Iris Ward Loughran




Iris Ward Loughran (she/they) is a multiracial sculptor, photographer, and urbanist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She was raised in a small costal town in the San Francisco Bay Area, 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 (New York, NY); Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, NJ); Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (Brooklyn, NY); LeRoy Neiman Gallery (New York, NY); and Heroes Gallery (New York, NY). She was a participant of the 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program hosted by Jack Shainman Gallery. They were a resident at Urbane Künste Ruhr in Dortmund, Germany in 2022. They attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2023 and Vermont Studio Center in 2025.


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Photo by Kevin Serrano 


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