Daria Irincheeva is a Russian-born, US-based artist of mixed North-Eastern European and Indigenous Siberian heritage.

Her work examines the lingering traumas of the Soviet Union and ongoing Russian repression, addressing historical erasure, state violence, and collective memory. Her long-term project reinterprets writings by intellectuals persecuted during the Great Terror (1937–1938), echoing her own family’s history of loss and exile.

Irincheeva holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has been shown at institutions including the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Pushkin House (London), the Venice Biennale parallel program, the Albertina Museum (Vienna), and Gavin Brown’s UncleBrother (NY). A 2025 MacDowell Fellow, she has been featured in The New York Times, Frieze, and Artforum. She lives and works in Upstate New York.

Created in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Irincheeva’s diptych Bucha 1/22 and Bucha 3/22 reimagines the river running through Bucha—before and after the atrocities that took place there. Once a haven for the creative class, the town was left devastated by occupation. Through these paired works, Irincheeva confronts the fragility of safety and home, reflecting on how violence can shatter even the most peaceful landscapes.

Bucha 1/22, Bucha 3/22, (diptych), 2022

watercolor on cotton fabric, embroidered with handwoven cotton threads, black epoxy, $12,000

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