Irys Schenker received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1999. This same year she showed in the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art in the UK and at Kappatos Gallery in Athens, Greece. Other noted exhibitions have been at White Columns in NYC, the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in Snug Harbor and E31 Gallery in Athens, Greece. Irys was chosen for the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2008 with the accompanying exhibition, How Soon is Now. Her work from that show was reviewed in TimeOUT NY. Her solo exhibition, “You’re a Big Girl Now,” showed at Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ in late 2010. |