Iris Friedrich was born in Lahr in the Black Forest in 1974. From 1998 to 2002, she studied visual communication and photo design at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. She was awarded a DAAD fellowship for further artistic education in Beijing in 2005, has been represented by KOELN-ART since 2009, received a fellowship from the Ministry of Culture and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2020, and funding from the Stiftung Kulturwerk of VG Bild-Kunst in 2021. Iris Friedrich has participated in diverse exhibitions in Germany and abroad since 1993.
