Iris Ward Loughran




Iris Ward Loughran is a multiracial sculptor, photographer, and urbanist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She was raised in a small town in Northern California and moved to New York after receiving a BA in Urban Studies and Planning from University of California San Diego. Since living in Brooklyn, Iris has held roles as a Community Organizer, Muralist, Educator, Art Handler and Fabricator, each informing her interdisciplinary artistic practice. Her art is initiated through investigations into place, where she takes photos, scavenges for objects, and makes site-responsive installations. She works in found objects, metal, and neon glass.

They have a BA in Urban Studies and Planning from University of California San Diego and an MFA in Visual arts from Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University with a full tuition scholarship. She has exhibited at Wild Project in New York, NY; Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, NJ; Williamsburg Art & Historical Center In Brooklyn, NY; LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University in New York; and Heroes Gallery in New York, NY, among others. She was a participant of the 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program hosted by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. In 2022 they were a resident at Urbane Künste Ruhr in Dortmund, Germany. In 2023 they attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Vermont Studio Center in 2025.


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