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Ira Hoffecker is a German-Canadian artist who immigrated to Canada in 2004 and is now based in Victoria, Canada. She is an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.

Ira holds an MFA (2018) from Plymouth University (England) and Transart Institute, New York (USA) and a First Class Bachelor (Honours) in Fine Art (2015) from the University of Gloucestershire (England). She previously obtained a Diploma of Fine Arts (2013) from Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria (Canada).

Her work has been exhibited in solo, duo and group exhibitions in Germany, England and Canada. In 2015, Ira was one of 20 UK graduates whose work was shortlisted for the Graduate Art Prize in London. She won the first prize in the juried ‘Abstract Show 2015’ in Vancouver with her painting Alexanderplatz VIII. Her Camp Moschendorf II painting was shortlisted for the British John Moore Painting Prize 2016. The painting was also exhibited at the 2016 Liverpool Biennial.

Ira’s film Meanwhile in La La Land was chosen for the Official Selection at the Manchester Film Festival 2018 and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Back in the Box Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2017. Her video History as Personal Memory was chosen for the Official Selection in reserve for the German United Film Festival in Berlin in 2018.

Ira has completed a 3-month residency in Berlin at Takt and in 2020 in Buenos Aires at Projecto Ace. Her work continues to be promoted in various magazines, recently in Victoria’s Boulevard Magazine and New York’s New Visionary Art Magazine.