Iris Ward Loughran




Iris Ward Loughran is a multiracial sculptor, photographer, and urbanist based 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.

Iris Ward Loughran has 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. Her work has been exhibited at Wild Project (New York, NY); Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, NJ); Below Grand (New York, NY); Westlab + Gallery (Brooklyn, 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, Skowhegan School of Painting, Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, and Montello Foundation.





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Photo by Kevin Serrano