About
Irina Zimina is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Moscow.
Painting is at the core of her practice. Irina’s artistic language brings together academic training, experience in theatrical scenography, and decorative intensity.
The artist works with the image of the body as a space of personal experience and cultural memory. She is interested in how culture shapes a person’s perception of the self and their own corporeality. In her works, visual brightness coexists with themes of vulnerability, shame, and control.
Over the course of her career, Irina Zimina has participated in more than 80 exhibitions and art projects. Her works are held in museum and gallery collections, including the M. A. Bulgakov Museum, the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery of the Russian Academy of Arts Museum and Exhibition Complex, HADŽI RUVIM Gallery, Gallery of the Theatre, and Likya Sonat Yolu Gallery. Her works are also held in private collections in Russia, Turkey, Serbia, Italy, Indonesia, and the United States.
In addition to her artistic practice, Irina is engaged in educational work, conducting master classes and seminars for emerging artists. Her educational projects have taken place in Russia, Turkey, and Serbia.
Irina Zimina was born in 1991 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
In 2021–2022, she studied at the Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art.
In 2020, she completed the Creative Workshop of Theatre and Decorative Art at the Russian Academy of Arts under the supervision of B. A. Messerer.
In 2017, she graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov at the Russian Academy of Arts, Theatre and Decorative Art Workshop of D. A. Cherbadzhi.
In 2016, she completed an internship at the Berlin University of the Arts, UdK Berlin.
In 2016, she joined the Creative Union of Artists of Russia.
Since 2015, she has been an honorary member of the Serbian Artists’ Union “Byzantium”, Belgrade.
In 2015, she became a recipient of the Presidential Scholarship.
In 2011, she graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Art College.
