Irina Cristescu was born in 1991 in Cluj Napoca, Romania. In 2006 she moved to Switzerland to study at the Institut Le Rosey. In 2010, Irina went to New York to study at Parsons School of Design and then moved to Bucharest, where she graduated from the National University of Arts and obtained the title of Master in Visual Arts.

Irina executes portraits of humanity, it being her pleasure to explore human nature through its transient states which she identifies as universally valid in human psychology.

“It was my way of exploring our organic aspects, the untamed parts of ourselves. I played with layers so I could get closer to our natural state of being.”

While exploring her emotions, Irina noticed how society separates us from our true selves. Her works capture the play of the authenticity of the substrates of the human personality, thus creating abstract paintings that act as mirrors of the soul.

"Is our fragility broken by the mind programmed into a direction promoted to be 'correct'? What is it like to live in a black and white world where everything has a label?

Society is a constant training of judgment and framing of the environment and the inner self. As a result, we make sense of everything outside of us and bury our essence and what we really feel.”

Irina is interested in the study of the interaction between the outer and the inner world and the effect that the former has on the latter.

“Being born in a country that went through a communist regime, the rules and proper etiquette of being were a constant source of tension in my life. Notions of what is wrong and what is right, from how you should look to how you should feel, are part of our everyday reality.” cu zi.”