Bio
Irina Kosheleva is a Brooklyn-based artist working across sculpture, installation, and painting. Her practice is rooted in the life of things that have outlived their function — forms that carry the memory of a place they no longer belong to.
Each object becomes a compressed archive: a fragment detached from its structure, a gesture that persists after its context dissolves. She examines what happens to form when it is uprooted — how symbols migrate, lose their original address, and accumulate new meanings. The work is not nostalgic. It is forensic.
She studied at the British Higher School of Art and Design, where she later taught for five years, and continued her practice at the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Art Students League of New York.
Her work has been exhibited at institutions including Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, CCI Fabrika, the Museum of Moscow, and Zaryadye Media Center. In New York, recent exhibitions include two shows at Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery (2025, 2026). She is currently an artist in residence at TheMudBklyn studio through the SPACS Art residency program (April–May 2026), with a resulting exhibition at SPACS Gallery, New York, in June 2026.