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Irina Tevzadze is an artist and designer originally from the country of Georgia, currently residing in the United States. Irina's career in fine arts and fashion spans more than twenty years. She works in different traditional and digital media and her artworks and fashion garments have been exhibited and sold worldwide.

Irina holds BFA and MFA degrees from the Kutateladze State Academy of Fine Arts in Tbilisi, Georgia where early in her career she also taught fashion and art for several years.

Irina's artworks are preserved in several embassies and numerous public and private art collections in her home country, United States and internationally.

At different times in her career, Irina has worked as a designer for several high-profile European companies and has been an award winner of several prestegeous fashion design competitionsas, as well as served as a jury member for several of such competitions in the United States and abroad.

In 2005, Irina co-founded a design, communication and research company sakartvelo.com LLC and for several years she was in charge of creative as whe worked with numerous high-profile clients.

In 2009, Irina and her family moved to the United States, where she joined the faculty of the Fashion Program at Stephens College, where she taught art and fashion and served as the school's ambassador to the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), leading and supervising the development, production and submission of students' works to competitions for CFDA scholarships and other prestegeous opportunities.

In August 2019, Irina joined the Fashion Program within Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts (HIDA) at Arizona State University (ASU), which in 2022 was transformed into ASU FIDM. There, Irina led the establishment and curriculum development of the entire Fashion Design sequence, taught upper level fashion design courses, advises students and led creation and production of fashion collections and shows for six years through 2025 academic year.

All this time, Irina has always been active in both art and fashion, held several solo exhibitions and fashion shows, and participated in numerous group shows and events, regularly contributing to the cultural life wherever she happened to reside.

Since Fall 2004, Irina has been included in Who is Who in Georgian Art catalogue and was also the subject of a documentary film "Irina", September 1993, Tbilisi, Georgia - 20 minutes

Fragments from the Documentary Film "Irina" - 6 minutes