Irena Aizen is a Russian artist who was born in 1962. She was raised in a family of artists and attended Yaroslavl Art College. Most of her paintings are of a human with bunny ears. She was inspired by ancient Egyptian images of half-man half-animals. While she was going towards that direction, she discovered that the hare is often a character in fairy tales and myths in many cultures. She likes to call her paintings philosophical Fairy-Tales for Adults.
Her art mostly took off when she went to Israel. Irena has had her artwork featured in prominent institutions, including the Museum of Russian Art in Jersey City, the Naive Art Museum of Latvia in Riga, the Tula Museum of Fine Arts in Russia, Galerie Natalie Boldyreff in Paris, Danielle Peleg Gallery in the United States, Tribes Fine Art Gallery, Egozi Gallery, and Art & About Gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel. Additionally, her pieces are part of private collections across the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Russia, Israel, Great Britain, and China. In 2024, her paintings started to become popular on social media.
Her paintings are trending a lot more on TikTok with the sound Red Light Green Light, popularized by the Netflix show Squid Game. People use her painting’s in posts because they give off the vibe to the situation they are using. Here are some examples!
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https://www.irenaaizen.com/about
https://arthive.com/artists/72420~Irena_Aizen
also used TikTok!
