BIO
Irina Cheremisina is a photographer and mixed-media artist.
An economist of international economics by Diploma, Irina was addicted to painting, photography and handmade all her life, but found her professional call in the art sphere only in 2022, after losing her father and home in Ukraine, when it was photography that helped her survive hard moments in her life.
During her research in a new profession, Irina's works experienced a number of significant transformational changes: from commercial and decorative photography (at the very beginning) to artistic and conceptual. Now Irina works across various mixed media: digital, analog photography, art books and collages using paper, paints, textile and threads.
In two years, Irina took part in 13 international group exhibitions and received awards in international competitions. Her works have been published in the book "100 Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers", by Form.Photo, Paris.
Irina considers the physical touch to the materials she works with to be the most important when creating her works, as it helps her convey the embedded meanings and feelings in the best possible way.
The topics that Irina currently explores are: memory, identification, historical connections, research of emotional states through own experience.
ARTIST STATEMENT
In my work I combine photography and collage, and I can’t imagine myself without constant experiments.
Being a child, I was passionate about painting, handmade and geometry of nature, so I have been attracted to playing with different natural materials, paper, paints and textile.
Years after, my visual pleasure from the aesthetics of lines, shapes, textures and colours intensified dramatically. So, in my art I try to splash out my creativity and to combine everything I love.
Mixing photography and collage, colours and geometry, analog and digital, I am always looking for new ways of experimenting, as it drives my mind and helps me to deepen relationship between myself and space around.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2025 - “Echoes of the Body”, ABYSS ARTSPACE gallery, Valencia, Spain
2024 - “Memories”, ABYSS ARTSPACE gallery, Valencia, Spain
2024 – “Urban Photo Awards”, Selected photographer (Projects & Portfolios Section), Trieste, Italy
2024 – “Expressive Nature”, online exhibition, ARTDOC Photography Magazine
2024 – “Movement”, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, UK
2024 – "Dreaming Architectures", collage expo, Turin, Italy
2024 – "Llum al Mur", International Photography Festival "PhotoAlicante", Alicante
2024 – “Artist 360 Feria de Arte”, Madrid
2024 – "Mi Niño Fantástico", Valencia
2023 – “Ordinary Objects”, Decagon Gallery, online exhibition
2022 – “Light&Shadow”, Modi Art&Wine Gallery, Kyiv
2022 – “Ukrainian Beauty Saves”, International photo project, Vienna, Bremen, Riga
AWARDS
2024 - Tokyo International Foto Awards - 1 Gold, 2 Bronze, 3 Honorable Mentions
2024 - Budapest International Foto Awards, 1 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Bronze, 2 Honorable Mentions
2024 - 1st Fotonostrum Choice Awards, Honorable Mention
2024 – Chromatic Photography Awards, Honorable Mention
2024 – “Urban Photo Awards”, Selected photographer (Projects & Portfolios Section)
2024 – The 23d Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Honorable Mention
2023 – Tokyo International Foto Awards, 1 Silver, Jury TOP-5 selection
2023 – Tokyo International Foto Awards, 4 Honorable Mentions
2023 – Budapest International Foto Awards, 5 Honorable Mentions
2023 – Chromatic Photography Awards, Honorable Mention
2023 – Audience choice, Photo contest winner, Kyiv Photography School
PUBLICATIONS
2024 – Book "100 Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers"
2024 – “FotoNostrum” online magazine (winners of “The 23d Julia Margaret Cameron Awards”)
2024 – “URBAN Unveils the City and its Secrets, Vol. 10” (Selected photographers of “Urban Photo Awards”)
2024 – “Art House” magazine, special edition “Collage”
EDUCATION
2024 – MYPH School of Photography (Ukraine)
2023 – Kyiv Photography School (Ukraine), Dimitri Bogachuk
2023 – Green4.Photo Photography school, Ukraine
2004 – Donetsk National University, Master of International Economics, Ukraine