ...
June 28, 2023
Ira Eduardovna: ‘The Iron Road – The Drawings’ | Exhibition, Garphic Novel Launch and gallery talk at Chelouche Gallery
Opening and launch: Saturday, 01.07.2023 at 12:00 Gallery talk with artist Ira Eduardovna and Aya Miron. The graphic novel ‘The Iron Road’, accompanies a video work that will be presented at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (opening on 16.06.2023). In Chelouche gallery, 140 original drawings will be displayed, accompanied by text written by the... ...
June 5, 2023
Ira Eduardovna: ‘The Iron Road’ | Solo Exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Opening: Thursday, 16.06.2023 Curator: Raz Samira Ira Eduardovna’s two-channel video, The Iron Road (2021), describes her family’s train ride from Uzbekistan to Russia, at the end of which they immigrated to Israel. Taking four nights and three days, the journey was the culmination of months of preparation for departure from their homeland. The artist reconstructs... ...
September 25, 2022
Chelouche Gallery at Loop Barcelona 2022
It takes four nights and three days to travel from Uzbekistan to Russia by train. The railroad goes northwest through Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Russia, crossing the changing landscape – from Uzbek cities and desert through the Kazakh steppe, to Russian forests. In the winter of 1990, my family and I took that train, as we... ...
Biography
Ira Eduardovna (b. 1980) is a video installation artist and filmmaker born and raised in
Uzbekistan. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Eduardovna’s work reconstructs autobiographical narratives and examines themes of migration
and displacement through non-linear storytelling. She often reenacts moments from her life—
shaped by broader historical circumstances—working with both professional actors and members
of her own family.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, grants from the
New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts (Film and
Electronic Media), as well as support from the Ostrovsky Family Fund and the Jerome
Foundation Travel and Study Grant, among others.
Her work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions and festivals at venues
such as the Loop Video Art Fair (Barcelona, Spain), The Jewish Museum Frankfurt (Germany),
Oi Futuro Museum (Rio de Janeiro), Museum Morsbroich (Leverkusen, Germany),the Tel Aviv
Museum of Art, Anthology Film Archives NYC, the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), and FUTURA
Center for Contemporary Art (Prague), among others.
She received her MFA from Hunter College, New York, in 2012.
Curriculum Vitae
Born in Uzbekistan
Lives and works in NY
Selected Awards and Residencies
2025 Diamond Award for best narrative short at the 2025 Jerusalem Film Festival
2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of Film & Video
2024 Peleh family residency, Berkeley, CA
2023 New Fund for Film and Television – Production Fund
2023 Grant for creative encouragement – Ministry of Culture and Sport, Israel
2022-2023 Artport residency
2022 Gesher Film Fund – for development of a script for a feature film
2022 New Israel 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
2019 Ostrovsky Family Fund
2019 Asylum Arts grant
2019 PAIS Israel Lottery Council Grant for Culture and Arts
2018 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship
2018 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
2016 LES studio residency – Artist Alliance, NYC
2016 Wave Hill Winter Workspace residency
2015 New York State Council on the Arts – Electronic Media and Film Grant
2015 Asylum Arts Grant
2014-2015 Smack Mellon Residency, NY
2014 OMI International Arts Center residency, NY
2014 Asylum Arts Grant
2014 The Marble House Residency, Dorsett, Vermont
2013 Futura Center for Contemporary Art residency, Prague, Czech Republic
2013 Ostrovsky Family Fund Award
2012 Artis Exhibition Grant
2012 Ostrovsky Family Fund Award
2012 Triangle Art Association workshop, NY
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2023 The Iron Road – The Drawings, Chelouche Gallery (solo)
2023 The Iron Road, Tel Aviv Museum (solo)
2019 Family portrait, Chelouche gallery, Tel Aviv (solo)
2018 On foreign made soles: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Shua Ben Ari (solo)
2018 On foreign made soles: LOOP video art fair – Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2017 To Prague with Love: Cuchifritos gallery, NYC, curator: Sanna Almajedi (solo)
2017 Diminuendo: Unisex Gallery, Brooklyn NY (solo)
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 (solo)
2013 Ira Eduardovna – Mother – FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art, Karlin
2013 Studios, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
2013 Mother- Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
2013 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)
2012 The Library room – Braverman gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)
2012 Nothing sound in it and nothing true: Ira Eduardovna, Heesoup Yoon – ArtGate gallery, NY, curator: Sylvia Kim
Selected group exhibitions
2024 Summer Seeds, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Nira Itzhaki
2024 There is no word… – Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany, curator: Dr. Fritz Emslander
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
2023 Bet Alpha – The Kira A. Princess of Prussia Foundation, Villa Mautner-Jäger, Vienna, curator: Ory Dessau
2022 Zumu – the museum on the road, station 4 – Naharia. Curator: Shua Ben Ari
2019 The principle of superposition, Arad Center for Contemporary Art, Arad, Israel, curator Gili Zaidman
2019 Zumu – the museum on the road, station 4 – Kiryat Yam. Curator: Ruthie Oppen-heim
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
2015 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
2014 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
2013 Displaced visions, Émigré photographers of the 20 century, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, curator: Nisan Perez
2013 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
2010 Volume At1 art space, Los Angeles, curator: Andrea Neustein
2010 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
2009 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
2009 Electroprojections “Fight” Japan Media Arts festival The national Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Festival Miden 2008 Contemporary video art festival, Kalamata, Greece
2008 21th Instants Video Festival Paris Cinema MK2, Paris, France
2008 21th Instants Video Festival Marseille La compagnie, Marseille, France
2008 17th International Toscana film festival VisionAria 2008 Vision art in movement
2008 Video_Dumbo, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn NY – curated by: Norene Leddy and Liz Slagus
2008 Visionaria: Galleria Agora, Piombino, Italy (catalog) The 809 International New Image Art Festival – Art Museum of the 809 International Art District, Yichang City, China
2008 Urban Screens 2008 Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
2008 Simultan Video and Media Art Festival Timisoara, Romania
2008 Oslo Screen festival Cinemateque Oslo, Norway
2008 Videoholica 08 Video Art Biennale, City Gallery Varna, Bulgaria
2008 Festival Miden 2008 Contemporary Video Art Festival, Kalamata, Greece
2008 Cartes Flux 3 Festival of Media Art, Espoo, Finland
2008 San Francisco Women Film Festival San Francisco, USA
2008 Laptopia #4 Experimental Art Festival, Levontin 7, Tel Aviv, Israel
Book
2022 The Iron Road
Selected Press
2018 Yuval Saar – On the way back home: Ira Eduardovna returns to Tashkent, Portfolio magazine, Israel
2018 Goel Pinto – Kan Culture, Interview with Ira Eduardovna, Reshet Bet radio, Israel
2018 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
2016 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
2012 Paul D’Agostino – Sounds of Near Silence, L magazine
2012 Smadar Sheffi – “Folding family” – Galleria, Haaretz, Israel
2012 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
2010 Hagit Peleg Rotem – Museum’s portrait as a domestic space – Globes Newspaper, Israel
2010 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
2009 Adriana Grant – “Ira Eduardovna’s videos play to our voyeuristic instincts” Seattle Post Intelligence
2009 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
2013 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
2008 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:
2016 School of Visual Arts Graduate Department of Media Arts, NY
2016 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2015 Parsons The New School for Design, NY
2015 Hofstra University, Hempstead NY
2014 Baruch College, NY
2012 Hunter College, NY
Collections:
Tel Aviv Museum Collection
The Israel Museum Collection
Shoken family collection
Private collections