Irina Petrova

Irina Petrova is a contemporary artist whose practice explores corporeality, memory, perception, and the ways we experience the world through the body.
Irina has a professional background in Fine Arts and Art Therapy. Her experience in art education and teaching is an important part of her connection with people and her understanding of art as a space for dialogue and shared experience.
Working between figuration and abstraction, Petrova examines the relationship between inner experience and the world around us. Her work is informed by philosophy, cultural studies, personal experience, memory, and embodied perception. These different layers come together through the process of painting, where thought, physical presence, and material continuously influence one another.
Travel is an integral part of her practice. Living and working between different places allows Petrova to explore how environment, memory, and inner states shape one another. Nature is a recurring source of inspiration, though her work is not concerned with landscape as a genre, but with the emotional and psychological experience of encountering a place.
Petrova works primarily with oil and acrylic, as well as oil pastel and mixed media.

Academy of Architecture and Art at the Southern Federal University, Faculty of Art and Graphics, Fine Art. Rostov-on-Don, Russia, 2016

Advanced training "Art therapy in working with children" (2020) and "Practice of art therapy" (2021) at the Academy of Art Therapy

“The power of she”. Sadik gallery, Indonesia, Bali 2025

Warms Canvaces, Artseeker Gallery, New York, USA, 2024

Art Spectrum, art week Miami, USA, 2024

“Women: balance of the world” museum MoRa, New Jersey, USA, 2023

"Nature without recognition: is it about human blindness?" New York, USA, 2023

Solo show "In search of Harmony" studio Quesera, Seoul, South Korea, 2023

"Just summer on my mind" Art seeker gallery, Miami, USA 2023

"Fulcrum” cultural center Artishok, Moscow 2023

"Dot. Line. Space” cultural center Artishok, Moscow 2023

#TOGETHER, National Russian Museum of Decorative Arts, Moscow. 2022

Online exhibitions:
Solo show "Balance" in virtual gallery of Kuns Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, 2023

Exhibition in the Metaverse Virtual Artist Hub by The Pending. 2023