About

Ira Eduardovna was born and raised in Uzbekistan until she immigrated to Israel at the age of ten, and later on moved to NYC. 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, The New Fund for Film and Television, PAIS Israel Lottery Council Grant for Culture and the Arts, The Ostrovsky Family Fund, Jerome foundation travel and study grant, Artis Exhibition Grant among others.
Her solo exhibitions include Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Loop Video art Fair (Barcelona, Spain), The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel) Chelouche gallery (Tel Aviv, Israel), Cuchifritos Gallery (NYC), Momenta Art (NYC), FUTURA center for contemporary Art (Prague, Czech Republic) among others. 

She participated in residency programs such as Artport, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Smack Mellon, Art Omi, Futura Center for Contemporary Art in Prague among others.

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

In 2021 she published her first graphic novel “The iron road”. She is currently working on her first feature film.

Eduardovna 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 and Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.

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