Irina Polonsky

Irina Polonsky is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is grounded in painting, collage, and the tactile language of materials. For her, painting is both an investigation and a ritual — a space where the eye, mind, and hand work in unison. She works in series, creating cohesive bodies of work that carry depth and conceptual integrity, each emerging from a sustained daily practice.

Materiality lies at the heart of her process. She is drawn to the physical presence of paint, the layered density of collage, the texture of paper and canvas — finding joy in their weight, surface, and resistance. For her, working with materials is an act of intimacy, a way to inhabit the slow alchemy of colour and form.

Her works are born from the desire to touch the ungraspable — to catch the shimmer before it fades. Each piece carries an undercurrent of longing, transforming absence into presence, and silence into texture. They are never only one thing, always holding something more: a shadow, a memory, a fragment of the body’s own language.

She holds an MFA from the University of Haifa (2024), where she was awarded the President’s Prize, and a BA from the Moscow Institute of Architecture. Her works are in the collections of the University of H...

Moscow Institute of Architecture - BA Design
Haifa University (Israel) - MFA

2024 MFA Grad Show From Within, Minshar le omanut gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2024 Material , Tzafon Roasters cafe, personal exhibition, Haifa, Israel
2024 Non-existent , Babel book store , personal exhibition, Haifa , Israel
2023 Raw Matrix, Avshalom Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2021 Balls and circles, group exhibition in XL gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 Mad Holidays II, CUBE.MOSCOW, Moscow, Russia
2021 Andy Warhol and Russian Art, Sevkabel Port Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2021 Habitat, Winzavod.OPEN, Moscow, Russia
2020 Free Vagina, online exhibition in defence of Julia Tsvetkova
2019 Take off and Landing, Gallery Gate 3, Haifa, Israel
2018 Summer Seeds, Gallery Gate 3, Haifa, Israel
2017 New Wave, Culture Center Harmony, Jerusalem, Israel
2017 Solo exhibition in Maritime Museum, Käsmu, Estonia
2017 Ultraviolet , Central Artist House, Moscow, Russia
2016 On Fabric, Textile Exibition, Skolkovo Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016 Personal Exibition, Maritime Museum, Käsmu, Estonia
2016 Affordable Art Fair, Central Artist House, Moscow, Russia
2016 Group Exibition ...