Ira Lombardia

Ira Lombardia (Spain, 1977) lives and works at Upstate NY where she teaches at Syracuse University. She is an artist and researcher who works across a diverse range of media such as photography, video, graphic design and sculpture. With her work she questions discourses, dynamics and rhetorics that have been assumed in the realm of contemporary art, photography and philosophy. Her production, both theoretical and practical, focuses on the transformation of the postmodern paradigm in relation to the digital visual culture.

Lombardia’s work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as the Israel Museum, (Jerusalem, IL), SCAN Project Room (London, UK), Caixa Forum (Barcelona, ES), European Photography Festival (IT), The Billboard Creative (Los Angeles, US) and the Liverpool Biennial (Liverpool, UK). In 2021, she opened her first solo exhibition in the US at SCAD Museum of Arts (Savannah, US). Lombardia’s work has been acquired by the IMJ Collection, the Israel Museum (Jerusalem, IL), the DKV Collection (ES), the Susch Museum (Zernez, CH), the Kells Collection (ES), Sammlung Pohl (Marburg, DE), the Kablanc Otazu Collection and Art Foundation (ES), and Pilar Citoler (ES).

Recently her work was highlighted at the Elles x Paris Photo programme, an initiative of the French Ministry of Culture curated by Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandoska (Centre Pompidou, Paris).