Ignacio Iturrioz (Montevideo, 1978) is an Uruguayan photographer, member of the German artist collective Schmelzofen e.V.
In 2008 he made his book Life is too short, for which he was given the National Author’s Book Award from Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo (CdF) in 2009.
His project Isla won a work scholarship from International Photography Festival San José Foto in 2014. In this same year he was a resident artist at Montevideo Museum of Contemporary Art.
He was invited to expose his project Isla by CdF in the first edition of the Montevideo Uruguay Festival de Fotografía in 2017.
In 2018, for his work Purgatorio, Iturrioz won the Uruguayan Photography Award.
In 2019 e was invited to participate in the 5th Fórum Latino-Americano de Fotografía in São Paulo.
He is currently living and working in the mountains of Swabia, Germany.