Ariel’s work addresses the physicality, indexicality, and limitations of photography in the face of the cosmic and the sublime. She draws upon photographic tools and processes to make photographs, sculptures, and installations. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally including at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Southern Utah Museum of Art, University of New Mexico Art Museum , Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 516 Arts, SRO Photo Gallery, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, and in the Pingyao International Photography Festival. She was awarded a 2025 Utah Artist Fellowship from Utah Division of Arts and Museums, named on Silver Eye Center for Photography’s national 2023 Silver List, and offered the Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Arts Award from Marshall University. Her ongoing collaborative project, from where the sun is…, was recently exhibited at UMOCA, and has received a Project Grant from the Salt Lake City Art’s Council and a Juror’s award within the 2025 Utah Statewide Annual Exhibition. Ariel holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of New Mexico and a BA in Studio Arts from Willamette University. She is currently based in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains in California.