Irina Petrakova is Russian multidisciplinary artist.

She uses different media such as objects and installations, performance, graphic art and painting. Irina works without preliminary sketches and defines her creative method as a balance between action painting and automatic writing. Her works gravitate toward an abstract language dominated by the randomness of a shapeless spot and image.

Graphic takes a significant part in Petrakova’s art. As Anatoly Osmolovsky (theorist, curator, artist, representor of Moscow Actionism) says: “The hatching wall” became Irina’s main artistic method. But you have to understand that Irina’s graphics results from withdrawal rather than from addition which means that “the hatching wall” kind of has been existing originally, and the artist withdraws from this “wall’ its parts and makes certain objects visible. The principle is very sculptural”.

Irina Petrakova was born in 1981 in Ust-Ilimsk, Siberia. Now lives and works in Moscow. In 2011 Petrakova graduated from the Institute for Problems of Contemporary art in Moscow. In 2014 she finished Anatoly Osmolovsky’s institute for contemporary art BAZA. In 2015 Irina Petrakova followed sculpture classes of Nora Schultz at Salzburg Summer Academy. Works of Irina Petrakova have been presented in several solo shows such as at Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2021), at Iragui gallery (2018), at artist run space RED (2016), ZARYA CCA (2015) as well as in numerous group shows such as at Istanbul Biennale (2017), Fragment gallery (2017), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2014), The State Tretyakov Gallery (2013), Shanghai Biennale (2012). Public collections include: Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Ruarts foundation, Moscow; ZARYA CCA, Vladivostok; Iragui gallery, Moscow.