ievaraudsepa (at) gmail (dot) com
Born in Rīga, Latvia.
Education:
Meisterschüler*innen, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB), Ines Schaber’s class
California Institute of the Arts, MFA
Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles
University of Latvia and University of Helsinki, Philosophy, BA
Exhibitions:
2025 Bare Life, curated by Mākslas birojs and Igors Gubenko, Cēsis Art Festival, Cēsis
2025 Fever Dream, solo show, Medūza, Vilnius
2025 Tokyo Highway Scene, solo show, Riga Contemporary Art Space, Riga
2024 Superior Comfort, curated by Maximilian Schröder, Berlin
2024 M24: Meisterschüler*innen-Festival, Leipzig
2024 copy to clipboard, curated by 2:do, Berlin
2022 Letters, solo show, OxfordBerlin, Berlin
2022 Open studios, ARCUS, Moriya, Japan
2021 Material Curing, curated by Reinis Lismanis, Thames-Sides Studios Gallery, London
2021 Closed for Crisis / Take Care of Each Other, solo show, LOW, Riga
2019 Future Ghosts, curated by Vardui Sharapkhanyan, Human Resources, Los Angeles
2019 Haunts, MFA group show, curated by Aurora Tang, Track 16, JOAN, Ste 534, Los Angeles
2019 It Could Just Swallow You Up, solo show, ISSP Gallery, Riga
2019 Endless, thesis show, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles
2018 Post-Soviet Visions: image and identity in the new Eastern Europe, group show, curated by Anastasiia Fedorova and Ekow Eshun, Calvert 22 Foundation, London
2016 MIXTAPE, group show, curated by Aaron Schuman, Riga Photomonth
2014 Neighbours, group show, Riga Photomonth
Books and publications:
Pyramids, self-published, 2024
CRUISE, published by Milda Books, 2019
Features:
The series Cruise has been featured on TANK Magazine (2021), i-D (2016) and YET Magazine (2016); it has also been part of several screenings, including Just Another Photo Festival, Kolkata, India (2015), Odesa Photo Days, Odesa, Ukraine (2017) and Riga Photomonth, Riga, Latvia (2018). The book dummy has been included in group shows, including Unseen (2016), Self Publish Riga (2017), Gazebook (2017), and Fotobok Gbg (2017). CRUISE was published by Milda Books in July 2019.
Other work has been published in the Latvian Photography Yearbook (2017), and has been featured internationally, including in The Guardian (2018), Wallpaper magazine (2018), It’s Nice That (2018), Aint-Bad (2018), FK Magazine (2017) and Mākslas žurnāls (2024).
Awards, grants, residencies:
2014 - 2024 State Cultural Capital Foundation of Latvia, recipient of grants for creative work
2022 Pla(t)form 2022, Fotomuseum Winterthur
2020 - 2022 ARCUS Project, artist in residence, Moriya, Japan
2019 Futures Photography artist, Unseen, Amsterdam
2017 - 2019 Lewis Hine Merit Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts
2016 Unseen Dummy Award shortlist, Amsterdam
