Irina Kosheleva is a visual artist based in New York City, whose work combines painting, sculpture, and spatial installation to explore themes of identity and cultural memory. Using gesture, color, and form, she highlights the subtle connections between past and present, the sacred and the everyday. Her artistic journey began in Moscow, where she studied at the British Higher School of Art and Design and later taught there for five years. She pursued further studies through programs at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)’s Free Workshops and the Institute of Contemporary Art’s New Artistic Strategies, before expanding her practice in the U.S. at the Art Students League of New York, where she was awarded a merit scholarship. These diverse environments — academic, experimental, and international — shaped a sensibility that is both reflective and intuitive. Her work takes cues from cultural heritage and the routines of daily life. Grounded in both study and sensitivity, it reveals subtle narratives embedded in form, material, and gesture.