Irini Kana was born in Chania. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts with teacher Panagiotis Tetsis, from where he graduated with honors in 1990. He also studied scenography with V. Vassiliadis.

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Panhellenic BOSCH Competition 1993.
Panhellenic Competition of the Chamber of Fine Arts for the exhibition in Schwetzingen, 1998.
The Municipality of Athens organized an exhibition for her in 2004, at the Melina Art Gallery (Pilopoigio).
Award of Ten 2006, Letters and Arts.
He represented Greece in the exhibitions of the Ministry of Tourism Development, in the Melbourne Museums 2009 in Beijing and in Shanghai 2008.

Her works can be found in the Ministry of Culture, the Hellenic Parliament, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Goulandris Museum in Athens and Andros, the Thracian Art and Tradition Foundation, the H. and S. Moshandreou Gallery of Contemporary Art in Messolonghi, the Municipal Gallery of Chania , at the University of Nicosia, the Hydra Museum, the National Bank, the Labor Bank, the Black Sea Bank, the AGET Heraklis collection, Interamerican, OPAP, and in private collections in Greece and abroad.