Ira Eduardovna, The Iron Road, 2022, still from two channel video installation, 22 minutes. Photo by Avner Shahaf.
Artist Bio
Ira Eduardovna is a video installation artist and filmmaker. She was born and raised in Uzbekistan, and currently lives and works in New York. Eduardovna’s work reconstructs autobiographical narratives and examines themes of migration and displacement through non-linear storytelling. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2025) as well as grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Ostrovsky Family Fund, and the Jerome Foundation, among others. Her work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions and festivals at venues such as the Loop Barcelona, The Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Oi Futuro Museum (Rio de Janeiro), Museum Morsbroich (Leverkusen, Germany), The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY), The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), and FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art (Prague), among others. She received her MFA from Hunter College, New York, in 2012.