Irina Lotarevich

www.irinalotarevich.com

Irina Lotarevich was born in Rybinsk, Russia in 1991 and immigrated to New York City as a child. She studied art at Cornell University, Hunter College, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She currently lives in Vienna, Austria and teaches metalworking at the

Angewandte (University of Applied Arts).

Lotarevich’s sculptural practice is shaped by the intersection of her own subjective experience with larger systems. Materially, she currently works primarily with metal, frequently combining sophisticated hand fabrication techniques with a sensitivity to

building spatial narratives. The minimal yet complex and specific forms of her sculptures reference architecture, bureaucracy, labor, language, and parts of her body, as well as the production and circulation conditions of the material itself.