Irina Annina (b. 1976) is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, graphics, and video. She graduated from the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz Academy of Art and Design, where she specialized in glass art. Soon after completing her studies, she became disillusioned with applied art and turned her practice toward painting. Annina is a member of the International Union of Artists and has participated in numerous exhibition projects internationally. Since 2020, she has been living and working in Hungary.
In her work, Annina employs techniques of classical painting while consciously limiting her visual vocabulary in order to convey complex emotional states. She is interested in creating a collection of sensations connected to immediate and fleeting impressions that nevertheless remain timeless. Her monochrome series, executed exclusively in shades of grey, demonstrates how a restrained palette can directly express a wide range of emotions linked to both visual and tactile perception.
Her works are held in the collection of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art as well as in private collections.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- Percipience, UVG Art Gallery, 2019
- Feeling of Presence, Wanderwall Gallery, 2019
Selected Group Exhibitions
- Mirror, Liszt Institute, 2025
- Mirror, Aslan Chekhoyev New Museum, 2024
- The Day After, Herman Otto Museum and Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Center, 2021
- The Line (within Art Market Budapest, together with Pacsa Art Community), 2020
- Abstraction in Avangard, Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Center, 2019
- Abstraction in Knockdown, Peterskirche, 2018
- Circus, The State Russian Museum, 2016
- Disappearing Saint Petersburg, The Center of Book and Graphics, 2008