2024  Painting On The Edge – July 29th – August 18th 2024 – Vancouver

2023  Time and Tide, Tofino Gallery of Contemporary Art, October 27 to December 1, 2023

2022  Skies in Bloom, Gallery at Mattick’s , May 2022
2021   Summer Small works exhibition, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
2021   Christmas Exhibition, Fortune Gallery, December 2021

2020  The (NotSo) Short Fest – Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, USA. DEC 7 – FEB 21, 2021

2020  Solstice, Gage Gallery, December 2020

2020  Christmas Exhibition, Gallery at Matticks, December 2020

2020  Context, Errant Art Space, Victoria, September 2020

2020  Out of the Silence, Gage Gallery, July 2020

2020  Capas Urbana’s, ACE, Fundación para el arte contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 20th to March 12th

2019   Beyond Realism, The Front Gallery, March/April 2019

2019   Poetry Exhibition, Zack Gallery Vancouver, April/May 2019

2019   Abstract Exhibition, Federation of Canadian Artists gallery Vancouver, January 2019

2018   Master of Fine Arts Graduation exhibition, Berlin, August 2018

2018   Women in Art, The Front Gallery, Edmonton, Canada, August/September 2018

2018   Sooke Fine Art Show, Sooke Canada, July 2018

2018   History as Personal Memory, Slide Room Gallery, Victoria, February 16th to March 12

2017   Excavating, The Front Gallery Edmonton, August 24 to September 16

2017   To Return Again, The Slide Room Gallery, Victoria, March 10 to April 3rd

2016    Wilson Public Art Gallery, Cheltenham, England, High Street Layers Project, January 16^th to February 21^st, with Symposium event on February 12^th, 2016

2016    Ira’s Camp Moschendorf painting was shortlisted for the British John Moores Painting prize and was exhibited at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery during the Liverpool Biennale 2016

2015    Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, December 2015

2015    Graduate Art Prize 2015, 1 of 20 UK graduates, September-December 2015, London

2015    GALERIE LEO.COPPI, Auguststrasse Berlin, Germany, BERLINER BILDER,  June to August

2015    VISA Alumni Juried Exhibition at Winchester Galleries Victoria, July 25-August 8

2015    B.A. (honors) in FINE ART Graduation Exhibition at Hardwick Campus, UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Cheltenham, England, May 29th to June 23rd

2015    B.A. (honors) in FINE ART Graduation Exhibition at Free Range Gallery Space, London, England, June 24th to June 30th

2015   “ABSTRACT SHOW” – juried group show in Vancouver,  FEDERATION OF CANADIAN ARTISTS,
April 2015, 1^st PRIZE

2015    INTERSPACE – group exhibition in the project space of the University of Gloucestershire, March

2014    ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA,  July, Summer Small Works group show, Massey Gallery

2014    “ABSTRACT SHOW” – juried group show in Vancouver, FEDERATION OF CANADIAN ARTISTS April 2014, 2nd PLACE for Ira’s HAMBURG HARBOUR painting

2014    Sooke Fine Art Show, Juried Exhibition, July 2014

2014    ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA, Massey Gallery, July 2014, Summer Small Works group show

2014    Active Member show at the FEDERATION OF CANADIAN ARTISTS Gallery in Vancouver, January 2014

2013    The Red Show at GRANVILLE FINE ART GALLERY IN VANCOUVER, February 2013

2013    Active Member show at the Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery in Vancouver, January

2013    DIPLOMA OF FINE ARTS GRADUATION EXHIBITION, Slide Room Gallery, Victoria, BC, June

2012    PAINTING ON THE EDGE juried group exhibition in Vancouver in August ($1000 award)

2012   U8 exhibition, SOPA FINE ARTS GALLERY IN KELOWNA in April 2012

2012    GRANVILLE FINE ARTS GALLERY in Vancouver, Christmas Group Exhibition, December

2012    SIDNEY FINE ART SHOW, October 12^th to 14^th, 2012, Sidney, BC, (Honourable Mention)

2012   SOOKE FINE ART SHOW, July 28th to August 6th, 2012 – (JUROR’S AWARD)

2012   1580 GALLERY IN VICTORIA in April 2012

2012   Victoria International  Airport with the ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA, July to December 2012

2011   U8 exhibition SOPA FINE ARTS GALLERY in Kelowna April 2011

2011   Sooke Fine Art Show, juried art exhibition, July/August 2011

2011   Sidney Fine Art Show, juried art exhibition, September 2011, (Honourable Mention)

2011   Victoria International Airport, November and December 2011

2011   DALES GALLERY in Victoria in December 2011

2010   Sooke Fine Art Show 2010 – juried art exhibition, July 23rd to August 1st

2010  U 8 Event at SOPA FINE ARTS GALLERY in Kelowna in April 2010

2010   Sidney Fine Art Show, juried art exhibition, September 2010

2010   AGNES BUGERA GALLERY in Edmonton, June 2010

2009  Sidney Fine Art Show. juried art exhibition in October 2009

2008  Anatomy of Greys at the SLIDE ROOM GALLERY in Victoria, October 2008

2007  Inter Alia – Installation Project at THE SLIDE ROOM GALLERY in Victoria

2020   One month residence, at ‘ACE, Fundacion para el arte contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 2020 

2016     Ira’s Camp Moschendorf painting was shortlisted for the British John Moores Painting prize and was  exhibited at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery during the Liverpool Biennale 2016

2015    Together with 19 further graduates, Ira’s work was chosen for the Graduate Art Prize 2015 in London, out of several hundred graduates from 30 UK universities

2015     1^st place at the ‘Abstract exhibition’ with my painting Alexanderplatz VIII by the Federation of Canadian Artists in Vancouver in April 2014.

2015    3 months residency in Berlin at Takt Artist Residency Programme,  January 5^th to March 31^st, 2016

2014    $ 6.000 scholarship from the BC Arts Council for my BFA studies in England

2012    Juror’s award at the Sooke Fine Art Show

2012    $ 1,000 First Prize Opus Award at the PAINTING ON THE EDGE,
Juried, International Art Show in Vancouver

2011    Honourable Mention – Sidney Fine Art Show, juried Art exhibition, Sidney BC

2011    Honourable Mention – Look Show 2011, Community Arts Council, Victoria BC

2009   Honourable Mention – Look Show 2009, Community Arts Council, Victoria BC

2021

“Salto mortale” by Sean McIntyre, Boulevard

“Ira Hoffecker: Transitions” by Christine Clark, Preview 

https://preview-art.com/preview/ira-hoffeckertransitions/

“Critic’s Picks: The Small Rain, Nature Sketch and Ira Hoffecker’s Transitions” by Mike Devlin, The Times Colonist

https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/go/critic-s-picks-the-small-rain-nature-sketch-and-ira-hoffecker-s-transitions-1.24312926

“Ira Hoffecker: Transitions”, Galleries West

https://www.gallerieswest.ca/events/transitions-0/?occ_dtstart=2021-05-01t00:00 

“Artist Statement: Transitions” Focus on Victoria

​​https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/palette/artist-statement-transitions-r182/

“Ira Hoffecker Presents Transitions” by Kate Cino, Art Openings

​​http://www.artopenings.ca/ira-hoffecker-21.html

“Where Do You Find Inspiration?” by Wendy Welch, Vancouver Island School of Art Newsletter

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Where-do-you-find-inspiration-.html?soid=1103577314272&aid=nhNht9Ls1A4

“Ira Hoffecker at Fortune Gallery” by ExhibitVic

​​​​​​https://youtu.be/BHXLR–osl

2019

“Facing the Nightmare” by Agnieszka Matejko, Galleries West

https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/facing-the-nightmare/

“Artpic: Ira Hoffecker’s Sometimes the child is silenced… at The Front Gallery” by Fish Griwkowsky, Edmonton Journal

https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/books/artpic-ira-hoffeckers-sometimes-the-child-is-silenced-at-the-front-gallery

“Colour Bursts Forth in Conjunction” by Olga Livshin, The Jewish Independent

​​http://www.jewishindependent.ca/colour-bursts-forth-in-conjuction/

2016

“Art to Collect” by Portia Priegert, Galleries West

“I try to paint almost every day – Artist Interview, Ira Hoffecker” by National Museums Liverpool

​​https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/i-try-paint-almost-every-day-artist-interview-ira-hoffecker

1 page in the Jewish Independent in June 2016

1/2 page in regional newspaper DIE GLOCKE, discussing Ira’s work and announcing the exhibition at Galerie Hoffmann Contemporary Art , March 6th to April 15th, 2016

“Exploration of Identity” by Olga Livshin, The Jewish Independent

Exploration of identity

“Ira Hoffecker: Berlin Identities” by Dolores Luber, Senior Line

2015

½ page in regional newspaper HOFER ANZEIGER, discussing Ira’s work and announcing the exhibition in the public art gallery

¼ in the HOFER ANZEIGER, regional daily newspaper in Germany, March 2015 announcing my upcoming solo exhibition in the fall and my first prize win in Vancouver at the ABSTRACT SHOW from the Federation of Canadian Artists

2013

“Imagining City Spaces” by Kylie Serebrin, Arabella

http://www.vic42.com –  a feature that was published on Vic42 in April 2013. Vic42 is an internet platform that introduces people from Victoria and other cities in BC

2012

“Meditations on Urban Context” by Aaren Madden, Focus Online

​​http://focusonline.ca/node/456

“Abstract paintings evoke urban Europe” by Robert Amos, The Times Colonist

​​http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/abstract-paintings-evoke-urban-europe-1.7829

“Ira Hoffecker at The Gallery at Mattick’s Farm” by Exhibit Vic

“Ira Hoffecker’s Abstract Mapping” by Ira Hoffecker, Art Avenue

1 page Article in monthly BOULEVARD Magazine May 2012

2011

Times Colonist, review by Robert Amos, October 15th, 2011

“Ira Hoffecker at Dales Gallery” by Exhibit Vic

2010

“Island 30”, Chek TV

Exhibit TV Victoria in April 2010, at Dales Gallery in Victoria:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVJaKjSfWc