IRINA STARKOVA (b.1987, Russia)
Irina’s practice includes performance, video, sculpture and VR exploring physical disenfranchisement to generate disruptive ideas of personhood and body within a post-internet narrative.
Parodying popular culture and gaming, her animations are a CGI sandwich of re-choreographed liminal characters on the edge of classification within pixilated cyber playgrounds. Within this virtual context, the subjects speak of emotional or physical phenomena from the position of rhizomatic fluidity to question creativity and freedom of expression.
Irina is a member of the Digital Maker Collective, a group of artists, designers and developers exploring the impact of living among technical objects through socially engaged work and immersive technology.
Born in Moscow in 1987, Irina has worked in London, Moscow and France. She is currently studying for a Masters in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art.
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Fragments, The Garage, London
2016 Still Lives, Erarta Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
2020 Flesh, Old Operating Theatre, London
2020 Work in Progress, Royal College of Art, London
2019 Movement, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London
2018 Unfinished, Peckham Levels, London
2018 Light Ignites our Inspiration, Asylum, London
2018 Degree Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London
2018 Production, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London
2018 Digital Immersion, Late at the Tate, Tate Modern, London
2018 Snorkel, Cookhouse Gallery Chelsea, London
2016 IN:SIGHT, Washington Green & Castle Gallery, Birmingham
2016 Queen Themed, The Tabernacle, London
2015 Griffin Gallery Open, Griffin Gallery, London
2015 Places & Faces, Rossotrudnichestvo, London
2014 Nessuno Escluso, Christie’s, Monaco
2013 Private View, Beausoleil, France
2012 Group Show, The Tap Gallery Sydney
2005 Group Show at The Commonwealth Gallery, London
Education
2019 – to date MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
2017-2018 PG Fine Art, Chelsea School of Arts, London
2005-2008 BA Philosophy, University College London
2001-2006 Exchange Student, Andriyaka Art School, Moscow
Residencies
2019 Tate Exchange Residency, Tate Modern, London
2018 Tate Exchange Residency, Tate Modern, London
Workshops and Teaching
2020 Farnham College of Art, Visiting Tutor
2019 Westminster University, Visiting Tutor
2018 Virtually Summer, British Film Institute, London
2018 Modual: Immersive Workshop, Somerset House, London
2018 to date Digital Teaching Staff Member, University of the Arts London
2017 Artist in Residence and Art Technician, The Harrodian School
Grants and Awards
2015 Griffin Gallery London, selected for Winsor & Newton Painting Prize
Conferences and Presentations
2019 “Immersive Technology and Digital Crisis,” Hobs Studio, Here East, London
2018 “Creative Hacking,” Digital Catapult event, London
2018 “Collaborative Practice and Tech Intervention,” Modual: Immersive, Somerset House
2018 “Audience and Experiment,” Tate Modern, London
2018 “Artist Talk: Creativity and Immersive Technology,” British Film Institute, London
2018 “Collaborative practices,” Chelsea College of Arts, London
