Irina Tehrani’s artwork is intimately connected to her architectural training and practice. Her carefully constructed compositions explore ideas in series through an iterative process, inherent to architectural design.

“In my art practice, I find a more immediate and unrestricted medium of expression. Often ideas which inform my architectural work are explored on canvas and vice versa: What is boundary? What defines a space? What is home? I attempt answering these questions through visual meditations on the elemental: composition, light, dark, mass, void, form, line, surface, texture, color.” 

The idea of home, as a philosophical concept and an architectural typology, is central to the artist’s work. Her paintings and drawings are meant to live with/in the home, whether they are created for a specific space or as independent explorations.

Irina holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she was born and raised, and a Master of Advanced Architectural Design degree from Columbia University in New York. She is a licensed architect in the state of California and has lived and worked in Los Angeles for many years. 

After spending two years in Lisbon and Paris, currently Irina resides in Los Angeles where her focus continues to be on deepening her art practice.