Ira Lombardía
'VOID'
Interested in the theoretical and practical implications of digital visual culture, interdisciplinary artist Ira Lombardía investigates how images affect and define our understanding of art today, questioning modes of production, distribution, and consumption. Lombardía defines herself as a “visual ecologist” who appropriates images to construct new meanings, identify connections, and reveal conflicts and contradictions. With VOID, the artist’s first solo U.S. museum exhibition, Lombardía deepens her long-standing investigation into ephemerality and the dematerialization of the object, premiering a new experiential sculpture that marks a significant expansion of her artistic process.
Interested in the theoretical and practical implications of digital visual culture, interdisciplinary artist Ira Lombardía investigates how images affect and define our understanding of art today, questioning modes of production, distribution, and consumption. Lombardía defines herself as a “visual ecologist” who appropriates images to construct new meanings, identify connections, and reveal conflicts and contradictions. With VOID, the artist’s first solo U.S. museum exhibition, Lombardía deepens her long-standing investigation into ephemerality and the dematerialization of the object, premiering a new experiential sculpture that marks a significant expansion of her artistic process.
About the artist
Ira Lombardía (b. 1977, Asturias, Spain) lives and works in Syracuse, N.Y. She has exhibited work internationally at venues such as SCAN Project Room, London; Caixa Forum, Barcelona; and The Billboard Creative, Los Angeles, as well as at international art fairs such as the Liverpool Biennial, Festival Off Photoespaña, European Photography Festival, Paris Photo, Untitled Miami, Artbo Bogota, ARCO Lisboa, ARCO Madrid, and others. Among her many awards and recognitions, Lombardía has been honored with the SCAN and La Fragua International artist residency programs. She is represented by Galeria Alarcón Criado, and her work is held by Sammlung Pohl (Germany), Susch Museum (Switzerland), Kells Collection (Spain), Kablanc Otazu Foundation (Spain), Pilar Citoler Foundation (Spain), and Font-Irvin Collection (U.K.), and in private collections in New York, Chicago, London, Sydney, and Paris.
Install Views
Programs and events
Fall into the 'VOID' at virtual gallery talk with artist Ira Lombardía
Join artist Ira Lombardía and SCAD MOA curator DJ Hellerman for a virtual conversation on Lombardía's first solo U.S. museum exhibition, VOID.
Art and architecture intersect at 'VOID' symposium with artist Ira Lombardía
Crossovers between art and architecture make practitioners of these forms innovative collaborators. Join interdisciplinary artist Ira Lombardía, SCAD MOA curator DJ Hellerman, architect Marcos Parga of Studio MAPAA, and SCAD architecture professor Maggie McManus for a conversation about transforming ideas into physical structures.
Alter artistic gestures through tech design at 'VOID' symposium with artist Ira Lombardía
In Ira Lombardía’s (b. 1977, Asturias, Spain) SCAD MOA exhibition VOID, viewers use the VOIDX app to transform the artist’s iconoclastic gestures into their own acts of creation, digitally altering the works with other images or videos.
Credits
VOID is organized by SCAD Museum of Art curator DJ Hellerman.
Museum Admission
The exhibition is free for museum members and SCAD students, faculty, and staff with a valid SCAD Card. Open to the public with the cost of museum admission.
