Daria Irincheeva is a female Russian-born artist of mixed heritage, with North-Western European (Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian Jewish) and Indigenous Siberian (Buryat Khongodor tribe) roots. Her work examines the traumatic legacies of the Soviet Union and contemporary Russian repression, focusing on historical erasure, state violence, and political oppression.
Irincheeva’s current oil painting project reinterprets books by intellectuals executed or imprisoned during the Great Terror (1937-1938), highlighting voices from former Soviet republics. Through the deliberate omission of graphic design elements, she symbolizes the erasure of these individuals from history. This project is deeply personal, as eight of Irincheeva’s relatives were executed by the Soviet state, and over 20 were exiled to GULAG camps.
Irincheeva holds a B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her solo exhibitions include Continuous Function at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2019, and Empty Knowledge at Christie’s Moscow in 2017, among others. Group exhibitions include the parallel program of 2019 Venice Biennale and “The Sun is gone but we still have the light” (New York, 2018), among others. In 2025, her earlier Kv T series was included in the group exhibition "So It Goes!" at the Wassaic Project. Her work has appeared in the NY Times, Frieze, Artforum, and other publications. She currently lives and works in upstate New York.
At MacDowell in 2025, Irincheeva completed 25 new oil paintings for her ongoing "Forced Omission" project, which reinterprets book covers by intellectuals killed or imprisoned during the Soviet era. Upon returning home, she was awarded a residency at MASS MoCA.
