Bio

Irina Howard is a published international visual artist based in New York City who has recently brought her portfolio to the public eye. In a short time, the artist had her art juried and was invited to exhibit at galleries in the United States and Europe. She has won multiple awards and is featured on significant art platforms, galleries, and worldwide art shows. She was selected as one of the Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art in 2022 and awarded the Oskar of Visual Arts by ArtTour International Magazine, elected for the Collector’s Choice Award 2022, honored as the Artist for the Green Planet, and won a Voice of Tomorrow Award with Contemporary Art Curator Magazine.

Irina was born and grew up in Ukraine and spent her youth in the elite cultural group committed to arts and literature, where she established her lifelong passion for the arts. She started up as a stage performer at the Kyiv Professional Chamber Theater. However, after immigrating to the United States, Irina spent decades away from the arts and felt at a standstill. Every career she explored has brought her to a purposeless life.

The middle-aged crisis motivated her to commit to a meaningful lifetime passion. She went back to school to obtain a degree in fine arts and found herself on the brightest side of her talent, exploring every art discipline. Irina graduated with honors from the City University of New York and Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences.

Her childhood was full of personal and family traumatic events. Feeling powerless amidst the injustices surrounding her, she was compelled to shout out to society with expressive drawings. Later, Irina emerged with the idea that an artist has no right to contribute any more pain to a world full of struggle and despair. This belief kept her silent for years until she could no longer carry on an overwhelming need to create.

Through her work, Irina communicates her personal or collective experiences and philosophical views expressed via visual language elements (e.g., lines, shapes, forms, textures, and colors). Patterns of Life is her current project that explores the challenges in life and their influences on the development of the human soul. The artist draws inspiration from organic texture and composes her themes by giving physical form to a conceptual idea, bridging reality and the creative realm in the form of artistic beauty and revitalizing energy, demonstrating her infinite creative state and innovation.

EXHIBITIONS

2023  TIME 2023 | International Online Group Exhibition | Exhibizone | Ontario, Canada | June – July 2023

2023  PRECIOUS 2023 | International Online Group Exhibition | Gallerium | Ontario, Canada | June – July 2023

2023  INSPIRATIONS 2023 | Group Exhibition | Exhibizone | Biafarin Artists Management Company | Ontario, Canada | April – May 2023

2023  SOLO EXHIBITION | REDWOOD ART GROUP AT ARTEXPO NY | New York, NY | March – April 2023

2023  TOKYO TOWER ART FAIR | Tokyo, Japan | March 2023

2023  FEMINA 2023 | International Women’s DayGallerium Art | Online Exhibition | Ontario, Canada | March 2023

2023  BLACK AND WHITE | 7th Annual Black & White Online Art Exhibition | Fusion Art | March – June 2023

2022-2023   FACE OF PEACE | CONTEMPORARY ART CURATOR MAGAZINE | Award and Digital Exhibition | November 2022 – February 2023

2022  FIRA INTERNACIONAL D’ART DE BARCELONA 2022 | Museu Marítim de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | November 2022

2022 5TH ANNUAL WOMEN ARTISTS | Fusion Art | Online Juried Art Exhibition | October 2022 – January 2023

2022  SOLO EXHIBITION | HMVC GALLERY NEW YORK | New York, NY

2022  OTHERS WILL LOVE, OTHERS WILL HATE | HMVC GALLERY NEW YORK | Group Exhibition | New York, NY

2022  PATTERNS ART SHOW | GREY CUBE GALLERY | Awarded Third Place | Digital Exhibition https://www.greycubegallery.com/

2022  ART SAN DIEGO | WORLD WIDE ART-ARTAVITA GALLERY | Finalist Award & Exhibition | San Diego, CA 

2022  HAMPTONS FINE ART FAIR | ARTIFACT NYC | Hamptons, NY  

2022  COLLECTOR’S CHOICE 2022 |  ART TOUR INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE | Award & Digital Exhibition | NY, NY 

2022  TOP 60 MASTERS OF 2022 | ART TOUR INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE | Award & Digital Exhibition | NY, NY   

2022  TONANTZIN A Call for Mather Earth | ART TOUR INTERNATIONAL | Digital Exhibition | NY, NY  

2022  HOPE | ARTAVITA ART GALLERY | The 50th International Online Contest | Award & Digital Exhibition | Santa Barbara, CA 

2021  ARTISTS OF THE YEAR 2021 EXHIBITION | ARTAVITA ART GALLERY | Santa Barbara, CA   

2021 ARTEXPO NYC | WORLDWIDE ART FAIR | ARTAVITA ART GALLERY | NY, NY

2021  TEXTURES & PATTERNS | LAS LAGUNA ART GALLERY | Laguna Beach, CA   

2017  SUMMER ART FESTIVAL | TOWNHALL EXHIBITION | Mount Airy, MD 

2017  THE WAY I SEE | AT THE SPOT STUDIO GALLERY | Mount Airy, MD 

2014   KINGSBOROUGH ART MUSEUM | Brooklyn, NY | Presidential Award for Excellence in Oil Painting 

2013   KINGSBOROUGH ART MUSEUM | Brooklyn, NY 

2012   KINGSBOROUGH ART MUSEUM | Brooklyn, NY 

2011   QCC ART GALLERY | Queens, NY 

AWARDS / PUBLICATIONS      

2023  ARTISTONISH VISUAL ARTS MAGAZINE | Cover, Issue 32 | Digital exhibition and publication powered by Biafarin.com | Ontario, Canada

2023 INTERNATIONAL PRIZE LEONARDO da VINCI | FONDAZIONE EFFETTO ARTE / National Museum of Science and Technology “Leonardo da Vinci” | Milan, Italy 

2023 VOICES OF TOMORROW | Artbook | Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

2023  ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE AWARD | Circle Foundation for the Arts | France | Certificate

2022  ARTISTS MAGAZINE AWARD AND GRANT | 39th Annual Art Competition | Third Place Winner

2022  THE FACES OF PEACE ART PRIZE | Contemporary Art Curator Magazine | Honorable Certificate

2022  PATTERNS ART SHOW | Awarded Third Prize | Grey Cube Gallery |  Third Prize Certificate

2022  ART TOUR INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE | Summer Special Issue | Collectors Choice Award | NYC, NY

2022  COLLECTOR’S CHOICE AWARD 2022 ArtTour International | NYC, NY | Collectors Choice Award Certificate  

2022  ART TOUR INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE | ATIM’s Top 60 Masters 2022 Issue | NYC, NY

2022  TOP 60 MASTERS OF 2022 | “Oskar of Visual Arts” Award | ArtTour International | NYC, NY | Top 60 Masters Certificate 

2022  VOICES OF TOMORROW ART AWARD | Winner of the Power of Creativity Art Prize | Contemporary Art Curator Magazine |  Voices of Tomorrow Art Award_Certificate

2022  AESTHETIC ART MAGAZINE | Issue 106 | Aesthetica Magazine | United Kingdom

2022  ART TOUR INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE Spring 2022 Issue Artists For A Green Planet | ArtTour International | USA

2022  ARTIST FOR A GREEN PLANET | Honored by ArtTour International | USA | Artist for a Green Planet_Certificate

2022  IMPORTANT WORLD ARTISTS | 5TH Edition ArtBook| Published by Worldwide Art Books | USA

2022  POWER OF CREATIVITY | ARTBOOK | Curated by the Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

2022  ART IDEAL MAGAZINE Issue 2 | Invited ArtistCircle Foundation for the Arts | France

2021  ARTJOBS.com | Awarded Artist | Artist of the Month of December| ARTJOBS.com | Worldwide

2021  SPOTLIGHT 26 | Contemporary Art Magazine| Circle Foundation for the Arts | France

 

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