Ira Eduardovna

Ira Eduardovna was born in Uzbekistan and immigrated to Israel at the age of ten. She is a video installation artist and a filmmaker.

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: New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts grant for film and electronic media, Gesher Film Fund - for development of a script for a feature film, New Israel Fund for Film and Television script development lab, PAIS Israel Lottery Council Grant for Culture and the Arts, The Ostrovsky Family Fund, Jerome foundation travel and study grant, Artis Exhibition Grant.
Her solo exhibitions include The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel) Chelouche gallery (Tel Aviv, Israel) Loop Video art Fair (Barcelona, Spain), Cuchifritos Gallery NYC, Momenta Art (Brooklyn, NY), FUTURA center for contemporary Art (Prague, Czech Republic) among others.

She participated in residency programs such as Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Smack Mellon, Art Omi, Futura Center for Contemporary Art in Prague among others. Currently she is an artist in residence at Artport Tel Aviv (2022-2023).

Her video installations are in collections in Israel and abroad including the Israel Museum, The Tel Aviv Museum, Haaretz Collection and private collections.

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

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