Irina Kashirova

1969 — was born in Tajikistan.

1980–1984 — Children's Art School, Leninabad (teacher Belyaeva R.G., Koroev K.G.).

1984–1987 — Workshop of the Children's Art School.

1986–1989 — studied at the Fomenko E.V. (born 1936) Workshop. Watercolorist.

1991 — graduated from the Art and Graphic Faculty of the Pedagogical Institute named after S.M. Kirov, Leninabad.

1991–1993 — teacher at the painting studio for kids in Chkalovsk.

1993–1994 — work on decorative elements (painting) of the central mosque in the city of Khujand.

1994–2015 — worked in Yamal at the Novy Urengoy Museum of Fine Arts, from 2006 to 2015 — chief curator.

1995–2015 — teacher at the Gazodobytchik Early Development Center of Gazprom PJSC. Program "Painting for kids".

2014 — member of the VTOO of the Union of Artists of Russia, the International Organization of Fine Arts AIAP UNESCO.

Since 2015 she has been living and working in St. Petersburg. Teacher of the painting studio for kids at the children's center MJ club (program "Painting for kids").

“…I love working with kids! They inspire to the fullest ... with them you learn again not to be afraid of anything, as in your childhood. There is nothing more beautiful than children's work, everything that is in painting and what all adult artists achieve, everything is in children's work up to 6 years. As a result, many successful masters come to a "childish" result. My collection of children's work has over 300 sheets from 30 years of working with toddlers.”

The artist’s works were exhibited at the All-Russian, regional exhibitions: “Faces of Russia”, Arkhangelsk, 2017, “Russian North”, Regional exhibition, Perm, 2018. Personal exhibitions were held in Novy Urengoy (2014, 2019), St. Petersburg (House Nationalities 2015, Hermitage Youth Center 2015, Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic 2019-2020, Master Gallery 2016, Yamal Representation in St. Petersburg 2016, 2019). All-Russian exhibition "Unity 2021" Nizhny Novgorod. Participant of Russian and international plein airs.

The works of Irina Kashirova are in the collection of the Museums of Yamal, the Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic, other museum and private collections in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Salekhard, Krasnodar, Volgograd, etc.), Canada (Toronto), Germany (Stuttgart), Italy (Abano-Terme), Greece, Cyprus, etc.

“... the master's work is distinguished by bright coloring, emotionality, subtle mood transfer. The temperament of the artist is most evident in the landscapes of Yamal. A riot of colors, a textured stroke, an expressive manner of painting charges the audience with its energy and mood of love for Yamal. Many of her works are based on color and tone contrasts…”

Natalia Korovina-Vitchik

“…from East to North…. Commitment to the multi-color reflection of reality, warmed up by oriental flavor in the soul, Irina's works give an interesting result. She sees the north as multicolored. The experience of a museum worker and gallery owner allows Irina to look at her work with a wide eye and critically...”

Sergey Sagitovich Aynutdinov

“… as a painter, Irina has been turning to the theme of the North for more than 10 years, inspired by the deep and bright colors of the “Edge of the Earth”. The theme of the Far North prompted an emphasis on the preservation and careful attitude to the unique culture of indigenous peoples. The North becomes a source of inspiration. Almost all of Irina's works presented in the project "Northern Flower. Yamal", created on the Yamal projects in 2012, 2014, 2016. The artist's works are based on a decorative vision of the world, she works pasty, breaking the surface of the canvas into large planes, as if forming the general way of northern life from fragments. Traditional crafts are an inseparable part of the northern culture, filling and nourishing it. The work "Upper World" depicts the space above the hearth in the plague. The smoke hole (mokoda) is the sacred part of the plague. The diagonals of the beams against the sky set the rhythmic structure of the whole work.”

Olga Alekseevna Proshkina