VIRZHE

Maria Virzhe is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, street art, performance, and installation. Her practice examines presence, embodiment, and the relationship between individuals and urban space, framing the city as a platform for collective experience. Rooted in themes of motherhood and vulnerability, the work reflects lived experience as both subject and method.

Her ongoing project, The Walk of Tears, explores the hidden dimension of personal transformation and the complexity of the path toward success. Structured as a participatory work, it invites contributors to share gestures and narratives, creating a fluid exchange between audience, artist, and environment.

In 2020, Virzhe founded the STARS & TEARS art group in collaboration with her children, developing projects that merge personal experience with public space through shared authorship.

The practice extends into painting and the creation of physical objects that translate emotional processes into material form, alongside an expanding body of work in music and film.

Selected Exhibitions

2002 - nogaional Forum of Children's Creativity, Kaliningrad, Russia.

2003 - FLAG /group exhibition, “Kvadrat” gallery, Omsk, Russia/

2017 - SIMPLE /solo exhibition, ”Levaya noga” gallery, Omsk, Russia/

2018 - SIMPLE /solo exhibition, VIRZHE ART LAB, Los Angeles, California/

2018 - Solo exhibition /Kabbalah Center, Los Angeles, California/

2019 - SELECTION /art show, TOUCHON gallery, Los Angeles, California/

2019 - KITCHEN /solo exhibition, TOUCHON gallery, Los Angeles, California/

2020 - art show /TOUCHON gallery, Los Angeles, California/.

2020 - quarantine /installation, Venice beach< California/

2023 - "Stars and Tears" /solo exhibition, Polina Zaremba Gallery, Omsk, Russia/

2026 - LITTLE EASY gallery /opening, art show, Los Angeles, California/

2026 - OPULENCE /art show by Kourney Hunter, Los Angeles, California/