ABOUT
Ivana Larrosa is a visual artist, performer and educator from Spain living in New York City. She creates video installations in response to spatial environments, often merging elements of fantasy, humor, and daily life into performances and photo-based objects. Larrosa is interested in conceptual strategies that have to do with the body as an object of study and a medium to approach memory, trauma, perception and architecture.
Her Love for the Arts developed while working as an art writer for the Spanish newspaper ‘Diari de Tarragona’ in 1997, culture writer of Barrios de Iruña Magazine in 1998 and as founder and creator of the photo magazine ‘Zero Zone’ in 2006.
Her work has been shown at at Art venues and Museums including Anthology Film Archives, International Center of Photography, The Exponential, Queens Museum, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Espacio Aglutinador of Havana, Plana Space in São Paulo, Project Space Kleiner Salon in Berlin, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Soler Blasco Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, and Galeria Sicart, among others. Larrosa's work is at the permanent collection of Foundations, Museums, Institutions and Collections such as Bassat Private Collection and Spanish National Museum of Sculpture.
Ivana Larrosa has received several grants such as Lluís Carulla Foundation Individual Artist Grant and Museum of Tortosa Artist in Residency, and numerous awards, including Ramon Aloy International Photographic Award and Camera Club of New York Baxter St, Annual Juried Competition.
In New York, she has curated shows for Save Art Space and Plaxall Gallery. She is a performer collaborator with the collective The Commons Choir and recently performed in Generator: Pestilence by Allied Productions at La MaMa Theater.
She is currently a dedicated NEW INC Mentor at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and working as a consultant for the Architecture & Design Film Festival of New York, where she has worked as Associate Creative Director for 3 years. In 2020 Larrosa has participated as a panelist of the Queens Arts Fund of Queens Council on the Arts, BRIO Visual Art panel of Bronx Council on the Arts, as well as a mentor of the Youthworks performance program at Brooklyn Arts Exchange.
Ivana holds a BA in Film and Media Studies from University of Navarra (Spain) and a Master of Fine Arts at Bard College-International Center of Photography (New York, 2016), where she was awarded with the ICP Director’s Scholarship and currently teaches video installation and performance.
EDUCATION
MFA Bard College - International Center of Photography. New York, NY. 2016
BA Film and Media Studies. University of Navarra. Pamplona, Spain, 1997.
Minor in Psychology. Spanish National Distance Education University, UNED. Madrid, 2004.
PERFORMANCE
2021
Carrie on, Charming Meow & Sergei. Art in Odd Places' Bravura Outbreak for The Rashid Johnson Red Stage. Organized by Creative Capital. New York, NY.
2020
Untitled (Cruelty). A solo live performance at 'The Exponential Festival' at Parallel. Brooklyn, NY.
GENERATOR: Pestilence Part 1 - A meditation on the AIDS epidemic as cultural phenomenon. Produced by Allied productions at La Mama. New York, NY.
A Remedy for Constitutional Crisis: Part 2- A public performance reading of the
U.S. Constitution organized by Maya Ciarrocchi at Smack Mellon. Brooklyn, NY.
2019
Untitled (Cruelty). A solo live performance at 'Itinerant' Performance Art Festival NYC, at Queens Museum. Queens, NY.
2018
Untitled (Cruelty). FEVER. The Plaxal Gallery. Long Island City, NY.
Daria Faïn & The Commons Choir. Sam Miller Memorial. Danspace Project, New York, NY.
2017
The Commons Choir: mayday heyday parfait. Led by choreographer Daria Faïn and poet Robert Kocik:
Gibney Dance. (American Realness PROCESS: In the Works 2018) New York.
Dancespace Project (Movement Research Festival 2017 ). New York, NY.
BRIC House Ballroom. Brooklyn, NY.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Untitled (The Colony). Online exhibition. Persona Land, NY.
2020
NY y la inspiración de la Imagen en Movimiento. Video Arte. Cortabitarte Gallery. Instalaciones en Certamen Cortos Soria, Spain.
2016
I am not your mother. ICP-Bard MFA Studio Gallery. New York, NY.
2015
Repose. Cloister of Escola Pía, III International Photo Festival Fineart Igualada.
2014
Numinous. Galeria Sicart. Barcelona.
Repose.
Museum of Tortosa,
University of Lleida,
Biennal of Olot,
Passanant Foto Festival, Spain.
Stillness. Public Library of Zaragoza.
Seny.
Renovarte. Art Festival of Sobrarbe,
Arqueological Museum of Ontinyent,
Ethnological Museum of Oliva,
Museum of Anchovy and Salt.
2013
Seny.
Soler Blasco Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum,
University Museum of Alicante,
Arqueological Museum of Ontinyent,
Ethnological Museum of Oliva,
Peniscola Castle.
2012 -10
The Ancient Power of Men's Hand.
The Carolina Asheville,
I International Photo Festival Fineart Igualada,
Museum of Rural Life.
Seny.
Diputacion de Tarragona (Tarragona County Council),
Museum of Aran Valley,
Ecomuseum of Àneu Valleys,
Ethnographic Museum of Ripoll,
Museum of Pagesia in Mataro,
Art Gallery Torre Vella of Salou City Hall, Spain.
Lagares Afines.
Gallery at The Breast Center at Hope at Asheville, NC,
Art Gallery La Gota de Leche of Logroño City Hall,
Amézola de la Mora Winery Rioja, Spain.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Digital Time Capsule - A project in collaboration with LIC-A, Culture Lab LIC, and the Queens Library at Hunters Point, part of Archive for Queens Memory Project. NY
Waiting Room. American Jewish University. Los Angeles, CA
Skin Deep and Deeper. Exhibition organized by Personaland, New York
Pride: A celebration of diversity, identity, and history. Culture Lab LIC. Curated by Orestes Gonzalez & Efrem Zelony-Mindell. Long Island City, NY.
2020
10 Under the Subway Video Art Night. World premiere on YouTube.
Night & Day. Departure Studios & Local Project. Long Island City, NY
Art in the Time of Pandemic. Exhibition organized by Personaland, New York
ICP Alumni Online Print . International Center of Photography, NY.
2019
Plàstic. Museu de La Vida Rural. L'Espluga de Francolí. Spain. Feb'19 - Jan'20
NOW is the Future. Local Project, Long Island City, NY
Constitution. Con Artist. New York.
Spirit. Online Global Village Exhibition organized by Personaland, New York
2018
Future Past: Experiments in Photography. Tracey Morgan Gallery. Asheville, N.C.
FEVER. The Plaxal Gallery. Long Island City, NY.
Perspective. Asheville Airport Gallery, N.C.
July Summer Residency Showcase. Con Artist Gallery. New York, NY.
Perspective. Asheville Airport Gallery, N.C
Connections: four visions. Umbrella Arts Gallery. Curated by Harvey Stein. New York, NY.
2017
In Search of Lost Time. Rita K. Hillman Gallery - International Center of Photography. Curated by Miles Goscha, Mohammed AlMannai and Mengwen Cao. New York, NY.
Broken Senses. 2017 Winter/Spring Flaherty NYC at Anthology Film Archives. Curated by Ruth Somalo. New York, NY.
Family. Umbrella Arts Gallery. Curated by Harvey Stein. New York, NY.
The Artists Body. Studio Duo. Curated by Justine Kurland. Long Island City, NY.
7 Under The Subway Video Art Night. The Local NY -New York; Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera -Milano, Italy; Centro Cultural PLANA –Sao Paulo, Brazil; and in Spain at Centre del Carme of Valencia, Centre Cultural i de Creació Casa Planas of Palma de Mallorca, La Casa Amarilla in Malaga, FAC. Feria de Arte en Casa in Madrid. Curated by Antonio Ortuño.Wish You Were Here 16. A.I.R. Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.
Posted to NY. Aloft Harlem - organized by Art in Flux and The Paddock Group. Curated by Michelle Le Dain and Lisa Sharp. New York, NY.
2016
The Ties that Bind. Baxter St Camera Club NY. Curated by Charlotte Cotton. New York, NY.
ALL AT ONCE. Rita K. Hillman Education Gallery, ICP, New York, NY.
Animal World. Umbrella Arts Gallery. Curated by Harvey Stein. New York, NY.
Festival SCAN OFF Tarragona. Curated by Pep Escoda. Tarragona, Spain.
2015
Sala Petita. Galeria Sicart. Curated by Ramon Sicart. Barcelona.
5 Under the Subway. The ANNEX Art Social Space and Project Space Kleiner Salon. Curated by Antonio Ortuño. New York and Berlin, Germany.
Slidefest. International Center of Photography. New York, NY.
New York Art Book Fair with Printed Matter. PS1, New York, NY.
2014
Witches, but also Wizards. Espacio Aglutinador. Curated by Sandra Ceballos.Havana, CUBA
Portfolio Showcase Vol. 7, The Center for Fine Art Photography. Curated by Alexa Becker - Kehrer Verlag and Hamidah Glasgow. Fort Collins, CO.
Kids (Not Cute). Umbrella Arts Gallery. Curated by Harvey Stein. New York, NY.
New York Art Book Fair with Printed Matter. PS1, New York, NY.
Open, International Center of Photography, LIC Studios, New York, NY.
Proximitat. Can Baste. Curated by Josep Bou. Barcelona, Spain.
Festival SCAN OFF Tarragona. Curated by Pep Escoda. Tarragona, Spain.
2013
An Imaginary Museum of Sculpture. National Museum of Sculpture. Curated by The Ministry of Culture of Spain. Valladolid, Spain.
Next, New Photograhy Visions. Castell Photography Fine Art Gallery. Curated by collector Allen Thomas Jr. and Dr. Larry Wheeler, Director of North Carolina Museum of Art. Asheville, NC
Proximitat. Institute of Studies of Lleida. Curated by Josep Bou. Lleida, Spain.
2012-2010
15th & 6th Rotating Exhibit Spotlighting Western North Carolina Artist. Art in the Airport Art Gallery .Asheville, NC.
Tell me that you love me even if it’s true (Dime que me quieres aunque sea Verdad) Contemporary Vilafranca Festival, Sicart Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
Painting Poetry, Athenaeum of Logroño. Rioja, Spain.
XXVI Youth Art Show of Rioja, Rioja Youth Institute. Rioja, Spain.
SELECTED AWARDS/ GRANTS
2018
Con Artist Collective - Artist in Residency
Save Art Space - Curator of New York Art Billboard
2015
International Center of Photography - Director's Fellowship
Honorable Mention 2015 Annual Juried Competition, Baxter St, Camera Club of New York
2014
Historical and Archaeological of Terres de l’Ebre Museum - Artist in Residence
2013
1st Prize. International Photographic Ramon Aloy Award
Passanant Produeix Passanant Foto - Production Grant
Finalist. I Photography of Sculpture International Award. Spanish National Museum of Sculpture
2011
Honorable Mention. The Aperture Light Photo of the Year 2010 Award
2010
Lluís Carulla Foundation - Individual Artist Grant
BOOKS/ PUBLICATIONS
Cosmos Trilogy (Gravity, Orbit, Eclipse) . Allied Productions & Le Petit Versailles at Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair, New York, 2021
Ginger Magazine #23. Networked Feminism Zine, 2021
BAX 30th Anniversary Recipe Book. Brooklyn Arts Exchange 2021
Emergency INDEX: an annual document of performance practice. Vol. 9. Edited by Zoe Guttenplan & Published by Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020.
now & again # 1 / #3 . Published by Minny Lee Fine Art, The Honolulu Print & Book Fair, Honolulu, 2019 and New York, 2020
Double Vision. Thesis Book. Published by International Center of Photography-Bard, New York, 2016.
After The Fact. Published by After The Fact Group, New York, 2016.
Shift Vol. 11. Published by International Center of Photography, New York, 2016.
Kids (Not Cute). Published by Umbrella Arts, 2015.
Portfolio Showcase. Vol 7. Published by The Center of Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, 2014.
Proximitat. Published by Can Basté Photo Forum, Barcelona, 2014.
Chrysalis Veils. Published by Copia Ed. Barcelona, 2013.
Repose. Published by Passanant Foto. Passanant, 2012.
PRESS
Wall Street Journal. 12/26/14
El País National Spanish Newspaper. 9/19/14
Vilafranca Television. 6/4/14.
Radio 3 National Spanish Radio - Fluido Rosa, Contemporary Art Program. 3/24/14
COLLECTIONS
Sculpture Museum of Spain. Museo Nacional de Escultura. Valladolid
International Center of Photography Library. New York.
Bassat Private Collection. Col·lecio Bassat. Barcelona
Lluis Carulla Foundation. Fundació Lluís Carulla. Barcelona
Castellon Council on the Arts. Diputación de Castelló. Valencia