Irina is an American artist of Romanian descent. She has an MBA from Columbia University in NYC and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Southern California. She was raised in Switzerland, France, and New York where she currently resides. Growing up and living in varied environments fed her interest in and sensitivity to cultural differences and overlaps. Her work explores the harmony and tensions between desire for connection versus the reality of constant change. 
Irina has shown in the United States and Europe and is in the collections of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, in Madrid, Spain and the Pomona College Museum of Art, in Claremont, CA. - collection of Marisa Arango Berry. Her work has been exhibited at the Parrish Art Museum in Watermill, NY and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA.