Biography
Irina lives and works in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The artist creates artworks in a decorative style, likes to experiment with materials: mosaics, precious stones, glass, paints, texture, etc.
Exhibitions
In 2023
* Life and Death (Toronto, Canada)
*Tears and Smiles (Ontario, Canada)
*TIME (Vancouver, Canada)
*Precious (Toronto, Canada)
* Just summer in my mind (USA, Miami)
- Painting "The Dreamer" was on the cover of the exhibition catalog
In 2022 she participated in The Other Art Fair Saatchi Art in the USA.
In 2021
- Online art show at Artsy
- Vatikam online exhibition (International Association of Designers)
She has experience of solo exhibitions, such as exhibitions at the ArtMuse Contemporary Art Museum and Grace Center (Russia, St. Petersburg).
Among the 23 group exhibitions in which Irina took part, special mention should be made of:
- Online art show “Salvador Dali in the paintings of contemporary artists” (USA St.Pete Florida, Salvador Dali Museum)
- Affordable Art Fair (China, Hong Kong)
- Art Week Festival (Italy, Venice)
- Art Week Festival (Portugal, Lisbon)
Irina became the winner of the PBR Art competition, category "recycling" and presented her project at the ARTification festival (Russia, St. Petersburg).
Also, 7 paintings by the artist became laureates of Russian and international competitions.
In addition, Irina was awarded the diplomas "Best Works of 2016", "Best Works of 2019", a special diploma for creativity (International Association VATIKAM, France, Paris) and from the Luxembourg Art Prize.
The artist has publications in the following magazines: LAZIN (UK), BONART Cultural, Girona (Spain), CONTEMPORAIN (France), Woman (Russia), Objectsmag (Rivista online indipendente, Italy), Poramoralarte (Spain), The News God (USA), GlamourBuff (USA), and book You can become anyone you choose (Victo, USA).
Irina's artworks are kept in the collections of ArtMuse Contemporary Art Museum (Russia, St. Petersburg) and Art Recycling Museum (Russia, Kaluga), Ecological Museum MUMUKA (Russia, Kaliningrad).
Bast's paintings are in private collections in 28 countries.