Ira Lombardía (Asturias, Spain, 1977) is an artist and researcher based in New York, where she teaches at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Her artistic practice combines photography, collage, video, installation, and sculpture, creating monumental, large-scale works that engage with the surrounding space to address issues of feminism, ecology, and collectivity through a critical perspective on contemporary hyper-visuality.

Lombardía has developed a distinguished exhibition career, with both solo and group shows in internationally renowned institutions. Among her most recent solo exhibitions are Lecciones de Geometría (September 2024 – March 2025) at the CceMx in Mexico City, curated by María Santoyo with the support of AECID and PhotoEspaña; Jet Lag (2022), a Solo Project at Paris Photo Fair curated by Shoair Mavlian; and VOID (October 2020 – January 2021) at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, curated by DJ Hellerman, which marked her first solo exhibition in the United States.

Her group exhibitions include Omnímoda. La fotografía como Display (MUCAC, Málaga, 2025), Perpetuum Mobile(Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 2024), Making Visible (Harlan Levey, Brussels, 2024), A Certain Darkness(CaixaForum, Barcelona, 2018–2019), Les Nouveaux Encyclopédistes (European Photography Festival, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2017), and Not All Photographs Are Records (Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool Biennale, 2014) among others.

​

She has received major awards and fellowships, including Derivada, 6th Edition (Production Prize and Grant, Fundación Banco Santander, 2023), the Rauschenberg Emergency Grant (New York Foundation for the Arts, 2020), and the 2nd SCAN Residency (Spanish Contemporary Art Network, London, 2018). During this residency she conducted research at the Aby Warburg Institute, an experience that became a pivotal influence on her artistic trajectory. She was also awarded the PICE Mobility Grant (2019), the UCO-LF International Contemporary Photography Grant (Spain, 2015), and the Entreacto Award (Santander Bank Foundation, Spain, 2015), and was nominated for the inaugural Post-Photography Prototyping Prize (P3) organized by Fotomuseum Winterthur and the Julius Baer Foundation (Switzerland, 2017), among other recognitions.

Her work is included in prominent public and private collections such as MNCARS (Biblioteca y centro de Documentacion, Madrid) the IMJ Collection – Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel), Susch Museum (Switzerland), Colección DKV (Spain), Colección AKAR (Spain), Colección Kells (Spain), Fundación Kablanc Otazu (Spain), and Fundación Pilar Citoler (Spain), as well as private collections in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Sydney, and Paris.

Her work has been published in books such as Femmes Violences (Aline Bovard Rudaz, Editions Superscripte, Centre de la Photographie Genève, 2024) and La Furia de las Imágenes (Joan Fontcuberta, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2017). In 2020, her work was highlighted in the first edition of Paris x Elles at Paris Photo, an initiative of the French Ministry of Culture curated by Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandoska (Centre Pompidou), and is featured in the reference publication Elles x Paris Photo (Editions Textuel, Paris, 2023), which summarizes the first four editions. Her work has also appeared in leading magazines including The Brooklyn Rail (February 2025), The British Journal of Photography (2022), Fish Eye Magazine (cover feature,  Paris Photo, 2020) and Eikon Magazine (Vienna, 2014).

​

Her work is represented by Galería Alarcón Criado, with whom she participates regularly in prestigious international art fairs such as Paris Photo (France) ,Untitled Miami(USA), Artbo Bogotá (Colombia), ARCO Lisboa (Portugal), and ARCO Madrid (Spain). She also collaborates with other galleries, including Harlan Levey Projects (Brussels), which has further contributed to consolidating her international presence and recognition. With a career that integrates research, artistic creation, and teaching, Ira Lombardía has established herself as a key figure in the contemporary exploration of the relationships between art, feminism, technology, and visual culture.